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NSF Sets Aside $35M for Plant-Genome Projects; ‘Unconventional Ideas’ Sought

The National Science Foundation today said it has set aside $35 million to support plant genome-research projects in 2003. And it appears that the more "unconventional" and "high-risk" they are the better. By a GenomeWeb…

A Tale of Evil Venture Capital, and a Fair Start-Up

Despite the sweeping views of Queens and Central Park, the conference room in the Midtown Manhattan law offices of Morrison & Foerster was not exactly a theatrical set. But the performance — a mock negotiation…

Good Gong: Vying for VC Face Time (What could you do in 2 minutes?)

During the era of half-baked Internet ideas that nonetheless generated millions in funding, an urgent desperation to be heard gave rise to a new kind of entrepreneur: the would-be Chuck Barris who produced true-to-form, Gong…

Group charged with developing Washington State economy

Governor announces 14-member commission to build strategy for state Two Spokane business leaders were named to the commission Wednesday: Scott Morris, senior vice president of Avista Corp. and president of Avista Utilities, will be the…

How To Structure Relationships Between A Corporation and A Start-Up:

Corporations Target Start-Ups A trend that has been building among global corporations, both leading edge and the staid brick and mortar, is their involvement with start-up companies, many hardly a fraction of their size. The…

Top 10 Tips to Prepare Corporate Minutes

Who, What, Why, Where and When – Reflect who attended the meeting; what its purpose was; why it was call; where it took place; and when it started and ended. Did You Notice – Record…

Getting Good Advice Counts for Start Ups

First of all as I began to research this topic, I went to the Internet and found 160,000 references to Small Business Advisory Committees. By far the majority of these were for governmental agencies concerned…

Bush Administration Opposes Doubling NSF, Broadening EPSCoR

The Association of American Universities has posted the text of a September 17 letter written by Rita Colwell, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), that outlines the Bush Administration’s opposition to S. 2817, a…

Log-homes firm wins contract

A $16 million contract has been awarded to Grand Teton Log Homes LLC of Nampa to build up to 50 log homes in Teton Springs in Idaho. Teton Springs is located along the Teton Range…

The Art of Multitasking

Feeling overworked? Overwhelmed? The dirty little secret of the slow-growth economy is that most of us are busier than ever: We’re doing our jobs, plus the jobs of one or two gone-but-not-replaced colleagues — and…