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Entrepreneurs Hear the Drumbeat Of Utah Gov. Leavitt’s Investment Campaign

SANDY — About 50 scientists and entrepreneurs who came to the Larry Miller Entrepreneurial Center on Thursday to learn how to move their discoveries to the marketplace found themselves drafted as the newest foot soldiers…

Outsiders help Carnegie Mellon U get products out of ideas

Innovation does little good for consumers — or for Pittsburgh’s economic future — if it remains in the laboratory or classroom. By: Donald I Hammonds Pittsburgh Post Gazette In order to speed the "tech transfer"…

Internet pathfinder leading battle against barriers to innovation

Want some face time with Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and David Farber? Carl Malamud has a raffle he’d like you to enter. By Dan Gillmor Mercury News Technology Columnist You don’t have to send money,…

SBA’s Main Lending Program Faces Deep Cut for Fiscal 2003

The Small Business Administration’s main lending program, hostage to a squabble between legislators and the Bush Administration, could be cut in half just as an apparent economic recovery sends entrepreneurs scrambling for loans to fund…

Environment Friendly: Research focuses on biodegradable box

ALBANY — TUCKED AWAY, a gallop across the freeway from Golden Gate Fields, the Western Regional Research Center is easy to overlook. By Alec Rosenberg Business Writer, (If anywone knows the contact info for a…

Who Says the Startup Is Dead?

Young companies with a hot technology and a promising customer base still drive VCs wild. You could hear a lot more from these seven startups before they’re through. By: Scott Herhold Business 2.0 When Mark…

Region has an unusual tax history

WASHINGTON HAS a sales tax and no income tax. Oregon has an income tax and no sales tax. And when the voters of each state have been asked if they’d like a taste of the…

Tech start-ups get back to basics- Changes in stock-option accounting-board scrutiny-and scrutiny of business practices

SAN FRANCISCO — High-tech start-ups are tiptoeing through a financial minefield to avoid a repeat of the Enron fiasco. By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Executives, investors and academics are rethinking basic concepts on such issues…

What It Takes Now -Even with a hot product, a realistic business plan, and managerial discipline, the road ahead is no freeway

On a late Friday afternoon in an industrial park in Hayward, California, across the San Francisco Bay from Silicon Valley, the weekly cocktail blast, an anachronism at most surviving tech companies, has started at Glimmerglass…

Tapping the Wisdom of Advisory Committees

Starting a business is daunting and typically requires a significant amount of knowledge in many areas including; technology, manufacturing, marketing, finance, sales and management. By Dan Mitchell, Executive Director of ACE-Net (The high school and…

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