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MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition Winner Will Open Up Carbohydrate-based Drug Discovery

Media reports say the recovery may be underway: the students were ready at The MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition. This is no lighthearted extracurricular; contest alumni are worth millions–a number of former teams have gone public…

Getting an Idea to Market

What is an entrepreneur? The definition, according to Oxford American Dictionary, is a person who organizes and manages a commercial undertaking, especially one involving commercial risk. Risk is the operative word. Having a great idea…

New Wave of Entrepreneurs Runs Start-Ups With Restraint

Are start-ups cool again? Alexandria software firm BND Group Inc. launched last week. There was no news release, no music, no logo-clad trinkets or star-studded galas. The four company executives celebrated with drinks at a…

Simple Ways to collect demographic data

Many retail storeowners grow green with envy when reading about the sophisticated techniques that larger companies use to gather information about customers. NFIB.com It’s true that gathering demographic information takes a little effort, but when…

How Great Companies Tame Technology

They begin with a disciplined business plan. And then they bring in high tech to make it better In 1997, I conducted a research interview with Ken Iverson, the CEO who led Nucor from obscurity…

McLaughlin Research institute seeks $3 million

McLaughlin eyes Congress for expansion With a little help from Congress and its national board, the McLaughlin Research Institute is looking for $3 million to renovate, expand and hire more scientists. By PETER JOHNSON Tribune…

New Methods of Management Can Boost Employees’ Morale

When executives discuss the tenor of business these days they invariably use words like "stressful," "lean" and "tough." While an economic recovery beckons, orders for products and services are still hard to come by and…

The Economic Impact of Research Parks: An Arizona Example

Generating $48.7 million in tax revenues to local and state governments and 5,949 direct jobs, the 31 tenants of the University of Arizona Science & Technology Park had an estimated direct impact in excess of…

Companies Must Prepare For ‘E-Discovery’

Litigation in the electronic age is fundamentally different from 20, or even 10 years ago, experts say. The culprit – an exponential increase in the number of virtual "documents" stored in countless hard drives is…

Denver urged to sweeten pot for firms on the move

Expert: Quality of life not enough to pull in businesses Denver lags behind other cities in providing incentives to attract and retain jobs, according to a report presented Thursday to the Metro Denver Network. By…

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