Ben Franklin Technology Partners News- New Incubation Video Posted by Scranton Chamber’s IGNITE
- New Inside the Incubators Video by Scranton Chamber’s IGNITE
- Avisi Technologies Eyes Goal of Human Trials with $1M National Science Foundation Grant
- Scranton Chamber’s IGNITE Posts New Entrepreneurship Video
- Nine More PA Companies Just Received Funding from Ben Franklin Technology Partners!
- Venture News from PR Newswire
- Johnson & Johnson startet globale Phase 3-Zulassungsstudie für Janssens COVID-19-Impfstoffkandidaten
- Verizon, AT&T Agree to Pay $116 Million to Settle California Whistleblower Case
- Flyers Rights Among Chorus Of Stakeholders Objecting To FAA's Proposed 737 MAX Changes
- Pomerantz Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action against Nano-X Imaging Ltd. and Certain Officers - NNOX
- "I Can't Breathe" Said Black Manteca Man Allegedly Killed by Medical Negligence at Kaiser Hospital
- California Hospital Association: 'FightFluTogether' Campaign Encourages Californians to Get Vaccinated Against the Flu
- NWN Supports Spinal Cord Injury Recovery As 33 Foundation Hosts Annual Fundraiser
- RightCapital and Allianz Life Announce Partnership
- Advantech Partners with Imprivata® to Validate Medical Tablets and PCs for Increased Data Security in Healthcare
- Josh Crayton Named New Director of Business Development at WindCom Services
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- Venture News from BizJournals
- Small Business Awards 2020 Micro Winner: Dovly Inc.
- Moneta expands to Kansas City area, its second big move in 18 months
- 2020 Brick by Brick winners announced
- City's PPP partnership saves more than 800 jobs at small businesses
- Rise of the Rest pivots during Covid-19 to virtual pitch competition that tackles racial equity
- Small business may face PPP loan-forgiveness hurdles, interest payments
- Moneta expands westward, its second big move in 18 months
- Cascadia Capital helps clients weather crisis by offering advice, insights
- Huntington, Chase rule the roost in Columbus banking, but Bank of America is growing
- Cambridge fintech raises $50M, makes two acquisitions
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 →