Telecommunications Loans; Community Connect Grants

2019 marked the return of Minnesota’s angel tax credit, an incentive program for investors to put money into growing Minnesota startups. The program, which offers a 25% tax credit to investors who put money into eligible startup companies, began in 2010 but disappeared for a year after its funding lapsed in...

Launch Minnesota, the new Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) program that carves out $2.5 million for startup entrepreneurs, is taking shape. Announced earlier this year, the bipartisan initiative now has some specifics. Applications will be taken starting Oct. 30 and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Eligible...

In Virginia’s Loudoun County, a booming and affluent exurban community about 30 miles outside of Washington, D.C., 10 of the 12 breweries in business in 2016 opened their doors since 2012. All of them can be defined as “craft breweries”, small and independent businesses that combine traditional brew styles...