{"id":7609,"date":"2010-07-13T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=7609"},"modified":"2018-08-07T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T18:38:09","slug":"rhode-island-woos-38-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/rhode-island-woos-38-studios\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island Woos 38 Studios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/38studios-logo-S.jpg\" alt=\"38studios-logo-S\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/>JULY 13, 2010 \u2022 The state of Rhode Island is wooing 38 Studios LLC with up to $75 million in loan guarantees to move from nearby Maynard, Mass. Rhode Island recently set aside a total of $125 million to attract technology companies to the state. Commercial banks would issue the loans, but the state would guarantee them. Massachusetts, however, does not have a similar program. 38 Studios was founded and is owned by former Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: DFC Intelligence analyst David Cole recently spoke in Cambridge, Mass. at the Business in Gaming (BiG) conference sponsored by the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.\u00a0 Ironically one of the panels was &#8220;The State of the Gaming Industry in Massachusetts.&#8221;\u00a0 The issue was what government incentives the state of Massachusetts could use to attract game companies.\u00a0 One of the panelists was 38 Studios head Curt Schilling.\u00a0 What became clear from the panel was that outside of a great educational base, Massachusetts does not necessarily have a lot to offer.\u00a0 Being right next door to Massachusetts, Rhode Island can tap directly into that educational base and become a direct competitor for companies looking to locate in New England.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JULY 13, 2010 \u2022 The state of Rhode Island is wooing 38 Studios LLC with up to $75 million in loan guarantees to move from nearby Maynard, Mass. Rhode Island recently set aside a total of $125 million to attract technology companies to the state. Commercial banks would issue the loans, but the state would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[313,78],"tags":[129,424,415],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13963,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/13963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}