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- Landscaping And Gardening Services Market size to grow by USD 6.60 Bn |BrightView Holdings Inc. and Chapel Valley Landscape Co. emerge as Key Contributors |Technavio
- Brightstar Capital Partners Combines ERC and Oasis Systems to Advance Customer Mission Success in Aerospace, Defense and Cyberspace
- International consortium to advance decarbonisation of the aviation sector
- Molecular Sieves Market Size to Grow by USD 514.6 Mn| 43% of the growth to originate from APAC| Technavio
- LOTTE HOTEL HANOI et SÉOUL reçoivent les honneurs des « 2022 Travellers' Choice Awards » de Tripadvisor
- LOTTE HOTEL HANOI y SEOUL reciben los máximos galardones de losTripadvisor '2022 Travellers' Choice Awards'
- LOTTE HOTEL HANOI und SEOUL erhalten Top-Auszeichnungen von Tripadvisor „2022 Travellersʼ Choice Awards"
- Brii Biosciences to be Added to MSCI China Small Cap Index
- SHAREHOLDER ALERT: Weiss Law Investigates PCSB Financial Corporation
- Statement by the U.S. Conference of Mayors on Uvalde Shooting
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- Pennsylvania banks see profit decline in first quarter as headwinds appear 'likely'
- Lawmakers take aim at SBA PPP, EIDL fraud
- Profit falls, loans slip 1Q for Pennsylvania banks
- Icahn Enterprises completes tender offer for natural gas firm with Colorado pipeline business
- Colorado's 5 largest public companies saw 143% — or $4.2B — in market value erased this year
- Podcast: Apollo Bank's Eddy Arriola on community banks' impact, cryptocurrency and diversity in banking
- There won’t be a recession, but here's how businesses can weather the storm, Fifth Third chief investment strategist says
- Lakeland credit union partners with AI lending platform
- Austin Telco seeks a new CEO
- Baird closes acquisition of $18B firm Hefren-Tillotson, adds Kim Tillotson Fleming as vice chair
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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
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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 →