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September 25, 2012 \| Vol. 4, Issue 38

FEATURE

Those Freakin' Fracking Conflicting Issues: 'Hidden Costs'

September 22, 2012 | The Tennessean

It sounds like a free-market success story: a natural gas boom created by drilling company innovation, delivering a vast new source of cheap energy without the government subsidies that solar and wind power demand. But those who helped pioneer the technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, recall a different path.

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Sand Dollars from Wisconsin for Fracturing Material

Sequestration: How a Spending Stalemate Would Affect the States

September 20, 2012 | Pew States

“A self-inflicted wound” to a struggling economy. “Ham-handed cuts” nobody thought would actually happen. “The big, dumb spending cuts that no one wants.” Those are just three descriptions given to the looming federal budget reductions that are scheduled to take effect Jan. 2, 2013, unless Congress stops them.

September 22, 2012 | MedCity News

We often talk about innovation in terms of science and technology, but in today’s healthcare ecosystem, it’s just as important to innovate on the business side of things. That’s what the $250 million Harrington Project for Discovery & Development, a national initiative based at University Hospitals Case Medical Center, is trying to do

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Turning Vegas into a Hot Spot for Work?

September 20, 2012 | USA Today

Even in Vegas, this qualifies as a big bet. Hsieh, whose e-commerce powerhouse Zappos is firmly planted here, has invested $350 million of his fortune into a grand plan to revitalize downtown into a pre-eminent location for technology start-ups, co-working space and the arts. Like Detroit and other cities, Vegas is wrestling with the future of its downtown.

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The Venture Industry Five Years On? Entrepreneurs May Be Running It

September 21, 2012 | peHUB

Wealthy entrepreneurs used to buy vineyards. Now, they become venture capitalists. And they’re taking over the venture industry. Earlier this week, Formation 8, a new venture firm co-founded by Palantir Technologies’ Joe Lonsdale, revealed its new site. Yet Lonsdale is only the newest in a long line of entrepreneurs who’ve jumped headfirst into the venture industry in recent years

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

Seed Is a Four-Letter Word for Some LPs

First Round Capital Announces Dorm Room Fund in Philly

Joining the 'Crowd' May Get Easier

Colorado Startups Look to SCOR Investors through State-level Crowdfunding

Why Innovators Should Still Aim for an IPO, Not An Acquisition

Corporate Investment in U.S. Start-Ups Rises 16 Percent in Second Quarter

Sacramento's Hacker Lab Expanding to Offer Services to Startups

Austin Incubators Aiming to Help Create the 'Next-generation economy'

Startup Bus Stops in Baltimore Area to Promote Entrepreneurship

In Downtown Tampa, a One-Stop Shop for Entrepreneurs

Wichita’s Tech Start-up Scene Starting to Emerge

Toledo Venture Capital Gets State Money, but it Comes with a Warning

Business Schools Need To Start Training Entrepreneurs

Maine’s Seed Capital Program Nearly Exhausted

Economic Confidence Dips Among Entrepreneurs

No Farm Bill at All Might Be Better than a Bad Bill.

Congress to Immigrants: Give Me Your Scientists

Minnesota Immigrants Lining Up to Chase their Dreams

What Entrepreneurs Need to Know About the America Invents Act and Patent Protection

NASA Seeks Startups to Build New Space-Age Tech

How Rising Food Prices Are Impacting the World

Rethinking the Classroom: Obama’s Overhaul of Public Education

Inventing 101: Protecting Your Invention When You Need Help

Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering

STEMming the Decline of Foreign-born Tech Graduates

This Is How You Build a Tech Community

Mature Market for Online Education

California's Community Colleges Staggering During Hard Times

Economic Incentives Analyzed by Oklahoma House Committee

Medtronic Takes Hunt for New Technology to Ends of the Earth

Farmer's Daughter Reaps Riches on Drought-struck Corn

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