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6 Ideas to start your first business

21 May

There are lots of entrepreneurs, but the most critical question is what business should they start? You can come up with hundreds of good ideas, but what’s the point if you can’t implement them and turn into a real business?

Here are 6 ideas for you to start your first business – you can test the water first and eventually find out what you are really good at and change your business eventually.

Idea 1: Buy a small franchise

Franchises can start from as low as $5000, even less, some good franchises are also available between $10,000 to $20,000. Many franchising opportunities are designed to be work-from-home businesses as well.

The good thing about franchising is you are tapping into an existing system, therefore, you can save significant time in product development, as well as sales & marketing activities. You can lear a lot being a franchisee, you can learn about sales & marketing strategies, you can learn from training, and most importantly, you can also build up your customer base as well.

Idea 2: Kids related activities business

Summer camps, sports camps, winter camps..you name them. The kids activities industry is the fast growing industry and it was hardly impacted during the recession as well. Most parents will cut spending on everything but on kids’ activities.

This is a good way to build your first business – this can include tutoring, summer camps, activities camps, education & entertainment, dancing, football and lots of choices.

The best thing about this is building a business around your hobbies and interests – for example, my hobby is in sharemarket and business creations – I had been running summer camps teaching kids about finance and business innovations.

You can also establish great networks through these activities with their parents, this is a great way to get to know clients from different industries.

Idea 3: E-Store

Anybody can set up a e-commerce store these days. eBay and Amazon are good starting points, but essentially, you should also build a site that can send customers directly to your site. The choice is yours – you probably need to try different products or services on web. Avoid businesses that require inventory as the first business as that can eat-up your capital very fast, if possible, have some digital products such as eBooks or reports as starting point, and promote useful information such as How To Guides.

Idea 4: Blogging Website

Blogging can make you become an expert – by writing informative articles, you can create many followers and larger audiences. Blogging is not everyone, you must enjoy writing, or you can have a team of writers, that you can manage.

Blogging can create significant advertising revenues, one good example is Examiner.com – who shares revenue with other writers.

However, to make it successful, you must own your own blog and builds up traffic consistently, and interact with your readers by offering them incentives, downloads and communicate tem regularly with newsletters.

It is very common for bloggers to make $2000 to $3000 a month these days as a starting point, and they can go into $10,000+ a month once you have 50,000 or more members and readers.

Idea 5: Mobile Marketing Company

This is quite a fast growing trend thanks to smart-phones and devices. Mobile marketing is surging and businesses are adopting this rapidly. Mobile marketing is a simple-to-use and simple to understand concept for most businesses.

You do not need to be an IT expert, but rather – is to have a good idea and user of different applications that can integrate with social media tools and web marketing platforms such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest or Twitter.

This is an exceptional popular business for young entrepreneurs, who are always on the lookout of the latest new gadgets or mobile applications that can be utilizes for businesses.

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5 Strategies to use LinkedIn for Capital Raising

17 May

In my view, LinkedIn is one of the most revolutionary inventions in the finance industry, it has opened up enormous opportunities that were previous unavailable.

However, most still think LinkedIn simply as a social media platform, and unsure what to do with it, in this article, we have outlined 6 strategies that you can use & integrate using LinkedIn effectively for capital raising.

Strategy 1: Start with your own contacts 

The first strategy is look at what you have outside LinkedIn – do you have e-mail database, business cards, your personal contacts, and business associates? The first thing is to use LinkedIn to connect or reconnect with them.

People change jobs all the time, you will be surprised how much networks you can expand simply by connecting with your old friends, colleagues or associates.

I did this recently and reconnected with my elementary school friend, and before I know it, she connected me to her realtor, who then connected me to a commercial real estate group, and we are working on a large deal because of this quick introduction.

Strategy 2: Use InMail

Most LinkedIn users want to save money and do not want to upgrade to paid memberships. I was one of them for many years. We upgraded to business level and we were allocated with many InMail credits.

LinkedIn InMail has the best response rate – our response rate is as high as 80% to 100%, and if they do not reply to you, LinkedIn will actually return the InMail credits back to your account, it is a worthwhile investment.

Strategy 3: Research Company Information

Before you start using LinkedIn, come up with a list of companies you wish to contact first, do some initial research, then use LinkedIn to identify the decision makers and appropriate contacts.

