Ben Franklin Technology Partners News- Venture News from PR Newswire
- Solar & Renewable Energy Pioneer Kingo Announces $8.0 Million Series B Financing Round
- Revolutionary Learning Game Company Lightneer Lands Seed Funding at $5M
- VentureMed Group Raises $15 Million Series B Equity Financing
- Crowdfunding Success of OYO Fitness's DoubleFlex Gym Spreads Globally
- Filld Secures $9.65M in Additional Funding Led by Shea Ventures
- Horizon Technology Finance Provides $5 Million Venture Loan Facility to WebLinc
- Aytu BioScience, Inc. Announces $11.5 Million Private Placement
- Flo Reaches 10M MAU and Raises $5M in Series A to Advance Women's Health
- SoundCloud Secures Significant Investment Led by The Raine Group and Temasek
- True Green Capital Management Successfully Closes Latest Fund Reaching Hard Cap Of $350 Million
- News from the Venture World
- Breakingviews: Why Benchmark May Want to Cash Out of Uber August 15, 2017
- CellSavers changes name to Puls, raises $25 million in private funding August 15, 2017
- If You Don't Want to Be Fired From Your Startup, Founders Should Remember These 3 Things August 15, 2017
- Former Dragons' Den star Bruce Croxon closes first venture fund after difficult start August 15, 2017
- Pritzker Group Private Capital Adds New Vice President to Services Team August 15, 2017
- Venture News from BizJournals
- Austin biotech company lands on Nasdaq with fresh $60 million
- San Antonio financial adviser raises $15M from investors
- Wells Fargo makes sweeping changes to its board
- Bankers, long fed up with regs, see relief in baby steps
- Wells Fargo makes sweeping changes to its board
- RLJ Lodging Trust shareholders sign off on FelCor acquisition, creating a $7B company
- ‘Authentic’ leadership style guides Emily Robinson
- Wendi Dominguez: Taking a risk on a dream
- Ellen Valde: ‘Welcoming’ Denver vibe
- Wells Fargo makes sweeping changes to its board
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
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 →