File this under things Leon Leonwood Bean would never understand*. On Monday afternoon, L.L.Bean’s PR team tweeted a disclaimer that it is not in fact giving away $100 gift cards on Instagram. FYI – #LLBean is not giving away $100 gift cards on Instagram. Spam Insta account @llbeanofficial asking for your email. Pls RT — […]
Time Warner Cable is reportedly dropping New England Cable News from its channel lineup for customers in New England. NECN (not to be confused with NESN, the sports network) has a bureau in Portland and offers local and regional news 24 hours a day. In a move Time Warner Cable says is unrelated, it will […]
Yesterday, Gov. Paul LePage’s office issued a news release to announce that Ntension, a Hermon-based manufacturer of tension-fabric structures, was expanding its space and workforce. The company plans to move into a brand new 40,000-square-foot facility by May 2014 and add more than 20 jobs over the next few years, reaching a total estimated workforce of […]
Have you heard of Kurt Badenhausen? No? He’s the guy we all love to hate. Kurt is a senior editor at Forbes magazine and the producer of the infamous list of the Best States for Business, on which Maine has placed dead last four years in a row. Marty Grohman, entrepreneur, sustainability guru and podcaster, spoke […]
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia last week released what it calls its coincident index for each state. The index is an effort to summarize current economic conditions in a single statistic. The report, which used October data, makes Maine look pretty good, placing it among only 11 states that saw its index score increase by […]
I’m preparing to raise a young family myself, so when I saw the following headline it caught my attention: “The Best Towns in Maine for Young Families.” Deciding where to raise a family is a rite of passage for young couples (kind of like deciding on whether to get a joint checking account or not). […]
Watch your step. There’s a lot of BS on the Internet. You may see the news on Twitter or your Facebook feed that AMC is planning to film an episode of The Walking Dead in the Maine woods. The news is attributed to a blog written by a screenwriter purportedly living in Maine. The blog’s […]
Will budding entrepreneurs use an online tool to help them determine whether their business idea has legs? And, more importantly, will they pay for premium content to help them successfully build their business? That’s the question I, along with four teammates, have been pondering for nearly 14 hours straight (it’s almost 11 o’clock on Saturday […]
A few high-profile members of the national media descended on Eastport, Maine, this week. James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, and Kai Ryssdal, host of the well-known public radio program Marketplace, visited Eastport as part of their American Futures project, which is looking at “reinvention and resilience across the nation.” Basically, Fallows and his wife […]
How do we create an entrepreneurial ecosystem in Maine? The question is not meant to imply Mainers aren’t entrepreneurial. We certainly have a workforce known for its hard work and resourcefulness. But we can’t rest on our reputation for “Yankee ingenuity.” What I’m talking about when I say we need to foster an entrepreneurial ecosystem […]
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