| Southern Capitol Ventures Invests in Maryland Sales Lead Firm
BALTIMORE — Raleigh-based Southern Capitol Ventures has ventured into Maryland to make its latest venture capital investment.The firm was one of two new investors in a $4 million round of funding for Baltimore-based DoublePositive Marketing Group. Hamilton Investment Partners and Slate Venture Group also participated in the round as did several individuals and DoublePositive’s previous investors.Frank Bonsal, co-founder of New Enterprise Associates, and Dave Willey, former chief financial officer at Capitol One, were among the individual investors.DoublePositive will use the funds for expanded sales and marketing as well as the addition of new products.The company, which was founded in 2004, has developed a real-time system for generating and acquiring Internet sales leads. Data collected from banner ads on Web sites is collected, screened and transferred to sales people for immediate contact."This fundraising will help solidify our position as the leading live lead generation company by allowing us to focus on diversification into new markets," said Sean Fenlon, co-founder and chief executive officer of DoublePositive.
IT Business Net Launches Technology Resource Directory with Directories, Inc.
ITBusinessNet.com, a subsidiary of Digital Media Online, the world's largest publisher of digital content for technologically savvy consumers and IT professionals with over 125 distinct web sites and newsletters, has partnered with Directories, Inc., a premier lead generation and resource directory platform, to offer the Technology Resources Directory on their web site. Directories, Inc. is the corporate umbrella of vertically-focused research directories. The company offers a turnkey lead delivery solution for premium publishers that allow them to leverage the quality of their brand to drive traffic and leads to their advertisers. The ITBusinessNet.com Resource Directory (http://whitepapers.itbusinessnet.com ) aggregates content from Directories, Inc.'s premier technology directory, FindWhitePapers.com, to include information on technology products and services, white papers, Webcasts, demos, case studies and so on.
Project To “Green” Stewart Island Power Supply
Southland District Council (SDC) and Meridian subsidiary Right House have launched a project to replace the current diesel electricity system with renewable generation. Right House specialises in providing energy efficient solutions to the built environment. The Council’s Stewart Island Electrical Supply Authority (SIESA) network manager Peter Thompson said renewable energy was the best possible solution for Stewart Island and was in keeping with its natural heritage and native environment. .
SABRINA: A Decade Of Doubt And Pain
This week, two Hillsborough County sheriff's detectives are sifting through stacks of evidence, following phoned-in leads and reviewing notes from interviews to find a missing 5-month-old girl. It is their only active case. Last month, the girl's parents appeared on "The Montel Williams Show," pitching their Web site and asking for the public's help. Whenever they travel, they return home with a trinket so that, some day, they can show their daughter they have been thinking of her. The couple's attorney, Barry Cohen, blasted the sheriff's office again this week for what he calls a myopic investigation that faults the parents in the girl's disappearance. It has been this way since before the war in Iraq, before the Sept. 11 attacks, before the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
Being the 'odd duck' at Thanksgiving
I spent 10 Thanksgivings volunteering in a Harlem soup kitchen because -- hell, I'll just say it -- I'm one of the few women of my generation who look really good in a hairnet. Also, I love to cook. I love turning nothing into something. I love the smell of garlic and lemon and ginger and onion. I love how blissed out a table full of people get over a crumbly cornbread stuffing or a perfectly dressed salad or a sweet potato-bourbon pie made from scratch. .
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