He's still figuring it out, but he thinks it will have something to do with the intersection of business, social networking, and finance.
Staples said the Canadian government helps with promotion and marketing, assists in networking, provides financing and loans, and leverages diplomatic channels to help get these deals done — now, evidently, it also provides venues for training and testing.
Now, Dickey is launching Untitled Labs, a "search lab" designed to test multiple consumer tech ideas in "social and professional networking, mobility, personal finance, premium services, health & wellness, travel, photography, and dating" before building out one.
COST is the oldest running pan-European intergovernmental framework facilitating research and scientific networking of nationally financed research projects at the European level.
The Small Business Association, Chambers of Commerce, AMEX Small Business website, associations for your industry, associations by ethnicity...all of these offer training, materials, networking and sometimes financing.
At the University of Utah, the Technology Commercialization Office helped arrange early financing and networking resources for 25 companies.
That could mean professional networking, or events, alongside financing loans.
Within the last thirty years--approximately one generation--the world has seen the birth of the internet, laptop computers, mobile phones, email, ecommerce, micro-financing, social networking, bio fuels, solar energy and human genome sequencing.
