Cashing In On 'CookieGate'

Thursday, April 26, 2012 How One Baker Is Cashing In On 'CookieGate' A Mitt Romney gaffe has brought a wave of customers to one Pennsylvania mom-and-pop. Bethel Bakery, a 57-year-old Pittsburgh staple, found itself in the national spotlight after Romney compared its cookies to snacks found at 7-Eleven. The slip-up came last week when the GOP presidential candidate met with local residents at an outdoor lunch in Bethel Park, Pa., during which he joked about a batch of cookies. TYPE CAST Venture Capital Firm Giving Half of Profits To Charity The 10 Fastest-Growing Industries It's Time To Thank The 'Pam' In Your Life The Water Bottle That Syncs With Your iPhone BLOG POSTS Christopher Hytry Derrington: The JOBS Act Is Now Law -- So Now What? Thousands of us entrepreneurs will benefit from the JOBS Act. This could become a very viable and exciting way for small companies to raise capital. But not yet. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has nine months to draw up the regulations. Mary Ellen Biery: Does Size Matter? Privately held companies have a huge impact on the U.S. economy, and new data shows that sales and margin performance through the recession and so far in the recovery has varied, depending on the size of the company. Craig K. Comstock: Space Wealth As the current brouhaha about asteroid mining shows, visionaries may toil quietly until famous or rich people decide to enact an idea. Richard Komaiko: How Chicago Is Becoming More Viable for Startups What brought our startup back to Chicago? Talent. That's right -- we had to leave Silicon Valley and come to Chicago to find talent. Popular wisdom says that the talent is all out in the Valley, but my experience suggests otherwise. Eric M. Jackson: 5 Tech Deals That Need to Happen While there's no way to know which big deal will next grace the pages of GigaOM, allow me to offer a few humble recommendations. Here are five tech deals that make sense and why they need to happen.

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