We are in the real estate industry helping clients in finding joint venture partners – so started with our own in-house analysis on REITs, private equity groups and hedge funds. We then use LinkedIn to connect with the CEOs and COOs of these groups, and this has helped us to build up relationships rapidly.

Strategy 4: Integrate LinkedIn with CRM

LinkedIn is essentially a huge ever-growing database, and it can get out of control pretty quickly if you are managing properly, and you will be end up with “contacts overflow” – you will have lots of contacts, but you have no idea how to use them.

This is when CRM becomes handy, you should integrate contacts with CRM system and have a systematic search methodology in the CRM on contacts from your LinkedIn contacts, this will make the process much easier.

Strategy 5: Use Keywords and Search Terms

One challenge for LinkedIn is everyone is inputting their bio / resume into LinkedIn themselves, the range of keywords can be very different. Similar to search engine, you need to come up with a range of keywords to ensure you can find the relevant contacts.

For example: JV, Joint Venture, Preferred Equity, Equity Participation, Structured Investment.

Also for companies – many have subsidiaries and divisions, so you can use those as keywords. These will help you to identify investors for your opportunities.

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Entrepreneur’s 5 important personalities

17 May

Why some entrepreneurs succeed, and they seem to have all the success while the rest just keep failing? Is it simply because of the luck, or is it something that anyone can master?
In most cases,  it is more important to identify these personalities than the actual business. Business plans can be written to perfect, but it is the people who are driving it.

Personality check is a key criteria to attract investments, and it is often something most entrepreneurs have ignored the importance – investors will not tell you that they do not invest in you because of your personalities, but they will make up some other excuses.

So take a look of 6 personalities that are being assessed by investors

Personalities of a good Entrepreneur

1. Visionary realist

Yes, they have to co-exist – you need to have a long-term vision but also a realist. Too many entrepreneurs only have vision and nothing else, that is probably 90% of chance why they fail or could not attract investment.

Realist means you will accept the best offer presented to you, they maybe far off from what you are hoping for, but you are able to work on the plan according to the realistic plan and investment.

2. Flexibility & Adaptability

It is important to have flexibility as entrepreneurs – we can probably say “most things will not work according to the plan”. Many have failed simply because they do not have back up plans when something happens such as competitor, disruption in supply or loss of a key employee.

Able to adapt and survive in adverse conditions is the most important ingredient, able to be flexible in your sales, marketing and product offering, as market changes all the time.

3. A Survivor

These types of entrepreneurs can usually survive, business world is about innovation, creativity but also fittest survives.

We have seen many successful entrepreneurs have succeeded because they have learnt from their mistakes from previous ventures but persist and change into another business.

You don’t need to hide that you had failed before – most importantly, it’s what you had learnt.

4. A Negotiator

We are currently assisting several companies to source capital for their expansion capital – we have 2 clients who have received Term Sheet from investors, but they simply do not want to negotiate.

“Waiting for a better offer” is what they believe in – instead of negotiating with offers from investors, they simply ignore them and burn the bridge. One of them finally realizes that he can not get any alternative offer and now going back to the original investor, but “the money has gone cold” and he is unable to find an alternative investment.

Business is all about negotiating, do not turn away an offer completely, see if you can work around your own circumstances and make changes.

5. Not a control freak

Delegation is important, too many entrepreneurs always say “I wish I can clone myself”, I am one such like that. Then I realize, I am simply wasting my time, there are many talented people out there, and most importantly, there are many tasks where you don’t need to do yourself.

Do not control everything yourself – set yourself a good working schedule and delegate out – delegate out tasks such as sales contacts, CRM updates, research, analysis, marketing campaigns to others and focus on most important matters – such as client negotiation and product development.

6.Calculated Risk Taker

Many entrepreneurs are not risk takers – and yet – they contradict this outside business. I know business owners who refuse to take the risk and expand their operations or putting their own capital into business for expansion, yet – they trade FX or even worse, they go to casinos regularly.

What’s a risk taker? Well, you have to take calculated risks:

1) Able to risk your capital for business expansion such as payrolls or equipment

2) Able to use your collateral or assets to apply for expansion loan or capital

3) Able to share with your clients and other joint venture partners

I have seen too many cases where entrepreneurs have shown no skin in the game.

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Hiring Activities – Companies expanding and new HQs

08 May

Many companies are expanding and these will add new jobs, particularly those building new headquarters.

