April 12, 2013
When looking for investors, entrepreneurs used to have a tendency to sign with the first VC who came through the door with money. Today, that’s…
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November 2, 2012
Hurricane Sandy devastated the Mid-Atlantic region early this week, leaving flooding, power outages, gas shortages and battered houses and landscapes up and down the east…
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September 28, 2012
The municipal bond market is a thicket of data that can be outdated and doesn’t conform to a standard format, leaving investment firms to spend…
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September 26, 2012
Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Anyone can come up with a good idea. What separates ideas from businesses—and success—is execution. Consider Thomas Edison.…
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September 21, 2012
The patent fights that have erupted this year—Apple versus Samsung, Yahoo versus Facebook—aren’t limited to big, established companies. A recent Reuters report draws attention to…
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September 18, 2012
When I started in the healthcare field more than 25 years ago, the only thing that a healthcare IT startup needed was a good idea — a new technology, maybe,…
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September 6, 2012
The need to innovate and improve the healthcare system is greater than ever before, creating a number of opportunities and challenges for entrepreneurs in healthcare…
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July 13, 2012
After 11 years at Progressive Insurance, Steve McKay knew insurance inside and out, including many of the industry’s shortfalls. Steve realized that there were significant…
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On average, Safeguard Scientifics evaluates more than a thousand business plans each year—that’s 20 business plans per week. Last year, we chose to partner with…
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