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An Audience, SEBIO Style

Do you have an idea and need an audience? The SEBIO Investor Forum is "the Southeast region’s premier life sciences venture capital conference, connecting emerging life science companies with potential investors in a forum that provides meaningful networking opportunities." Application deadline to present is July 10, and the application fee is $125. Could be money [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized by mcarter on May 21st, 2009

Calling LR Inventors

Have you invented something? Besides a new way to get out of washing the dishes, I mean. Thinking of inventing something? If so, you need to be at the The Arkansas Inventors Network, a local support group that helps inventors and entrepreneurs get their new products and ideas to market. The group meets monthly and [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized by mcarter on May 18th, 2009

The Business/Twitter Marriage

Here’s the scenario: you own a small business and want to get the word out. You’ve heard all the chatter about "social networks" and you’re wondering if they can help you bring customers into your business. There are plenty of examples of why the the answer to your question is "yes". Take the story of [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized by mcarter on May 18th, 2009

Startup Funding Growth?!

A shimmer of sunlight has penetrated the derecho of economic doom and gloom that seems to permeate, well, everything. For entrepreneurs, anyway. Early-stage startups, specifically. According to numbers from The Deal, the number of funds backing early-stage startups is growing. Something about VCs concentrating "on finding IT startups with limited capital needs rather than late-stage [...]

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Posted in Uncategorized by mcarter on May 13th, 2009