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Author: Gerry Smith

Source: Huffington Post

Interest: By appearances alone, this startup looks and feels like a movie set version of Silicon Valley. The co-founder is a 22-year-old college dropout who wears flip-flops, drinks Red Bull and gives exuberant high-fives to his staff. The office has a pool table, a foosball table and growlers of beer in the corner. Young engineers in t-shirts write thousands of lines of computer code, sometimes past midnight.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/new-york-startups_n_1671160.html

Author: SARAH ARMSTRONG

Source: http://www.theeagle.com

Interest: A proposal led by a Texas A&M University chemist, Dr. Hongcai “Joe” Zhou, was awarded a $3 million grant through the Department of Energy this week to develop natural-gas storage technology aimed at commercializing the fuel for passenger vehicles. The proposal was one of 13 selected nationwide to share in a $30 million grant aimed at promoting natural gas energy research, and is a collaborative project involving General Motors, Research Triangle Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laborato

Link: http://www.theeagle.com/article/20120714/BC0103/120719785/1006/BC0103&slId=1

Author: Hannah Long

Source: SF Gate

Interest: Berkeley’s Skydeck, a 10,000-square foot office space in the penthouse of the city’s tallest building, offers stunning views to inspire the 14 startup teams that it houses. Each startup team includes current or recently graduated Cal students, and their projects span from iPhone apps to medical devices to innovative new computer software. Location, it seems, is important for the success of these new businesses, which appreciate the Skydeck facilities and their prime spot in Downtown Berkeley for

Link: http://blog.sfgate.com/inberkeley/2012/06/25/in-berkeley-startups-benefit-from-university-on-their-doorstep/

Author: Emily Parkhurst

Source: Puget Sound Business Journal

Interest: Promising startup companies spinning out of the University of Washington and other Washington state universities will soon see a welcome infusion of cash thanks to a variety of local investors. A university-focused venture fund called The W Fund had its official launch Wednesday with $20 million to be invested in university startups over the next four years. The money is coming from left over Stimulus Act funds, UW donations, area venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and law firms.

Link: http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2012/06/20/20m-w-fund-will-support-university.html

Author: Molly Armbrister

Source: Northern Colorado Business Report

Interest: Crowdfunding is still a relatively new idea in the world of business, but a few fresh regulations promise to turn it into the latest rage – one that comes with both high expectations and concerns. When Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act earlier this year with bipartisan support, the legislation included provisions that allow small businesses to raise money online.

Link: http://www.ncbr.com/article/20120713/EDITION/120719965

Author: Kelly Faircloth

Source: BetaBeat

Interest: Harvard Gets Schooled: As Techies Flock to Stanford, MIT, Even Penn, Crimson Goes Green With Envy. Can Ivy leaguers groomed for success navigate the failure-friendly tech economy?

Link: http://betabeat.com/2012/07/harvard-tech-boom-silicon-alley-valley-crimson-mit-stanford/

Author: Nicole Denny

Source: VOXXI Blogs

Interest: The recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Start-ups (JOBS) Act opens new doors for entrepreneurs seeking capital. Small businesses and start-ups will no longer have to rely solely on banks, venture capitalists and angel investors to finance their companies.

Link: http://voxxi.com/capital-crowdfunding/

Author: Russell C. Smith and Michael Foster

Source: Huffington Post

Interest: In an interlinked world, where services and products are usually paid for through digital means than with hard currency, a new form of financially helping and promoting start-ups and small businesses has taken hold, and grows stronger each passing month. The phenomenon of crowdfunding has taken off, and shows no sign of slowing down. Start-ups and people with a business or product worth supporting ask to be supplied with funds from the commons.

Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-c-smith/small-business-cash-mobs_b_1660721.html

Author: http://www.innovationamerica.us

Source: http://www.innovationamerica.us

Interest: U.S. venture capital firms raised $5.91 billion in the second quarter, but the total went to just 38 funds, underscoring the continuing trend of concentrating cash in the hands of top funds.

Link: http://www.innovationamerica.us/index.php/innovation-daily/22738-us-venture-firms-raise-591-billion-in-second-quarter-reuters?utm_source=innovation-daily---your-daily-newsletter-highlighting-global-innovation-news-and-trends&utm_medium=gazetty&utm_campaig

Author: TIM DEVANEY AND TOM STEIN·

Source: http://www.innovationamerica.us

Interest: The top startup accelerators in the world - programs like TechStars and Y Combinator - receive a couple thousand applications for just a handful of spots each session. It’s harder to get into one than Harvard or Stanford. So how do you do it? You could Google “how to get into a top accelerator” and see what advice you find. Or, better, you could pick the brain of a recent graduate. Trouble is, those guys are busy trying to grow their companies. They don’t have a lot of time to sit down for a ch

Link: http://www.innovationamerica.us/index.php/innovation-daily/22718-get-your-startup-into-a-top-accelerator-4-insider-tips?utm_source=innovation-daily---your-daily-newsletter-highlighting-global-innovation-news-and-trends&utm_medium=gazetty&utm_campaign=07-1

Author: J.D. Harrison

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com

Interest: Start-up crowdfunds political ads: Social Teeth has brought crowdfunding to the political campaign process, allowing users to upload independently produced campaigns to which others can then submit donations. If the advertisement reaches a pre-set funding goal, Social Teeth buys the necessary air time.