Education Training Corporation Expands Headquarters in Fort Lauderdale adding New Jobs and Capital Investment

Education Training Corporation d/b/a Anthem Education, announced that it has chosen Fort Lauderdale as the location to expand its new consolidated North American headquarters.

Anthem Education operates as a post-secondary educational institution with 34 campuses in 14 states. The Company operates its campuses under the Florida Career College, Anthem College, Anthem Career College, Anthem Institute, The Bryman School of Arizona and Morrison University names.

Florida Career College has operated in Florida since 1982 and has grown and expanded its schools and programs to meet the needs of students and businesses and currently offers career-focused programs in various subject areas, such as allied healthcare, information technology, technical trades and others at each of its 12 locations throughout the State of Florida. In April 2012, Education Training Corporation acquired Arizona based High-Tech Institute Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Anthem Education, with 22 campuses in 14 states.

Reifenhäuser ramps up U.S. operations, moves headquarters

Reifenhäuser, who runs the extrusion technology company of the same name with his brother, Bernd, told PlasticsToday that the December 2012 purchase of Wichita, KS-based screw and barrel maker, Westland, was the first step in an overall strategy to renew focus on the North American market.

To seize chose chances, the company is undertaking a two-stage expansion of the Wichita site, boosting capacity by 20% and then 30% and making the it Reifenhäuser‘s new U.S. headquarters, replacing the Danvers, MA site. Current employment of 50 in Wichita will be boosted as well, with the facility to also store spare parts to service existing lines. Steve DeSpain, who has been named the new president of U.S. operations, estimated that the company has around 1400 systems installed in the U.S. The company is hoping to be completely moved into Wichita in September.

Novo opens doors on new US headquarters

The 731,000 square foot offices (pictured) in Mercer Country in Plainsboro were built around an existing structure and used sustainable materials to limit their environmental impact.

The Danish pharma company initially plans to occupy only 75 per cent of the building’s total capacity in order to leave it room for further expansion in the US.

Mitsubishi Electric opens new US headquarters

Mitsubishi Electric has opened a new headquarters for its heating and cooling products in Atlanta, Georgia. The $30m facility will house sales and administrative offices, an engineering centre, training facilities and warehouse. At 550,000ft2, it is nearly twice the size of its previous premises.

The new headquarters is one of many key investments that Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has made in North America in recent years. Along with recently expanded manufacturing facilities in Memphis and Pittsburgh, the company will open its first North American hvac production facility in Mexico in October 2013 to serve the US and Latin American markets.

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06 May

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Weekly Job Ideas & Activities

14 Jan

Companies are hiring nationwide, here are some activities & announcements which can help you to find new opportunities.

Altus Healthcare Management Services will break ground on two new buildings

The two new buildings include a 10,000 square-feet emergency facility and a 45,000 square-feet medical office building, which will entail an investment of $6 million and $9.6 million respectively.

The new emergency centre will be located at 1404 W. Baker Rd. in Baytown and will include a trauma room, eight treatment rooms, a triage unit and full radiology suite; as well as other tertiary spaces. The project has been designed by Wali and Associates, a US-based architectural practice.

Hefren-Tillotson opens Greensburg office

Hefren-Tillotson Inc., Pittsburgh-based and among the region’s largest independent investment advisory and financial planning firms, on Wednesday announced it has opened a new office in Greensburg, about 24 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Under the direction of Matthew S. Snider, vice president and branch manager, the office will be staffed with an experienced team of six financial advisors and three client support personnel. The 4,000-square-foot office is located at 540 Pellis Rd., Greensburg.

Texas-Based Champion Entertainment Opens Hollywood Office

Champion Entertainment Inc., a Houston-based film production company producing award winning films since 1993, announced today the opening of a Hollywood Branch office to have an ongoing presence in the entertainment capital of the world.

Champion’s Office is located on the Sunset-Gower Studio lot in Hollywood. The opening of the office is part of Champion Entertainment’s plans to expand in the independent film development, production and distribution arena.

ServicePro.net Opens New Corporate HQ

COLUMBUS, Ohio: The company has relocated its corporate headquarters to a larger facility in Columbus, the company announced.

The company said the move is a result of its growth, and it outgrew its old space. The new facility is at 1535 Georgesville Road, Columbus, Ohio.

“What was once a business that had less than ten employees has now grown to a medium-sized operation with close to 100 employees working for the software development and technology firm,” the company said in a statement.

