The biggest economic problem in America is the lack of jobs. The rate of job destruction for the past 15 years, mostly in large multi-national corporations, is much greater than the rate of job creation, mostly coming from established technology companies that are over three years old.If the...

Since 1933, private companies have had an avenue of raising funds called a self-underwriting, or a direct corporate private offering, but it has not been widely used as a method for raising capital. In a self-underwriting, the company issues securities directly to investors, without the benefit...

At the State Science & Technology Institute's September conference in Portland, Thomas Vass, of the Private Capital Market, Inc., is going to address the conference on how the new Regulation D 506(c) rules can promote regional economic growth. His presentation is titled “How Economic...

In his recent discussion of regional innovation systems (RIS), Philip Cooke outlines the two starkly different interpretations of regional innovation systems. (Regional Innovation Systems, Asymmetric Knowledge and the Legacies of Learning, Draft 2007). He notes in his review, "Clearly, there are...

Part of the reason why the technological capabilities of the internet have not already solved the age-old problems of small companies who need capital is that the technology innovations of the internet have outpaced the conception of the business model that would be required to take advantage of...