WILMINGTON, N.C.----The Council for Entrepreneurial Development announced today announced that David Fussell, Sr., co-founder of Duplin Wine Cellars, will join previously announced speakers Don DeBethizy, Ph.D., President and CEO of Targacept Inc., and John McConnell, former chairman and CEO of A4 Health Systems, in providing featured remarks at Opportunity 2006.
The Monitor View (The Monitor)
Prosperity is advancing in Mexico - but only to the most wealthy and those working in government-linked industries, according to a study released this week by the World Bank. It found great inequalities in wealth stemming from "concentrated wealth in the...
Deal Flow, VC Interest in Midwest Health Care Ventures Increasing, Survey Shows (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CLEVELAND----The Midwest continues to grow in reputation as a source of quality health care investment deals, according to the results of BioEnterprise's second annual survey of national health care venture capital firms.
Va. worker wins grievance over blog (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A well-known conservative blogger has been awarded back pay after the Virginia Department of Business Assistance temporarily suspended him for postings that insulted Martinsville-area officials.
BEE builds white business (Mail and Guardian)
South Africa seems to be so fixated on BEE that the unprecedented white economic empowerment taking place is either not noticed, simply assumed to be natural, or denied. The fact that it makes for an uncomfortable acronym probably doesn?t help either.
Small business summit to start today (SABC News)
Today is the beginning of the Annual Small Business Summit promoting the voice of small business, a two-day summit that seeks improve the profile of the small business sector.
Sharples: Income Tax Bill; First Reading (Scoop.co.nz)
This Bill is the final instalment of an income tax legislation tidy-up project. It is a mammoth Bill, indeed volumes of parts and clauses, transitional provisions, binding rulings and accrual determinations.
South Sound business people (The Olympian)
Tom DiDonna, R.N., education coordinator at Mason General Hospital, was recently asked to lead a delegation of physicians and nurses to represent the American Heart Association in a voluntary, international Advanced Resuscitation educational endeavor in Paraguay at the end of November.
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