Interested in starting a tech start-up? Then meet up with kindred spirits Wednesday, April 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Flying Saucer in the River Market District.The April edition of the Arkansas Tech Start-ups Meet Up, and we're not talking Wonder Boys from Russellville although they're certainly welco...
From Reagan red to Clinton blue, no one could dispute that the politics of California's Silicon Valley has shifted left over the last 20 years. Patrick Ruffini's blog in The Next Right analyzes that trend and how Republicans may have a chance to seize back some momentum. Of course, he's not wit...
Venture-capitalists are playing it closer to the vest these days.National numbers are down, as released today by njbiz.com:Venture capital firms raised $4.3 billion in the first quarter of 2009 - down from $7.1 billion in the first quarter of 2008 - and the 40 funds that raised cash is the smalles...
Free and unhindered entrepreneurs can survive a recession, according to Josephine Nicholas, chief operating officer of Published Daily, a new startup tech company in Ann Arbor, Mich. Published Daily's aim is to help professionals generate more referral business. Nicholas has relea...
Thirty-second spots promoting Innovate Arkansas are coming to a TV near you. Specifically, KATV, Channel 7, in Little Rock. The promotional spots will begin airing on April 15 and run through April 26. You can catch them on Daybreak, Good Morning America, ABC News Nightline and KATV News at 5.Once t...
Jeff Amerine has issued a research paper on open-source software and its use as a business model. Amerine is a seven-time serial entrepreneur, staff consultant for Innovate Arkansas, and currently serves as Technology Licensing Officer and adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of A...
Entrepreneurship-development expert Michelle Stockman of Arkansas Capital Corp. offers a lesson on protecting the intellectual property that goes along with start-ups. She writes on The City Wire about the importance of copyrighting that intellectual property.Here's an excerpt: "Whether the bus...
Mike Masnick at techdirt thinks patents are overrated. In fact, he thinks execution trumps patents every time when it comes to leading start-ups to success.He blogs that if you're talking to a VC who demands a patent to invest, you might be better served by looking elsewhere. Here's a snippet on why...
Science-fiction fans will remember Hal 9000 from the Space Odyssey movies and books. Hal represented what folks in the late '60s and '70s imagined a supercomputer would be like in the future. We've not yet caught up to that world, but we're working on it. Quantum computers are a step closer to reali...
Lawrence Ebert - patent lawyer, smart guy, self promoter - concludes that taxpayers are not venture capitalists. Here's an excerpt from his IPBiz blog:IPBiz notes that Iverson's remark is dead-on: taxpayers are not venture capitalists.IPBiz notes additionally that California taxpayers were misled...
