New Hampshire's Burgeoning Tech Sector

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There are three regions in New Hampshire where communities are forming around technology and innovation. The city of Manchester has a burgeoning tech community growing up around the DNS company Dyn, Inc. The University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College are also seeing start ups and other technology companies grow in their midst on the New Hampshire Seacoast, and in the Upper Valley.

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June 11, 2013

N.H. Startup Brings Local Shops Into Online Wedding Registry Industry

You know the drill – you get a pretty invitation in the mail with a link to Amazon.com or Bed Bath and Beyond. You sit down on the couch, point, click, type in your credit card digits and wave goodbye to your hard-earned money. But if a couple wants their friends to shop locally, well […]

April 8, 2013

Manchester “Hackademy” Designed To Inspire And Recruit

College juniors from the New England area can apply to participate in “hackademy,” a free weekend program of coding workshops, networking, and a mini-hackathon at the Dyn headquarters in Manchester. The program is part workshop, part recruitment strategy for the growing tech company.

March 13, 2013

From Black Gold To Green Economy: Long-Time Entrepreneur Talks New Markets

It’s been three years since the Green Launching Pad initiative was started at the University of New Hampshire with $1.5 million in federal stimulus money. The goal of the project was to fund and support the state’s most promising, eco-friendly start-ups, and enhance New Hampshire’s green economy in the long term. Under federal rules, the […]

March 5, 2013

Renewable Energy Entrepreneur Talks Benefits, Challenges Of Going Green In N.H.

This week, StateImpact will be checking-in on the progress of the University of New Hampshire‘s Green Launching Pad initiative. Begun in 2010 with $1.5 million in federal stimulus money, the GLP’s goal is to provide seed money, UNH faculty business expertise, and student interns to entrepreneurs in the state’s growing green sectors. One of the […]

February 27, 2013

How N.H.’s Budding Video Game Industry Is Getting Gobbled Up By Boston

New Hampshire is attracting more young video game designers. The question is, can the state capture profits by keeping their companies in state? New Hampshire Public Radio’s Ryan Lessard has this story about young designers facing the allure of Boston: New Hampshire is the birthplace of video games. No, really. Just ask 90-year-old Manchester resident […]

January 30, 2013

N.H.’s R&D Tax Credit Explained

Thursday, the New Hampshire Senate unanimously approved a bill that increases the state’s research and development tax credit funding from $1 million to $2 million beginning this year. Last year, 111 qualifying businesses shared that $1 million – so that the 58 businesses who qualified for the maximum credit of $50,000 received $12,065 each. Who […]

December 13, 2012

Liveblog! Tech and Business Leaders Talk Recruitment At NHDRED’s Annual Meeting

From 11:15 to noon today, three leaders of innovation and business in New Hampshire will be discussing employee and business recruitment in the state. We’ll be liveblogging the event, as part of our ongoing coverage of New Hampshire’s simultaneously shrinking workforce and growing tech sector. The speakers are: Patrick Clark of Burstpoint Networks, a Massachusetts […]

December 11, 2012

Young People Get Larger Share Of New Hires In N.H.

In 2011, people ages 22-24 made up only 5.2 percent of New Hampshire’s workforce, but 11.7 percent of the state’s new hires. Those between ages 25 and 34 made up 22.4 percent of new hires — a share 4.2 percent larger than their share in the existing workforce. This, writes Brian Gottlob on his blog Trend […]

November 30, 2012

Drink Coasters 2.0: Seacoast Startup Puts Ads In A New Place

By turning drink coasters into local advertising space, a self-described “coaster fiend” and her three friends are trying to promote local businesses, support charities – and create local jobs while they’re at it. Here’s how it works: LocalCoaster sells low-cost advertising to local shops like The RiverRun Bookstore on one side of a coaster. On the […]

August 29, 2012

Drive-Ins Struggle At A Digital Crossroads

This piece was written and produced for Word Of Mouth by Valerie Hamilton, and edited for StateImpact by Emily Corwin. Listen to Valerie’s story here. Hear about the Fairlee drive-in’s digital crossroads from NHPR’s North Country Reporter, Chris Jenson. Labor Day weekend is traditionally the end of the season for New England’s summer drive-in movie […]

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