The best place to live and launch 

The secret is finally out of the bag: Bethlehem is one of the nation’s “best places to live and launch.” The area is a high-tech hotbed that CNNMoney says “will feed your soul and nurture your business.” It’s a well-earned reputation driven in part by the folks at Ben Franklin Technology Partners; the incubator they own and manage has successfully launched 54 technology companies and created more than 5,200 new jobs since 1983.   

The editors of Inc.com know their story well. It’s why the named Ben Franklin TechVentures® as one of the nation’s top ten “Start-up Incubators to Watch” this past year while the Pennsylvania Economic Development Association awarded the facility’s expansion Project of the Year 2011.   

On April 27, join us as we visit the Ben Franklin TechVentures incubator/post-incubator facility to learn just how Ben Franklin President and CEO Chad Paul and his team have supported aspiring technology entrepreneurs in the greater Lehigh Valley with one of the best incubators of the world. We’ll also take a tour of TechVentures and see why TechVentures²—the new, 47,000-square-foot addition—earned first-place national honors in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2011 ENERGY STAR Challenge.