Meidad Vaknin, owner, CEO and chief technology officer of AMnetpro, a Bogotá, Colombia-based company, plans to lease office space in Upward Hartford, initially for three engineers and hopefully grow from there. He said he's drawn, in part, by the region's student-talent pipeline.
Tom Matulaniec was 8 when he began helping his father at his Berlin company, TOMZ Corp., launching a 23-year journey that in April would see him named president of the manufacturer specializing in implantable parts for the medical industry.
Mingling in Upward Hartford's expansive coworking, networking and incubator space downtown during a recent open house, Farmington angel investor and serial entrepreneur/inventor Eric Knight praised the new organization's mix of ingredients.
Chasing Millennial dollars is trendy. Catching Baby Boomer dollars is good business. Millennials may be the shiny thing, but Boomers are still the ones who spend.
Those of us who serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities know that our current system of funding these services isn't sustainable. A billion dollars in state and federal funds are allocated to serve about 16,000 individuals with disabilities in Connecticut. The cost per person is way too high, and there is a waiting list for services.
Last month, groups around the country participated in National Infrastructure Week, a bipartisan effort to focus attention on the need to invest in essential infrastructure assets.
A new law passed by the state legislature without much fanfare could have a major impact on Connecticut's energy industry, providing a potential lifeline to two important, but struggling sectors: fuel cells and waste-to-energy power plants.