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Don’t Bring Me Angel Investors. Bring Me Hero Investors.
In case you haven’t seen the headlines, let me deliver some bad news to you. You’re not going to like it, but it’s time you hear it too. The United States is no longer great at spurring entrepreneurial innovation and part of the blame lies with the angels (investors, that is) among us. Access to start-up-stage capital has Continue Reading…
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Entrepreneurial Quarks: The Elementary Particle of the American Economy
Some of you may have recently read about the Higgs boson particle and how its potentially confirmed existence would explain how anything with mass (i.e., everything that exists) is built. Some of you may have also recently read about how President Obama doesn’t feel that entrepreneurs actually built their businesses, but that the businesses were Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Technology Partner Innovation Works Seeks Funding Proposals for PA-based Companies, University Research in Electronics and Robotics
Proposals being accepted for developments in digital multimedia, digital networking, robotic applications Innovation Works (IW), the Ben Franklin Technology Partner of Southwestern PA, a statewide economic development organization that supports technology commercialization and company growth through innovation, will award up to $800,000 in technology commercialization funding to universities, early-stage and/or established companies based in Pennsylvania. Continue Reading…
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American Independence: The Greatest Entrepreneurial Venture Ever
It is July, 1774. You own about 600 acres of farmland. You essentially run a medium -sized agricultural business and employ some 60 people. You have four children and a pregnant wife. Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia and others are discussing a multi-colony gathering to consider making a unified statement on behalf of all the Continue Reading…
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OraSure Technologies, Inc. Receives USFDA Approval
Ben Franklin alumni client OraSure Technologies Inc. of Bethlehem Receives USFDA Approval for OraQuick In-Home HIV Test for sale directly to consumers in the over-the-counter market. http://bit.ly/Lk0M7d
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July, 2012
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