Yankee Candle Opens Design Studio in New York

The Yankee Candle Company is opening a new design studio in New York City. Fashion and textiles designer, Patti Carpenter, will head the studio as creative director.

The new location will help leverage design experts in the fashion and home decor industry and allow the company to influence the design, cost, and manufacturing opportunities of its products.

Carpenter will work out of the NYC studio space and serve as the internal trend forecaster and create custom developed products for Yankee Candle as creative director. She is the principal and creator of Continuum Home Inc. and founder of Carpenter + Company.

Carpenter brings more than 25 years of experience to Yankee Candle, including positions with Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, and Ralph Lauren.

The new design studio and its creative team will work closely with the company’s existing creative department located at company headquarters in South Deerfield.

Drilling supplier opens new facility in Wellsville

Another piece of the river valley’s energy production future fell into place Monday when Anchor Drilling Fluids USA, Inc., announced the opening of a new production and storage facility at the Wellsville Intermodal Industrial Park.

According to a press release from the Oklahoma-based company, the 12,000 square-foot, $2 million facility is the first permanent drilling fluids operation in Ohio. It is strategically located adjacent to the existing Cimbar Performance Minerals facility at the Intermodal Park, where the barite used in Anchor’s drilling fluid is processed.

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Hiring News: New Headquarters, New Investments are coming in

14 Jan

Hiring News: New Headquarters, New Investments are coming in

We have seen significant increase of news and announcements, including new IPOs, new capital raising, new investment activities and new headquarters planned.

Boulder’s SparkFun eyeing new headquarters

SparkFun Electronics could mark a couple milestones next year.

Boulder-based SparkFun not only will mark its 10th anniversary in 2013, but the supplier of electronics parts and kits also could move into expansive new digs.

Nathan Seidle, the founder and CEO of SparkFun, is in the process of buying an undeveloped property just north of Highway 52 in the Boulder Tech Center. Plans for the 4.31-acre site call for a two-story, 80,000-square-foot building for SparkFun’s headquarters.

Arkadin Establishes New North American Headquarters in Atlanta

Arkadin, one of the world’s largest and the fastest growing collaboration service providers, announced that it will move its North American headquarters from New York, NY to Atlanta, GA.

The new Arkadin office, located in one of the largest business centers in the U.S., provides significant advantages for continued long-term growth. ”

The headquarters will be located in the Queen Building, 5 Concourse Parkway in the Perimeter Center Business District in Atlanta. Arkadin will continue to maintain its New York office as a main regional hub for marketing, sales and operations center for the Northeast.

California company could create 200 jobs in North Georgia

A California-based pharmaceutical company is expected to soon announce it is bringing 200 new jobs to metro Atlanta.

PureTek is considering a site in Jackson County for manufacturing and headquarters facilities, the two people said.

PureTek is based in San Fernando, Calif., and specializes in manufacturing bulk pharmaceuticals for drug companies.

CraftWorks moving headquarters to Broomfield

CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries Inc., which operates brewpubs and restaurants such as Old Chicago and Rock Bottom, is moving its Colorado headquarters to Broomfield from Louisville.

CraftWorks has leased a 10,000-square-foot space on the fifth floor of the Arista Place office building in the Arista development off U.S. 36 in Broomfield, said officials for Wiens Capital Management, developer of the Arista project. CraftWorks is relocating from 248 Centennial Parkway in Louisville.

Alacrita Establishes U.S. Headquarters in Boston Area

Alacrita, which is changing the face of pharma consulting, the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center and the Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment announced today that the U.K.-based company has expanded into Massachusetts.

Alacrita has formally established a new office in Cambridge, Massachusetts that will allow the company to build its U.S. life science consulting capability and more effectively serve its clients in North America. The expansion announcement follows the March 2011 visit to the U.K. by Governor Deval Patrick and a delegation of state leaders from industry, academia and government to promote mutually beneficial collaborations.

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Hiring Ideas – Companies continue to expand and create new jobs

14 Jan

Here are some more updates about companies that are expanding and creating new jobs.

Magnetic separator manufacturer Steinert expands it’s North American HQ in Northern Kentucky

A German-based manufacturer of magnetic separating equipment has expanded it’s North American HQ, with a new 36,000 ft. facility in Walton, Ky.

It develops and manufactures industrial separating equipment that sorts materials for the mining industry, trash handlers, large scarp yards and more. The company moved its HQ from Erlanger to Walton earlier this year after outgrowing its Erlanger space.

