Ask the Investor, with Jeff Stinson (Each week, Jeff Stinson, executive director of the angel-investor firm Fund for Arkansas’ Future, will answer your questions about VCs, entrepreneurs, funding and start-ups in Arkansas. Submit questions for next week’s column through Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or via email at jeff@arkansasfund.com. You can also leave questions in comments below.) [...]

Charlie Cook at UAMS BioVentures, an IA research partner, offered some great tips in response to the first installment of Jeff Amerine’s Techpreneurship blog that will appear on Thursdays in INOV8. Cook offered his “top 10 takeaways” for techpreneurs from a recent panel chaired by Janis Machala of the University of Washington Tech Transfer Office: [...]

Entrepreneurs want to know the real stories behind successful startups, the hits AND the misses. Not just the high points. Is it more helpful to hear about the low points experienced by investors and entrepreneurs and how they overcame them? Does IA need to bring in more of these folks to talk about what they [...]

It’s Arkansas Tech Startup Meetup time again….The group will meet Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 6:30 p.m. from the Flying Saucer in the River Market. This month’s session is titled “There’s Gold in Them Hills.” Group spokesman Dustin Henderson of MeritBuilder provides the lowdown: It is that time again… time for all us warriors against the [...]