Stefan Schneider, who writes for a Sun Microsystems blog on how to connect start-ups, posts this week week about how to work with entrepreneurs. Many of the tips center around what the traits Schneider attributes to this passionate breed of innovator: Entrepreneurs have a vision Entrepreneurs know where they want to take their enterprise Entrepreneurs [...]

There’s lots of ways you can interact with Innovate Arkansas, including this very blog. But we’ve added yet another point of contact for the growing number of you who are addicted to online networking and social media. Innovate Arkansas is now on LinkedIn, the popular professional networking site you can join for free here. Right [...]

Echoing some of the optimistic statements we heard at last month’s Venture Forum Conference is this piece from Forbes magazine that says recessions are usually great times to start a small business, and that this recession might be better than most: Recessions are arguably the best time to start a business. Certainly the roster of [...]