February 4, 2013 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Small Business

Entrepreneurship blossoms at Startup Weekend Storrs

Ideas will be formed and startup companies will be fostered Feb. 8 at Startup Weekend Storrs at the University of Connecticut.

News

Maturing Malloy faces challenge

It wasn't that long ago that Dannel P. Malloy was loudly proclaiming how different he would be...

Real Estate & Construction

Series of leases signed at Hartford’s 280 Trumbull

The 280 Trumbull St. office tower in downtown Hartford has signed tenants to some 20,000 square feet...

News

Public employee pay creeps into discussion

Slowly if not yet surely, Connecticut's excessive public employee compensation is being suspected as a cause of...

Banking & Finance

Venture funding ticks up in CT

Connecticut startup companies attracted $157.6 million in venture capital funding in 2012, a slight increase over 2011,...

News

Scholarship event marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day

The Hartford Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority hosted a breakfast for 600 people in celebration of...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

Six actions shape sales relationships

Selling has evolved over time. When I started, selling was a transactional discipline. The feature / benefit...

Small Business

Shed pounds, not dreams

Over three decades as an entrepreneur in the nutrition business, Charles Remington's journey to raise awareness about eating healthy has been rocky and colorful.

News

Edgren to spend year as D.C. policy fellow

Bruce Edgren, chair of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administration at the University of Saint Joseph...

News

Gender pay inequity deserves another look

To the Editor:Your recent editorial (“Grand Gestures Leading Nowhere” Jan. 28) is both offensive and inaccurate. If...

News

Farmington Bank supports American School for the Deaf

John J. Patrick, Jr., center, president and CEO of Farmington Bank, recently spent some time reading with...

Banking & Finance

Don’t hate equities; they are a long-term ally

American investors seem to have a hate relationship with stocks in recent years.This should come as no...

Nonprofits

Tauck provides $50,000 to Hartford attractions

Tauck, the Norwalk-based provider of guided tours and cruises, has provided separate $25,000 grants to the Mark...

Energy

CT rushes to fix hole in solar tax

Connecticut lawmakers are urgently working on passing a forgotten exemption to the state tax code that's leaving businesses susceptible to thousands in municipal assessments for building solar and other renewable energy systems.

Economic Development

Malloy to pitch $500M for economic development

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy says he will propose at least a $500 million economic development incentive package in his two-year budget plan to be unveiled Wednesday, as the first term Democrat looks to double down on some of the major programs he put in place to jumpstart the state's ailing economy.

Economic Development

CT Inc. pleas for tax credit preservation

Connecticut's business community is calling in its top guns to defend the state's tax credit programs, which will likely be on the chopping block as lawmakers begin to debate Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's budget plan that will have to close billion-dollar deficits for the next two fiscal years.

Banking & Finance

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