Music for this video was provided by local artist Crenshaw.
Aaron Kremer
Aaron Kremer is the founder of Richmond BizSense. Email him at [email protected].
UR startup shuts down, for now
The runner-up in a business plan contest at UR has run into some unexpected legal challenges and forced to close down operations days after getting thousands of clicks from a New York Times blog piece.
The state of pay in Richmond
The results of a BizSense HR study are in. Accountants make more than mechanics, who earn almost twice as much as housekeepers. And with the stock market in the tank, CEOs at private companies are only out-earning their nonprofit counterparts by an average of $50,000. Much of that difference comes during bonus season.
NewsFeeds 4.21.09
Seven local companies make Fortune 500 (Times-Dispatch) In what Fortune magazine called the worst year ever for companies on its Fortune 500 list, the Richmond area held its own, though with some major footnotes. Layoffs hit law firms nationwide (Inside Business) Free once you register. Businesses are trying to avoid the onerous cost of legal… Read more »
Two seniors win $2,000 in UR biz plan contest
UR seniors Daniel Brunt and apartment-mate Christopher Genualdi pitched their business plan to a panel of judges about their concept Sniff-Stick LLC and won $2,000 to get rolling. The three other finalists had some promising ideas, too.
The numbers in the Anderson Strudwick deal
Richmond BizSense has learned more about the Anderson Strudwick sale to Tennessee-based Wunderlich Securities.
NewsFeeds 4.20.09
Arts at W&M will cost $355 million (Virginia Gazette) Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall and the Muscarelle Museum will be razed within a decade for massive fine arts and performing arts complex pegged at $355 million. Most area banks profitable in 2008 despite economic crisis (Roanoke Times) National Bank of Blacksburg earned a record $13.6… Read more »
NewsFeeds 4.17.09
Virginia Tech amps up alternative energy research (Roanoke Times) Heat a hospital with grass? Erect a wind turbine near downtown Blacksburg? Experts at Virginia Tech are working on these and other projects in an amped-up bid to advance energy technology, a college official said Thursday. After the Bank Failure Comes the Debt Collector (NY Times)… Read more »
Payday at Altria
Being the CEO of Altria doesn’t pay quite like it used to — but that’s partly because the value of the company’s stock isn’t what it used to be.
Ah, perfect weather for a Tea Party…
Like their tax-despising brethren around the nation, thousands of protesters showed up yesterday at Kanawha Plaza in Downtown Richmond for the Richmond Tea Party.