For Immediate Release

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Oregon Entrepreneurs Network, the organization that connects small companies and potential investors, has announced finalists for its annual awards dinner. The Nominees:

Development Company

• AboutUs Inc., Portland: An advertising-supported wiki of "About Us" pages on company and organization Web sites
• ClearEdge Power, Portland: On-site energy generation for home and small businesses
• Jama Software, Portland: Web-based software for managing for collaborative requirements
• Plas2Fuel Corp., Kelso, Wash.: Recycling plastics into synthetic fuel

Growth Company

• Hemcon Medical Technologies Inc., Portland: Develops products to control bleeding and infection in wounds, and other acute-care issues
• nLight Corp., Vancouver: Photonics for industrial, defense, and medical industries
• Timbercon, Lake Oswego: Fiber-optics manufacturing

Working Capital Company

• ID Experts, Beaverton: Identity theft protection
• Pop Art Inc., Portland: Interactive marketing
• PV Powered Inc., Bend: Inverters for photovoltaic power generation systems

Individual Entrepreneur

• Ray King, CEO and founder, AboutUs.org
• Susan Sokol Blosser, co-founder, Sokol Blosser Winery
• Doug Fieldhouse, CEO, Vesta Corp.

The Tom Holce Awards for Entrepreneurial Achievement, to be held on Sept. 18, honor Holce, a veteran Oregon entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and fostered many other entrepreneurs in his roles as adviser and investor.