2007-08-30	Regional Competitiveness, New Product Development Editor’s note: The RTP Product Pipeline is a regular feature in WRAL Local Tech Wire. Its purpose is to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, educators and inventors better understand the product commercialization process. Montie Roland and Thomas Vass are co-founders of The RTP Product Development Guild, Inc. Their column appears weekly.
2007-09-16	Who Profits From Technological Innovation? Our understanding of the future economic success in this region, and the nation at large, is that technology based economic development is the only sure path to self-sustaining, and self-renewing wealth for the maximum number of citizens. The process of innovation and the success rate of commercialization is very uncertain, so it takes a huge number of deals at the top of the RTP product development funnel to create the foundation of regional economic success. Very few of the deals ever make to the end of the funnel.
2007-08-02	New Product Technology Commercialization Group News Story
2007-08-05	RTP product development guild helps entrepreneurs TechJournal South
2007-08-05	New Group Focuses on Helping Startups WRAL Local TechWire
2007-08-06	RTP Product Guild Announces Pig Pickin Business dBusiness News
2007-08-01	New Product Development Guild connects entrepreneu Tech JournalSouth
2007-08-01	Turning Ideas into Reality – That’s Goal of New ‘P WRAL Local TechWire
2007-08-06	RTP Product Development Guild’s vendor exhibit and Carolina Newswire
2007-08-08	Patent issued to Guild's Vice President Guild's Vice President issued Patent
2007-08-22	The Rule of Law, the Rule of Trust and the 50-Mile Editor’s note: The RTP Product Pipeline is a new feature for WRAL Local Tech Wire. Its purpose is to help entrepreneurs, business leaders, educators and inventors better understand the product commercialization process.
Morrisville, NC	Regional Competitiveness, New Product Development RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - The newly-formed RTP Product Development Guild, Inc., has an unusual goal: Promote maximum rates of regional economic growth by following author and economist Joseph Schumpeter’s insight about the forces of creative destruction of technological innovation.
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Morrisville, N.C.	Who Profits From Technological Innovation? MORRISVILLE - One of the reasons that we formed the RTP Product Development Guild, Inc., was a sense of foreboding that the rate of new product development and new venture creation in the RTP was inadequate.
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Morrisville, NC	New Product Technology Commercialization Group  MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- A new professional consortium of business advisors has been created in North Carolina to help entrepreneurs commercialize new products and technology. The RTP Product Development Guild, Inc., was founded by Montie Roland, President of Montie Design, Inc. and Thomas Vass, President of The Private Capital Market, Inc.™ Click Here To Read Story
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Morrisville, NC	RTP product development guild helps entrepreneurs The RTP Product Development Guild (www.rtpproductguild.com) is a private organization of consultants who share a common interest in promoting technological product innovation in the RTP regional economy. Click Here To Read
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Morrisville, NC	New Group Focuses on Helping Startups Morrisville — A pair of Raleigh professional advisors has teamed up to launch a new business development advisory program that they hope will improve entrepreneurs’ chances of success. Click Here To Read
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Morrisville, NC	RTP Product Guild Announces Pig Pickin Business Morrisville - The newly formed professional guild of product designers, developers and technology commercialization experts, called the RTP Product Development Guild, announced its first business networking event set for August 4, 2007. “We wanted to have a fun business networking family-friendly social event to encourage the RTP design community to come and see our new facilities in Morrisville,” said Montie Roland, President of the Guild. Click Here to Read
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Morrisville, NC	New Product Development Guild connects entrepreneu By Allan Maurer RALEIGH, NC—An entrepreneur with an idea for a new product usually has to develop it to a certain stage before it’s possible to obtain angel or venture funding, but may find it tough finding expert help to get it there. The RTP Product Development Guild, which is holding a business networking event Saturday in Morrisville, wants to fill that development gap. Click Here to Read
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Morrisville, NC	Turning Ideas into Reality – That’s Goal of New ‘P Turning Ideas into Reality – That’s Goal of New ‘Product Pipeline’ Feature By RICK SMITH, WRAL Local Tech Wire Editor Posted: Jul. 31, 2007 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Since its launch 5 ½ years ago, WRAL Local Tech Wire has made coverage of entrepreneurs, inventors, researchers and those who finance them its primary mission. Today, we launch a new feature with the intention of providing additional information that we believe will prove helpful to those people who want to start a business or want to commercialize a product or invention. Click Here
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Morrisville, NC	RTP Product Development Guild’s vendor exhibit and RTP Product Development Guild’s vendor exhibit and street fair a success 08-06-2007  MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- The bouncing moonwalk exhibit for children may have been the coolest event at the RTP Product Development Guild’s vendor exhibit and street fair, held at the Guild’s offices on Saturday. While their kids were bouncing on the moonwalk, product developers, venture capitalists, and engineers from as far away as Greensboro, NC and Washington, NC toured the booths and talked with vendors who provide services for product developers, designers and engineers in the RTP area. Click Here
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Morrisville NC	Patent issued to Guild's Vice President   Patent issued to MYOWNFUND investment advisor RALEIGH, NC--The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent to the North Carolina investment advisor to MyOwnFund, an online investment management company. MyOwnFund is managed by Thomas E. Vass, a registered investment advisor located in Raleigh.
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Morrisville, NC	The Rule of Law, the Rule of Trust and the 50-Mile The Rule of Law, the Rule of Trust and the 50-Mile Rule of Private Capital Markets RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK — In his book, "The Mystery of Capital," comparing economic development initiatives around the world, Hernando DeSoto emphasizes the rule of law and private property rights as the two essential ingredients to North America’s economic success. Click Here
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