Category Archives: Tech Based Economic Development

The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up Begin in the Spring

Posted on May 30, 2014 by

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 →

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The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Autumn Begins! (reprise)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by

(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 →

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My Podcast with SSTI – Ben Franklin wins National Entrepreneurial Capacity Builder of the Year 2012

Posted on April 4, 2013 by

  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 →

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The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Winter

Posted on November 5, 2012 by

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 →

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Ladies and Gentlemen…the Next President of the United States…Alexander Hamilton!

Posted on August 29, 2012 by

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 →

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Entrepreneurship…Highway of the Future!

Posted on June 25, 2012 by

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 →

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Let Us Begin with the Beginning

Posted on June 19, 2012 by

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 →

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