FEATURE
South Dakota Sees Innovation as Job Growth Catalyst
January 13, 2013 | Sioux Falls Argus Leader
If higher education and economic development officials are right, they’re almost certainly the first wave in a research-driven surge that will create jobs and businesses, increase wages and persuade the state’s best and brightest to remain here in South Dakota. Last month, the Board of Regents took the latest step in its effort to marry area university research to product and technology commercialization, approving the creation of a nonprofit corporation to develop an 80-acre research park at the northwest edge of Sioux Falls.
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Will SEC’s New Rules Be a Boon for Start-ups, a Risk for Investors?
January 15, 2013 | Washington Post
The ads may start coming in the next few months through e-mail, on billboards, even via a passing reference on Facebook — companies looking to give you a chance to invest on the ground floor of a start-up that could hit it big. The tantalizing offers may be legitimate or pie-in-the-sky schemes, and that’s the messy reality that federal regulators must address as they craft new rules that will fundamentally change how private offers are marketed to potential investors.
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