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- MEGA appoints David McLaughlin as Compliance Manager
- Enteral Feeding Devices Market Worth $4.4 Billion by 2025 - Exclusive Report by MarketsandMarkets™
- InventHelp Inventor Develops Safety Accessory for Disabled Vehicles (BTM-2766)
- Preeminent Private Equity Partner Michael Cochran Joins Kilpatrick Townsend
- ABMS Announces Progressive Leave Policy for Residents and Fellows
- InventHelp Inventor Develops Convenient and Effective Sun Visor Extension (KSC-1489)
- InventHelp Inventor Develops Accessory to Secure Children's Shoelaces (AAT-4441)
- Samsung and Microsoft transform real estate and smart property management
- Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan Provides $100,000 in Grants to Support Nutrition for Southern Californians During COVID-19 Pandemic
- National Survey Finds Surprisingly Strong Preferences for In-Person Conferences Over Virtual Ones
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- Report: Wells Fargo layoffs could be in tens of thousands
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- State bill would establish California public bank for coronavirus relief
- Money Roundup: Local banks slow to join Main Street Lending Program; South Florida companies post big Q2 stock gains
- Insights from a bank president: How banks are evolving to improve your experience
- Report: Wells Fargo layoffs could be in tens of thousands
- How PPP loans helped accounting firm Briggs & Veselka Co. and its clients during Covid-19
- Star's parent has new, hedge fund owner
- Report: Wells Fargo layoffs could be in tens of thousands
- AMC signs financing deal giving it space to fight pandemic
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 →