The company is now in a new 36,000-square-foot facility that will expand the its capabilities here. It will feature a new testing lab, manufacturing and repair facility and increase space for its parts inventory.

Vetter Prepares for Further Growth

Vetter, a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), has announced that a triple-digit million euro syndicated loan has been arranged.

The five-year credit facility will secure Vetter’s plans for additional investments in its facilities and production capacities. Thanks to this syndicated loan, Vetter will manage to set a course for continued success and expand its leading role in the international pharma and biotech market.

Over the past several years, Vetter has seen constant growth in customer demand, resulting in the need for expanded production capacity. In response, Vetter created its new production site Ravensburg Vetter South and the company’s clinical development site in Chicago, Vetter’s first US facility.

This growth has also led to the continuing need for additional employees. As such, Vetter has created over 300 new jobs in the last year alone.

Canopy Tent Business Ace Canopy Plans to Move Main Headquarters to Taylor Texas

Businesses often relocate to maximize their earning potential and to meet customers’ needs. To satisfy the demand for tents and canopies, Ace Canopy plans to move main headquarters to Taylor Texas. At this location, the business can continue to meet their clients’ demands for outdoor canopies.
Being located in Texas does not prevent this company from reaching its customer base that is found throughout the country.

Exxon’s move to Texas

ExxonMobil announced Wednesday it will be close its Fairfax County offices by 2015 and transfer 2,100 jobs to a new facility in Houston.

The company’s office complex, located on Gallows Road in Fairfax, originally was built by Mobil when it moved from New York City in 1981. Since Exxon’s acquisition of Mobil in 1998, Fairfax has been the company’s refining operations headquarters.

Local employees will move to the Houston campus in phases as the buildings are constructed, beginning in early 2014, ExxonMobil said.

Full occupancy for employees is expected by 2015, according to the company.

Jeld-Wen to Establish New North American Headquarters in NC

Jeld-Wen Inc. will open a new North American headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., according to a news release from North Carolina Gov. Betsy Perdue. The window and door manufacturer plans to invest $2 million in the operation and create at least 142 jobs over the next two years.

The company’s global headquarters will remain in Klamath Falls, Ore., where it got its start more than 50 years ago. One reason for the new Charlotte location is its proximity to Home Depot, based in Atlanta, and Lowe’s, based in Mooresville, N.C.

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Business Expansion Activities

14 Jan

Business Expansion Activities

Many businesses continue to expand – activities that can create jobs include new U.S. headquarter by foreign companies, new regional headquarters or new global headquarters.

Celcite opens new global headquarters in Dulles Technology Corridor near Washington DC

Continuing its rapid business expansion, Celcite Management Solutions (www.celcite.com), the world’s leading provider of automatic optimisation tools and services for wireless networks, announced today the opening of a new global headquarters in the Dulles Technology Corridor located in Northern Virginia, USA.

Celcite’s relocation reflects its rapid growth, and the new facility will accommodate recent team expansion and several additional new hires planned in the upcoming year. Located on the 5th floor of 2553 Dulles View Drive, the headquarters has a majestic view of the Washington DC Metropolitan area.

The company also has operations in Atlanta, USA; London, UK; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Johannesburg, South Africa; Singapore, and Gurgaon, India.

California manufacturer bringing 100 new jobs to Mentor

A California manufacturing center serving the motorsports industry is moving to Mentor and bringing 100 new jobs with it.
Performance Motorsports Inc. today announced relocation of subsidiary JE Pistons to the site of another of PMi’s divisions, Wiseco Piston Inc., 7201 Industrial Park Blvd., west of Route 306.

The company, a representative of which approached the city more than a year ago, has made a $1 million-plus capital investment in the Mentor facility.

Atlantic Safety Products Moves HQ to New Hampshire

For over 20 years, the Atlantic Safety Products (ASP) HQ has been in Norwood, Massachusetts. When the opportunity came for owners David and Robert Dillon to move their headquarters to Pittsfield, NH, they jumped at the chance.

“The new Pittsfield location is perfect for our needs. We are growing at a steady rate, and we needed the facilities to grow as well.

We moved from a 20,000 sqft. warehouse to over 70,000 sqft, plus we added two additional third party warehouses in Indiana and Nevada to service our customers better and faster.” David Dillon, CEO explains.

