As we prepare to celebrate May Day tomorrow, Maine is still in the earliest stages of spring. The last vestiges of snow have finally melted off my lawn, colorful crocuses are beginning to emerge from the soil and some of the trees in my yard are starting to sprout buds. All great news. It appears… Read more »
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March in Maine…Truly in Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
The old adage about March coming in like a lion and out like a lamb was perhaps never truer than in 2018 with New England experiencing four nor’easters and being pelted with roughly three feet of snow over a two-week span. As the final days of March come to a close, we are now experiencing… Read more »
Top 8 Lessons from MTAF2.0 Lightning Round
By Martha Bentley MTI’s Director of Innovation Infrastructure This week MTI is announcing the final challenge grants for the MTAF2.0 Lightning Round – the bond funded program approved by voters in June 2017 and managed by MTI on behalf of the taxpayers of Maine. MTI’s President, Brian Whitney, is allowing me to make a guest… Read more »
Why Maine’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Needs To Go Blockchain by Martha Bentley, MTI’s Director of Innovation Infrastructure
“Blockchain’s decentralized, open… nature allow people to trust each other and transact peer to peer, making the need for intermediaries obsolete. This also brings unprecedented security benefits. Hacking attacks that commonly impact large centralized intermediaries like banks would be virtually impossible to pull off on the blockchain.” https://medium.com/blockchain-review/how-does-the-blockchain-work-for-dummies-explained-simply-9f94d386e093 I have been reading a… Read more »