New Hampshire Business Review - February 27 2009

Pelham Police are reminding residents to be careful with firearms and to "treat every gun as if it were loaded" in the wake of an accidental shooting at a local gun dealership Wednesday. Police were called to Affordable Firearms on…

CONCORD - A pending federal spending bill contains more than $134 million in New Hampshire earmarked projects that span from the northern White Mountain Forest to the Nashua river along the Massachusetts border. Locally, the legislation would spend money to…

NASHUA - Harbor Homes is in final negotiations to secure a location downtown that would be the site of a 20-unit transitional living house for homeless veterans. Cynthia Andreola, community relations director for Harbor Homes, said the goal is to…

Stonyfield Farm Yogurt of Londonderry and the University of New Hampshire will present the 2009 Stonyfield Farm Entrepreneurship Institute, a “boot camp” for business startups, April 16-17 at the New England Center in Durham. Presented in partnership with UNH’s Carsey…

The flurry of lawsuits in 2008 alleging infringement of open source software licenses underscores the importance of investigating a company’s use of open source software and addressing the risks of such use in investment or merger and acquisition documents. For…

If you sell products overseas, you’ve probably realized that the current economic downturn makes competition for buyers fiercer than ever. You’ll rapidly lose revenue and market share if you don’t cater to the expectations of global customers. But beware —…

Q. A new employee who recently started working as a teller trainee for our bank informed HR that she has a learning disability and has been having trouble keeping up with the training program. Do we need to accommodate her?…

Probably the most valuable tool in any company’s public relations and marketing efforts is good old common sense. And the lack of a common-sense approach has gotten many a company into trouble. Take, for example, the most recent public relations…

The December ice storm and subsequent widespread power outages were a wake-up call for businesses without disaster preparedness plans. As the energy grid failed, power surges and black outs played havoc with computers. Some computers were totally dead when the…

In my line of work, I fund and help grow companies working with and for many stakeholders — investors, employees (those my fund employs, those employed by the companies I fund), the communities and regions in which my companies are…