Link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-small-business/post/get-started-obama-urges-extension-of-tax-cuts-new-start-up-crowdfunds-political-ads/2012/07/09/gJQAmRG7YW_blog.html

Author: LAURA A. SCHOPPE

Source: http://techcrunch.com

Interest: On May 22nd, Sens. Moran and Warner were joined by Sens. Rubio and Coons in introducing Startup Act 2.0, a revised version of legislation proposed last December that contained questionable provisions to allow university professors to choose their own agents to help transfer their technology rather than be tied to their home university’s technology transfer office (TTO)—the so-called free agency provision.

Link: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/07/startup-act-2-0-free-agency-is-still-there-still-a-problem/

Author: Muncie Voice

Source: Muncie Voice

Interest: Crowdfunding is an online money-raising strategy that began as a way for the public to donate small amounts of money, often through social networking websites, to help artists, musicians, filmmakers and other creative people finance their projects. Through the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, small businesses and entrepreneurs will be able to tap into the “crowd” in search of investments to finance their business ventures.

Link: http://muncievoice.com/4832/crowdfunding-for-small-businesses-coming-soon/

Author: PRWeb

Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Interest: Petition Congress for tax breaks on the middle class and to accelerate job creation in the United States. We the People urge Congress to provide tax breaks to the middle class. Crowdfunding investors should have the right to immediately deduct the amount of their crowdfunding investments. These investments go straight into job-creating small businesses in the United States.

Link: http://www.sfgate.com/business/prweb/article/Crowdfunding-Tax-Break-Petition-Initial-Crowd-3685524.php

Author: Alex Nixon

Source: TRIB LIVE NEWS

Interest: A Pittsburgh-based venture capital firm set up a $100 million fund that will invest about half its money in early-stage technology companies in Western Pennsylvania. Draper Triangle Partners, which has invested about $125 million in technology startups since 1999 through two other funds, focuses on providing money to Pennsylvania and Ohio startup companies in the medical- and information-technology fields.

Link: http://triblive.com/news/2157360-74/million-companies-inc-venture-fund-money-technology-draper-early-pittsburgh

Author: ANDREW GUENTHER

Source: valpolife.com

Interest: Breathing a sigh of relief as he left the presentation room, Andrew Guenther, a local student from Washington Township High School, says he was highly impressed with the program at Purdue Research Park. This past week, Guenther, along with one other student from the Valparaiso-area, attended the Purdue Research Park High School Entrepreneurship Academy. This year marked the 6th year of the academy and boasted 50 of the most business-savvy incoming high school juniors and seniors in Indiana.

Link: http://www.valpolife.com/index.php/community/education/17383-washington-township-student-recommends-purdue-program

Author: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Source: knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Interest: Leading thinkers, from President Barack Obama to Thomas Friedman, argue that innovation is key to improving the United States economy, now and in the future. If that is the case, how do we prepare young people to become innovators? That is the question Tony Wagner, Harvard University's first innovation education fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center, asks in his new book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World.

Link: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=3040

Author: CATHERINE CLIFFORD

Source: http://news.terra.com

Interest: The implementation of the JOBS Act is going to be delayed because a government agency can't meet a deadline. The longer it takes the government to get all the provisions of the law finalized, the longer entrepreneurs have to wait to benefit from the law. The JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act was passed in April. Some portions of the law were effective immediately, while others required analysis and rulemaking by the Securities and Exchange Commission first.

Link: http://news.terra.com/sec-to-miss-jobs-act-deadline,9b381bb8b8948310VgnVCM5000009ccceb0aRCRD.html

Author: digitalburg.com

Source: Missouri News

Interest: State Rep. Denny Hoskins, R-Warrensburg, saw his legislation to clarify the intent of a vital and targeted tax deduction to create new jobs signed into law on Wednesday, June 27.

Link: http://center.ncet2.org/index.php?option=com_comprofiler&task=userProfile&is_cb=1&user=203421&tab_n=links&Itemid=

Author: Lorie Hailey

Source: The Lane Report

Interest: The 1.29 square mile development will include nine buildings dedicated to engineering and applied sciences research and development, as well as five buildings for commercialization incubators to assist moving research technology and product development to the marketplace. It is located within the university’s Belknap Campus and on the recently obtained Kentucky Trailer factory site.

Link: http://www.lanereport.com/7646/2012/06/state-approves-tax-increment-financing-1-1-billion-uofl-research-park/