ASP has made a name for itself as one of the fastest growning disposible hand protection manufacturers in the country. By keeping up with the newest trends and manufacturing processes, they are continually offering state of the art hand protection to various industries.

DreamWorks Animation opens new facility in Redwood City

The Glendale-based company behind the “Shrek” and “Madagascar” movies on Thursday unveiled a new 200,000-square-foot headquarters for its PDI animation facility in Redwood City.

The new campus overlooking San Francisco Bay is one-third larger than the previous one (at the same location) and has an on-site clinic for a doctor’s office and nutritionist, a larger cafe and more outdoor space with gas heaters “to permit hanging outside year-round.” It also has a giant topiary of the company’s Moonboy, just like in Glendale.

Company executives said they needed additional space to expand operations and house departments under one roof.

PDI currently has 526 employees and will add another 200 workers over the next three years, the company said. In total, DreamWorks employs 2,191.

CLI Solutions in Tampa expanding, building new headquarters

Defense intelligence contractor CLI Solutions is creating up to 40 more jobs and investing $3.4 million in building a new headquarters in Tampa.

The new positions will include translators, linguists, analysts and engineers with annual salaries exceeding $60,000.

Founded in 2005, CLI relocated its headquarters to Tampa in 2010 following a contract with U.S. Central Command in partnership with defense company SAIC. It currently has 49 employees.

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Hiring & Business Expanding Ideas

14 Jan

Hiring & Business Expanding Ideas

This is our continuing coverage of companies that are expanding, relocating and opening new headquarters. All of these activities can create new jobs and business opportunities.

RGA planning new headquarters, 300 jobs

One of the St. Louis region’s eight remaining Fortune 500 companies is planning to build a new, $150 million headquarters complex in Chesterfield and add 300 jobs here, according to Chesterfield and St. Louis County officials.

RGA has about 800 employees in the St. Louis region in leased office space in Chesterfield. It had been looking at sites for a new headquarters in the region, said Denny Coleman, president of the St. Louis County Economic Council, and settled on Chesterfield. It is planning to construct two five-story office buildings — 405,000 square feet in all — and a three-story parking garage.

ADT to add 120 jobs at Florida HQ

Florida state, county and local governments have pledged $1.6 million in a public funding incentive package to persuade ADT to stay in Florida and create the jobs, according to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Zipcar to Move Corporate Headquarters to Boston

Zipcar Chairman and CEO Scott Griffith reached an agreement with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino to relocate Zipcar’s corporate headquarters to Boston’s Innovation District in 2013.

More than 200 employees will move to the new Boston offices, which will encompass six floors of the building. Zipcar car sharing spaces will also be located outside the building.

TEXAS TO INVEST $1.9 MILLION IN HID GLOBAL CORP FOR NEW FACILITY IN AUSTIN

Perry’s office says that the TEF investment will create 239 jobs and more than $35 million in capital investment at a new manufacturing and distribution center in Austin.

HID Global is a worldwide leader in secure identity solutions, and the new facility will be the company’s future operations center for North America, that will produce and distribute a variety of identity and access management products.

Israeli defense company opens headquarters in Howard County

Israel Aerospace Industries’ new ELTA North America subsidiary officially opened its headquarters in Howard County on Monday with a plan to go from nine employees to 100 in the next four years. ELTA, which makes radar and other defense electronic systems, will manufacture products from a small Fulton location with room to grow.

Scotland-based Innova Partnerships Ltd. Opens Boston Office

Scottish company, Innova Partnerships Ltd. has announced the opening of its first U.S. venture in Northborough, Mass., to allow the company to play a key role in the internationalization of life science companies in Scotland.

Innova Partnerships Ltd, the global life sciences partnering and investment company, based in Perthshire, Scotland, specializes in supporting the commercial development of medical devices, diagnostics and life science products of companies based in the UK.

Twitter Has Got a New Headquarters in San Francisco

Twitter is introducing new changes in its Brand as well as in its offices. After releasing the new Bird logo, Twitter is now moving in to new space in the Mid-Market neighborhood of San Francisco having a new office address: Twitter HQ, 1355 Market Street, San Francisco.

The move is not important just for Twitter but also marks a big change for the City of San Francisco; the area surrounding the new Twitter Office is long due for a revival. The place was considered undesirable, but city officials are hoping that Twitter’s presence can turn things around.

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American Venture Capital Employers Database

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Young Professionals Guide: 70 Practical Social Media Tools

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