Ben Franklin Technology Partners News- OraSure Receives Federal Contract for Rapid Oral Fluid Pan-SARS-Coronavirus In-home Self-test
- PA Manufacturing Call to Action Portal
- Watch the Webinar: “PRIMA: Why Medical Product Development Starts at Commercialization”
- Watch the Webinar – “Talk to Ben: Our Investors Respond to COVID-19”
- Hero’s Kafe in TechVentures Pivots to Help AHA Residents
- Venture News from PR Newswire
- Update on the Volvo Group's Financial Reporting 2020
- Revised Proposals on Dividend, Incentive Program and Fees to the Board of Directors
- Securitas Signs New Credit Facility
- DriveNets and Tellence to Double Bucharest R&D Team
- El equipo culinario de china hace una gran demostración en IKA/Olimpiadas culinarias
- Chinesische Kochnationalmannschaft legt bei der IKA/Olympiade der Köche einen großartigen Auftritt hin
- L'équipe culinaire nationale de la Chine réalise un spectacle prodigieux aux Olympiades culinaires IKA
- Trina Solar Vertex modules take Middle East solar market into the era of 500W+ output
- Everise enables Work at Home (W@H) transitions for Companies during Covid-19 pandemic; recruits thousands to support new business
- U.S. Housing Markets Vulnerable To Coronavirus Impact Clustered In Northeast And Florida
- News from the Venture World
- Quiz: Can You Name These Biblical Figures? September 12, 2019
- Quiz: Can We Guess Your Education Level From The U.S. States You Know? September 3, 2019
- Quiz: Can We Guess Your Education Level Based On Your Sports History Knowledge? September 13, 2019
- Quiz: Can You Guess What Tool This Is? September 5, 2019
- Quiz: Can You Name All These Junk Foods? August 28, 2019
- Venture News from BizJournals
- Central Ohio banks exposed to $739M in small-business loans outside the stimulus, SBA guarantees
- Coronavirus hit to Greater Washington's economy bigger than initially projected
- One of Pittsburgh's biggest banks closing this branch — is it yours?
- Alabama small businesses can apply for emergency relief through TruFund $5M fund
- SA-area lenders exposed to $157 in small-business loans outside the stimulus, SBA guarantees
- Bankers to small businesses: Don't do these things if you want to qualify for SBA loan relief
- As Wells Fargo closes loan window on SBA relief program, 'the fear is palpable'
- Pittsburgh Technology Council debuts help desk so members can capitalize on Paycheck Protection Program
- Next on tap for Illinois craft brewers: barrels and barrels of troubled loans
- Sacramento loan recipients remain hopeful as they face a daunting future
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 →