Ben Franklin Technology Partners News- UBMe Launches Revolutionary Online Ordering and Curbside Communication Product for Restaurants
- 7 Philadelphia-Area Companies Make Deloitte’s List of 500 Fastest-Growing Tech Firms
- GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF $50,000 ANNOUNCED IN BEN FRANKLIN’S BIG IDEA CONTEST!
- RealLIST Engineers 2020: Meet 21 Influential Technologists Building a Better Philadelphia
- Venture Idol Program Book Available Online
- Venture News from PR Newswire
- UScellular Champions the Next Generation of Heroes as The Future of Good
- L'événement UMKM EXPO(RT) Brilianpreneur 2020 offre une tribune mondiale à plus de 400 MPME indonésiennes de premier plan
- Jewellery & Gem ASEAN Bangkok to debut in November 2021
- Else Nutrition Reports Third Quarter 2020 Results
- La Conferencia Mundial de Diseño Industrial 2020 y la ceremonia de entrega de premios a la Excelencia en Diseño Industrial de China se llevaron a cabo en Yantai
- AJC Praises Slovenia's Designation of Hezbollah as Terrorist Organization
- 2020 GCHERA World Agriculture Prize Award Ceremony is held in Nanjing Agricultural University, Prize awarded to two laureates from China and the United States
- Lucerne Capital lehnt formelles Angebot von Next Private zur Übernahme von Altice Europe ab
- Venzee Technologies Provides Corporate Update
- Quectel elige el módem Qualcomm 212 LTE IoT para integrarlo a su módulo BC660K-GL
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- How Truist, Wells Fargo and First Citizens are navigating the surge in Covid-19 cases
- Zoom sales up fourfold as pandemic keeps workers at home
- Huntington upgrading ATM fleet across seven states
- Scioto Peninsula development lands Burgess & Niple Inc. as anchor tenant
- Bay Area business lender TMC Community Capital debuts small business recovery loan program
- Small businesses ramp up PPP loan forgiveness requests — but the SBA still lags behind
- Pete Castillejos to be named president of Mortgage Bankers Association of Hawaii
- Baltimore-area public companies see stocks surge in November, look to end year on positive note
- How Charlotte's largest banks are navigating the surge in Covid-19 cases
- Mylo sees opportunity in Lincoln Financial Group financial planning partnership
Category Archives: Tech Based Economic Development
The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up Begin in the Spring
In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s been about 9 months since I posted anything…time to get busy! While I’m working on some new stuff, I thought I’d re-post this since it’s, well…you know, Spring. I spend a lot of time with … Continue reading
The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Autumn Begins! (reprise)
(Originally posted in 2012…thought of it as I picked my last tomato of the season yesterday!) The temperature outside my window last night dipped to 44, the crickets have stopped chirping and my wife told me that she “can’t manage … Continue reading
My Podcast with SSTI – Ben Franklin wins National Entrepreneurial Capacity Builder of the Year 2012
We were delighted to win this award last year and had a chance to talk about it with Phillip Battle of SSTI. SSTI is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving government-industry programs that encourage economic growth through the … Continue reading
The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Winter
If you’ve been reading along in this 4-part series of the evolution of your start-up, you may be expecting that Winter is the end of the line. You may be thinking that somehow I’m going to wrap up the series with a … Continue reading
Entrepreneurship…Highway of the Future!
I’d like to suggest a new way for governments to look at seed stage technology company funding. I’d like to suggest that state governments in particular think about funding seed stage tech companies in the same way that they … Continue reading
Let Us Begin with the Beginning
And so, in conclusion, we project that our exit will occur on July 30, 2019. Perhaps the only aspect of your business’s future that is less certain than your 3rd year EBITDA, is the financial exit that you and your … Continue reading
Q. Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? A. To Get to a Real Incubator.
Yesterday I received an email from an entrepreneur who wrote: “I am launching a startup in the mobile/social media/sales & e-payments/arts & networking arena this summer and am looking to get into an accelerator.” Rather than try to figure out what … Continue reading
What Erich Brenn Can Teach Us About Funding of Start-Ups
Who remembers Erich Brenn? In these blog posts, I’ve occasionally tried to understand, and explain, the business world I see by comparing it to famous people you’ve probably never heard of. We’ve previously talked about Don Ho and Jim Riggleman. And … Continue reading
Should VC’s Be More Like Lumberjacks?
According to this Small Business Trends post, only 10% of all VC investment goes into seed and early stage companies. That is up from only about 5% in the mid-2000’s, but well below the 15-25% range that existed between 1980 … Continue reading
Ladies and Gentlemen…the Next President of the United States…Alexander Hamilton!
I woke up this morning from a dream which was set in the late 1700’s. I believe it was 1796, because I was presenting to an enormous room full of people and the banners hanging declared “Welcome to the Federalist … Continue reading →