Resources



*Venture Capital Funding Sources in Alabama*

Arlington Partners	Porter, White & Company
Bonaventure Capital	Premium Capital Group
Founders Investment Banking	Redmont Venture Partners
Harbert Management Corporation	Southeastern Technology Fund
Hickory Venture Group	Southern Development Council, Inc.
New Capital Partners	Stonehenge Capital Company, LLC
Porter Capital Corporation	Tullis Health Investors
	Vulcan Medical Ventures
*Economic Development*

Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs	The Jefferson County Development Authority
Alabama Development Office (ADO)	Metropolitan Planning Organization
Alabama LaunchPad	Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham
Birmingham Business Alliance	Shelby County Economic & Industrial Development Authority
Business Council of Alabama	TechBirmingham
Economic Development Association of Alabama (EDAA)	World Business Advisors
Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA)

*Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Blogs*

Bits-Technology Blog-New York Times	Joe Nocera-Talking Business-NYT
Bloomberg.com	Mad Money with Jim Cramer-CNBC
Bullish on Books with Gloria	Seeing Both Sides-Boston VCBlog
Buttonwood’s Notebook	Venture Blog
Economix-Business Blog-NYT	Venture Capital Dispatch-Wall Street Journal
Executive Careers-CNBC	Venture Voice
Feld Thoughts	VFinance, Inc.
Floyd Norris-NYT	You’re the Boss-Small Business
Gadgetwise-NYT	JumpStart
TechCrunch	TechDrawl

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