There are some bright lights in the 2009 economic sky. The intensity of B2B networking is increasing at New Business Minnesota, easily outpacing 2009.
Every month we run a networking event for new businesses called a Startup Meetup. In 2008, we averaged 60 to 80 people who would gather at a bar and exchange business cards, talk about each others’ businesses, [...]
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Networking is Hot, Hot, Hot
March 16, 2009
A Startup Stimulus Plan?
January 12, 2009
A recent letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal pointed out how proposed economic stimulus packages coming out of Washington fail to address the potential of stimulating the startup market.
The letter writer, Eugene Severens of Annapolis, Md., addressed comments made by Sen. Judd Gregg’s , who wrote in a column that most jobs in America [...]
Predicting the Future Through a Rearview Mirror
December 2, 2008
The science of economics has broken new ground. Einstein would approve. Time is not what us mortals think it to be. Alfred the great said time can warp and fold in on itself.
It now appears that economist have found the same to be true in their world. As a team of researchers approached light speed, time [...]