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August 3, 2011

A Good Week For NH’s Green Energy Businesses

About a week after my long post focusing on New Hampshire’s green economy, it looks like the state’s alternative energy businesses have been busy courting Asian markets. First, as James Connonly of Mass High Tech reports, Merrimack-based GT Solar has reeled in a big order: “Solar energy equipment manufacturer GT Solar International Inc. today said […]

August 2, 2011

Talbot’s Preps Poison Pill

A Massachusetts-based retailer with outposts in New Hampshire is trying to stave off an investor takeover. An AP piece published by The Boston Globe lays out Talbot’s strategy to maintain status quo and hold off Sycamore Partners, LP (and by extension, investor Stefan Kaluzny). The name of the play has a desperately grotesque ring: poison […]

August 1, 2011

Women Investors More Likely To Take Risks Than Originally Thought

Here’s an interesting tidbit on investor behavior courtesy of the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research: Apparently, women angel investors are less likely to act like women investors when they’re working with more women. In other words, women are more likely to live up to the stereotype of the cautious female investor when they’re […]

July 29, 2011

Legal Fallout Continues In FRM Case

Bob Sanders of the New Hampshire Business Review has written a startling piece about the continuing–and unexpected–fallout from the Financial Resources Mortgage ponzi scheme. “The bankrupt estate of Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. – the Meredith company behind a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme – has been suing hundreds of the people who were victimized by the swindle for whatever […]

NH Green Jobs Growth Picture Unclear

As the economy continues to limp along toward recovery, “green jobs” has become a buzz phrase, often tossed out as a panacea for our economic ails. But compared to the rest of the nation, New Hamphire’s share of this sector doesn’t exactly stand out. In a study released earlier this month, researchers found that from […]

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