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Ben Franklin Technology Partners News
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- Lehigh Valley Gets High Marks for its High-Tech Economy
- Coded by Kids is Bringing an Inclusive Lens to the Mentor Connect Founders Program
- Ken Okrepkie to Appear on Keystone Edition: Business – Capital Connections
- After a Pandemic Growth Spurt, COVID-19 Test Maker Biomeme is Moving its HQ to North Broad and Looking to the Future
Venture News from PR Newswire
- CGTN: From well-educated students to radicalized extremists in Xinjiang
- CGTN: How are jailed extremists treated in Xinjiang?
- More Than 100 Business Leaders Join Call To Discuss Non-Partisan Action Against Restrictive Voting Law Proposals
- ROSEN, TRUSTED INVESTOR COUNSEL, Encourages Canoo Inc. f/k/a Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. IV Investors to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline - GOEV
- SOS INVESTOR NOTICE: ROSEN, TRUSTED NATIONAL TRIAL COUNSEL, Encourages SOS Limited Investors with Losses to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline - SOS
- ROSEN, NATIONALLY REGARDED INVESTOR COUNSEL, Encourages Kadmon Holdings, Inc. Investors to Secure Counsel Before Important Deadline - KDMN
- ROOT INVESTOR NOTICE: ROSEN, NATIONAL TRIAL COUNSEL, Encourages Root, Inc. Investors with Large Losses to Secure Counsel Before Important May 18 Deadline in Securities Class Action - ROOT
- Pets play important role in easing children's loneliness and stress intensified by virtual schooling in lockdown
- Global Online Wig Store UNice Announces the Opening of its Membership System
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Venture News from BizJournals
- DFW entrepreneur looks to start aerospace investing business
- Women of Influence 2021: Chabre Vickers, Wells Fargo
- Indianapolis-based wealth management firm brings on first San Antonio team
- The week in bankruptcies: Futurum Communications Corp., The Donut House Inc. and more
- After valuable test, CSI Leasing posts record year in face of Covid-19
- 'A smorgasbord of programs' — How Colorado's SBA office is balancing so many relief funds
- The week in Valley bankruptcies: Gilbert MH LLC, Peaks Fitness LLC and 4 more
- Form D Friday: Dallas firm raises $70 million fund
- M&A dealmaking has reached a fever pitch in '21 despite pandemic
- Del Norte Credit Union breaks ground on Española branch
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Build Your Companies…With Good Boards
Most of the new founders I’ve ever met roll their eyes when I suggest that they form an advisory board. One of the main reasons people found their own companies is to have supreme magisterial control over their empire. They … Continue reading
The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Summertime
Ah, summer. Margaritas by the pool. A little Kenny Chesney on the patio. Wearing flip flops to BJ’s (wait, that’s a different post!) But this is not life during summer inside a start-up company. It is certainly good news if you’re fortunate … Continue reading
SBIR/STTR…Defense of a Government Acronym (part 1)
Many of you may not be familiar with SBIR/STTR. The quickest explanation is that there are two ways that your federal government invests in advanced technology. One way they do so is by owning their own laboratories. The National Renewable … Continue reading
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Have Big VC Funds Become a League of Their Own?
I needed to read this story twice. http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/is-late-stage-the-new-early/ There are so many implications that I’m glad TechCrunch plans to follow up on it. They chronicle a handful of funds that are investing $100’s of millions in companies that probably don’t … Continue reading
Ben Franklin incubator needs more space
Nice coverage of our TechVentures expansion…LV start-up economy is thriving http://www.mcall.com/business/outlook/mc-outlook-allentown-tech-2-20110312,0,661194.story
Can Humanity Be Saved From Instant Replay?
Global life is increasingly obsessed with instant replay of all types. In the pre-digital days, the extent of instant replay for use in judging actions and words by people, was largely limited to newspaper editorial pages. If enough readers read … Continue reading →