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After two consecutive years of year-over-year first-quarter increases in business formations, the number of new businesses created during the first three months of 2013 fell nearly 4 percent compared with the first quarter of 2012, Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis announced Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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The latest group of fledgling entrepreneurs from the Betaspring startup accelerator are scheduled to present their companies to a sold-out crowd of more than 300 investors, business leaders and other entrepreneurs Thursday night at the accelerator’s Chestnut Street headquarters.
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By PBN Staff
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The 2013 edition of the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition announced its winners Tuesday afternoon at The Garage, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce’s exposition dedicated to identifying and inspiring high-growth companies in the Ocean State.
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By PBN Staff
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Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd. announced Tuesday that it was opening the KLR Emerging Business Center in its North Main offices to help lend support and guidance to startups and emerging businesses in the Ocean State.
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By PBN Staff
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The Founders League, a group connecting Rhode Island’s start-up community by offering space and programming for entrepreneurs, has announced that its six-month launch phase has ended, and that 100 new memberships are now available.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |
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When Julie Sygiel and Eunice Png were undergraduates in 2008, they did what many Brown University students do in their entrepreneurship class. They developed a product to sell. It took four years, but the Sexy Period line of underwear is generating interest in Rhode Island and internationally.
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Kelly L. Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 5/28/12 |
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The R.I. Economic Development Corporation has commissioned a forensic audit of 38 Studios LLC to learn how Curt Schilling’s beleaguered video game company ran out of money and how much the former pitcher has put into it.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Three Rhode Island companies – Nordic Technology Group, NBA Math Hoops and Prepmatic – were named as finalists in the 2012 MassChallenge.
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By Emily Greenhalgh |
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The Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce has pulled out of a planned partnership with the R.I. Economic Development Corporation to lure out-of-state, knowledge-based companies to …
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By Patrick Anderson |
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(Updated, 3 p.m.) The future of the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is in question, as its staff has been laid off while Brown University, its main funding source, seeks new partners.
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By Rebecca Keister |