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When 'Friending' Becomes a Source of Start-Up Funds

Social networking is pretty good for keeping abreast of far-flung friends. Could it work for entrepreneurs looking for investors?

 

CAPCOs resurface in proposal by 3 GOP Assemblymen

Three Assembly Republicans have unveiled a new venture capital plan that would once again welcome participation from certified capital companies, or CAPCOs - the controversial out-of-state firms previously entrusted with investing millions of taxpayer dollars in a poorly drafted, weakly monitored program to boost young companies and create jobs

 

America Invents Act: Patent Overhaul Becomes Law

The United States Senate voted 89-9 in September to pass legislation to make sweeping changes to the U.S. patent system, culminating a six-year effort on patent reform. President Obama quickly signed the bill into law on September 16th.

 

Innovations: More efficient motion

The earliest accounts of the manual wheelchair exist in documents from the sixth century. Surprisingly, the model used back then doesn’t look too much different than the one that wheelchair-bound individuals use today. For Jim Maerzke, president of Kenosha-based Procubed LLC, that is a concern and one he hopes to correct with the company’s Linear to Rotary Motion (LRM) conversion mechanism.

 

Author, Joan Lloyd

Articles written by Joan Lloyd, Joan Lloyd & Associates

 

Our No. 1 problem: Our region continues to lose private-sector jobs at an alarming rate.

Our region continues to lose private-sector jobs at an alarming rate. There is no greater solution to poverty than job creatio