Ben Franklin Technology Partners News- U.S. Department of Commerce Grants $300,000 to 1855 Capital Project
- It’s Happening: Benjamin’s Desk Merges With 1776
- RISE OF THE REST® Pitch Competition Winner is a Ben Franklin Portfolio Company – Device Events!
- The Finalists in Ben Franklin’s BIG IDEA Contest Have Been Announced!
- LifeAire Systems Announces Collaboration with G-CON Manufacturing
- Venture News from PR Newswire
- European Venture Capital Deal Value Nears Record Highs, Despite Fewer Deals Overall
- Renaisscent, a Waterless Smart Diffuser that Allows for Complete Scent Customization in an Instant, Launches on Indiegogo
- MycoTech Closes a $42M Series B With Even More "A-List" Food Investors, Signs Lease On An 86,000 Sq Ft Facility in Colorado
- The Blinc Group successfully closes first financing round
- Mubadala launches venture capital business; opens its first U.S. location in San Francisco
- New Fund Targets Large, Late-Stage Venture-Backed "Unicorns"
- Maxogen Group LLC with support from WeFund Health successfully closed a financing round
- Healthcare Investment Funds Set Industry-Breaking Commitment to Cannabis Sector
- Forty Seven Inc. Completes $75 Million Series B Financing
- Floris Capital: A New High for Cannabis Opportunities
- News from the Venture World
- Pohowalla joins Cascadia Capital October 19, 2017
- Why the world's biggest tech fund isn't investing at home yet October 18, 2017
- Duo Security raises $70 million at a valuation north of $1 billion October 18, 2017
- The most secretive startup in tech just raised another $500 million October 18, 2017
- Dedicated Lanes On I-5 For Self-Driving Cars Get Ear Of Washington State Officials October 18, 2017
- Venture News from BizJournals
- 6 things to consider for financing the purchase of a small business
- How to ace your accelerator application
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- Why banks ask for a personal guarantee before a loan
- How do ACH payments and the ACH network work?
- Your business loan checklist
- Would a lockbox create benefits for my business?
- Why banks ask for a personal guarantee before a loan
- Your business loan checklist
- Hawaii ranks 27th on tax competitiveness, study says
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 →