This weekend, as many of us enjoy a three-day holiday weekend and do so in many innovative ways, let’s welcome in the unofficial start of summer and have fun with family and friends. By all means. But let’s make the time on Monday to remember those whose ultimate sacrifices afford us the opportunity to do it.

Acumen Holdings came out this week with the announcement of a major “do-good” project. In conjunction with Razorback Athletics, it is organizing an event to pack in excess of 2 million meals for Haiti relief in less than 24 hours!

The BioVentures initiative at UAMS held its fourth-annual Private Equity Roundtable May 13-14 in Little Rock. The forum allowed BioVenture’s biotech startups to pitch their technologies and services to national venture capitalists.

Incredible. That best describes the results from this year’s Donald W. Reynolds TriState Business Plan Competition in Las Vegas.