A month ago, a public-private partnership — Startup America Partnership — was announced, reiterating the Obama Administration's keen focus on small business innovation, entrepreneurship and access to capital. With organizational funding from the Kauffman Foundation and the (AOL Steve) Case Foundation, the initiative seems designed to coordinate a variety of existing and emerging (not yet funded) public and private sector resources and efforts focused on advancing Obama’s agenda as it relates to supporting strategic sectors (including energy, advanced manufacturing and information technology) and small, high-growth ventures with capital and counsel. The capital portion of the plan included statements that partners such as IBM Corp. and Intel Corp. would commit specific dollar amounts to supporting or investing in emerging growth companies.
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Author: Michael Gurau
