Organizational changes, focused investment and commitment to the process disciplines, fundamental to our business, have all contributed to these steadily improving results.

The Iraq situation just seems to hang over business investment decisions, which is critical right now, ... Unfortunately, we're dependent upon enterprise spending. We're seeing signs that telecom is starting to catch on. But if you look at a company like Cisco, where two-thirds of their business is tied to enterprise spending, we're still in this quagmire.

Skip Simms has a strong background bridging the equity investment and business worlds. Skip's experience will be extremely valuable in enabling SPARK to accelerate and retain innovation-focused companies in our region.

We have a 60- to 80-year (limestone) reserve. I think this investment proves our commitment to the community.

The biggest investment, in fact, is the time [commitment]. We typically charge $995 per month for these meetings, which is not a big hurdle for the members.

Keeping streamlined and up-to-date is crucial in this business. Without the capital investment to bring our entire production line up to speed, we'd never have gotten there.