Many thanks to John Sechrest, Terri Fiez and Josefine Fleetwood for their work in putting together the event that was on the front page of the Corvallis Gazette Times today.

Instead of trying to force our researchers to become entreprenuers, we'll work to connect them with people whose passion is entreprenuership and allow our researchers to keep doing what they love, research.

I attended the "matchmaking" meeting that Bennett Hall wrote about today and am excited about what I saw happening. Researchers, sharing a snipit about their research and small business owners seeing the unique commercialization opportunities. I hung around to watch some of these bright entreprenuers connect directly with the researchers to explore the opportunity for unique new products that will change our future.

It is my belief that a company, no matter how big or small has three main elements. These are:
• Product
• Marketing
• Financial Management
If a company is able to achieve balance and perform in these three areas, they will be more readily able to reach their goals. I will probably spend some additional time writing on this subject in the future. As simple as it seems, with the barrage of information, tools and consultants available addressing every issue that arises for businesses of any size, this foundation seems to get lost.