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Ben Franklin Alumnus IQE’s Compound Semiconductor on Silicon Laser Materials Enable Next-Generation Hard Disk Drive Technology
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/09/idUS44223+09-Oct-2012+HUG20121009
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Ben Franklin alumni client and incubator graduate Bio Med Sciences featured on WFMZ Channel 69
Ben Franklin alumni client and incubator graduate Bio Med Sciences’ Silon® technology blends the best properties of silicone and Teflon. Silon is utilized in new and innovative products for wound care, scar management and skin renewing technologies. The company was recently featured on WFMZ Channel 69. http://www.silon.com/bms_news/bio-med-sciences-makes-wfmz-channel-69-news-made-right-here-story/
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Governor Corbett Visits Award-Winning Ben Franklin TechVentures Business Incubator; Praises Impact on Job Creation in the Northeast
Oct. 9, 2012 Bethlehem – Governor Tom Corbett today toured the Ben Franklin Partners’ TechVentures facility, a highly successful business incubator located at Lehigh University that has helped to launch dozens of start-up companies that support thousands of jobs in Pennsylvania. “My administration has been happy to partner with Ben Franklin and Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin TechVentures Cited by Bethlehem Mayor Callahan
Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan presented Ben Franklin TechVentures® with a citation recognizing its support of the city’s entrepreneurial community and the incubator’s national awards. Mayor Callahan also recognized Lehigh University’s Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Innovation; Lehigh Valley Tech; and Pi: Partnership for Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin to Invest $260,000 In Regional Economic Development
The Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Northeastern Pennsylvania’s (BFTP/NEP) Board of Directors has approved the investment of $260,000 in support of regional economic development. BFTP/NEP’s goal is to help lead northeastern Pennsylvania to a better economic future by building partnerships that develop and apply technology for competitive advantage. To achieve this goal, Ben Franklin staff Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin TechVentures to Host Startup Weekend
Startup Weekend, a national startup competition that has spread to more than 200 cities in nearly 70 countries, is coming to the Lehigh Valley this fall. Ben Franklin TechVentures will play host to Lehigh Valley Startup Weekend on Nov. 2-4. the 54-hour event features entrepreneurs and tech talent who spend the weekend pitching and validating their startup ideas. More Continue Reading…
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Ben Franklin Client Prova Systems Posts New Job Opportunities
Field Sales Reps in PA, Boston and NYC and an Inside Sales Rep in Carbondale, PA http://www.provasys.com/Careers
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The Four Seasons of Your Start-Up…Spring
The inner dynamics of a start up…like sands through the hourglass. I spend a lot of time with start up companies. To be specific, I spend more time with start up companies than I spend with my wife. That is actually true and explains why despite 22+ years of marriage, I think I understand Continue Reading…
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Language barriers fall as Bloomsburg’s RantNetwork grows
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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 investors will experience. But that doesn’t prevent nearly every funding application summary from asking the Continue Reading…
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Incubating innovation at Bethlehem’s Spillman Farmer Architects
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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
