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- Mussel Polymers Developing Treatment for Tooth Sensitivity
- TechCelerator at Ben Franklin is hosting a Virtual Pitch Event!
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- Essity launches Issviva - a new brand for women+ experiencing menopause
- Opus expands its global footprint with a brand-new development and delivery center in Hyderabad
- Essity launches Issviva - a new brand for women+ experiencing menopause
- Storytel's streaming revenue slightly above forecast for Q3 2022
- Invitation to Stora Enso's Q3 2022 results webcast on 21 October 2022
- David Mills to be appointed new Chief Financial Officer for Hexagon
- Andy Warhol, Wayne Gretzky, Tina Turner and other collectibles in Las Vegas NFT Auction
- T.E.S.T and Hi cheese Co. to Sell "NOZON," World's First Magnetic Hanger for Photographing Clothes to Make Apparel Photos Simple and Beautiful for Everyone
- Medit wins four consecutive patent lawsuits against 3Shape
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- Suns' sale expected to be among the most expensive of any NBA franchise
- Bank of Hawaii announces executive promotions in finance division
- Harbert Management Corp. fund secures $905M in infrastructure investments
- Oakworth Bank prepares for accelerated regional growth
- Bank 34 aims to become 'premier community bank' after moving HQ to Scottsdale
- Norwest Equity Partners relocating from IDS Center to RBC Gateway Tower next year
- How family-owned businesses in Milwaukee made it through the pandemic
- Dollar Bank nation's 6th-largest net branch opener
- Prosperity Bancshares Inc. announces board of directors shakeup
- Economic outlook: Employers plan to stay creative to attract and grow talent
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
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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 →