Sep 11
New post on: National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Sanford and the University of Central Florida are hoping that start-up companies take advantage of a new “business incubator” that officially opened in the city’s downtown today.
Sanford plans to spend $54,000 annually to lease space in the Welaka building on First Street. UCF will provide a handful of staffers to run the center, which will offer low-cost rent and networking opportunities to entrepreneurs who can prove that their business will bring 20 jobs to the area in the next five years.
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Sep 11
New post on: National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Applied Wireless Local Area Network has landed contracts such as designing and installing the free wireless Internet service in the Crystal City, Va., business district. And Jonathan Walker Sr., CEO of the Rockville Innovation Center incubator company, wants more.
Walker is among the 38 executives in a new training program that aims to help him and other military veterans who own businesses win more government contracts. The program was to start Thursday in Bethesda.
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Sep 11
New post on: National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) September 11, 2009 — CRE Commerce, the software developer of CRE Secure.com, the first fully compliant cloud-based payment security system, announces today that it has been accepted as a full member of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC). ATDC is a startup accelerator at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) that helps Georgia technology entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. The ATDC provides recognition, resources and support to Georgia based start-up organizations bringing new solutions and budding technologies to the market place.
“We look for emerging companies that are offering new and innovative solutions to solve various technological needs,” said David Sung, Startup Catalyst and Seed Capital Fund Manager. He continued, “CRE Commerce has demonstrated true innovation to fill a market need with the recent launch of CRE Secure, a Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant Security-as-a-Service offering to protect cardholder transactions made in any web-based application from malicious attacks which compromise credit cardholders’ privacy and security.”
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Sep 11
New post on: Lovell Chronicle
The Lovell Town Council gathered for a brief meeting last Thursday, Sept. 3, to hold a public hearing and consider a resolution for a grant to remodel the Lovell Inc. economic development building to establish a business incubator.
Meeting at Town Hall at 5 p.m., the council first opened a public hearing to take comments on the town’s application for a Business Ready Community Grant through the Wyoming Business Council.
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Sep 11
New post on: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
WASHINGTON, September 10, 2009 – President Barack Obama today announced his intent to nominate Harris Sherman as Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Sherman will serve with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
“For decades, Harris Sherman has been dedicated to conserving and improving the environment in Colorado and beyond,” said Vilsack. “It would be a privilege to have a public servant like Harris join the USDA leadership team to help carry out President Obama’s vision for protecting the natural resources we need for a healthy and prosperous America.”
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Sep 11
New post on: Mercury News
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Increasing California’s use of renewable energy would seem like a relatively simple goal, but it has become one of the hottest legislative debates as lawmakers rush to finish their business for the year.
Democrats are pushing two bills that would require utilities to get a third of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020. It would be the most aggressive such standard in the nation.
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Sep 11
New post on: National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
A discussion on regulating venture capitalists is building up as new legislative proposals in Congress would require private pools of investment capital to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The objectives of such legislation are to protect the public from abuses and to limit further risks to the financial system.
In a guest blog for growthology.org (“Regulating Venture Capitalists? The Right Case and the Wrong One”), investor, writer, and entrepreneur Paul Kedrosky says: “Regulate them if you take the principled position that they are a source of systemic risks; don’t regulate them if they are not.” According to the author, financial market regulation should be driven by risk and assets, not by title. Since venture capitalists do not engage in systemically risky activities, do not usually have leverage, do not use complex financial derivatives and are not tightly intertwined into the banking system, they are not a source of systemic risk and should not be regulated.
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Sep 11
New post on: National Business Incubation Association (NBIA)
Leaders, take heed: There really might be no time like the present to launch a new product or service.
“This is a time when a lot of businesses are hunkering down,” said Chuck Bamford, a professor of entrepreneurship at Queens University of Charlotte and business consultant. “Typical competitors are not looking to do something new or different. … Providing you can financially afford it, take this as an opportunity to test out ideas and try to be innovative.”
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Sep 11
New post on: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
WASHINGTON, Sept., 10, 2009 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of $17.5 million in community facilities projects that are being funded immediately with federal funds provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that President Obama signed into law in February. Altogether, USDA has announced nearly $252.5 million in Recovery Act funding for community facility projects to date.
“Facilities such as libraries, public buildings and community centers bring vitality to small towns and cities and these Recovery Act investments will benefit people throughout the country,” Vilsack said. “The Obama Administration is committed to strengthening communities in rural areas and these investments will help further that goal.”
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Sep 11
New post on: Fortune Brainstorm Tech
On Pier 96 on San Francisco Bay, a dirty, smelly leviathan of a machine roars and vibrates as it organizes 750 tons of refuse each day into neat cubes of plastic, paper, and metal.
It may look crude, but this three-story-high knot of conveyors, computers, bins, and gears is a central part of San Francisco’s growing effort to use technology and ingenuity as the most innovative companies do: to cut costs, solve problems, and improve life for customers (or in this case, citizens).
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