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Crowdfunding Campaigns Help Propel Northeast Ohio Businesses
Posted by ThePlus - 11.01.2012Entrepreneurs, small business owners, artists, designers, developers and anyone looking to fund an innovative idea now have a new source of capital – crowdfunding. This new phenomenon is steadily gaining momentum across the nation and Northeast Ohio is no exception.Much like the name suggests, crowdfunding involves pooling the resources from any […]
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Braintree at Life Sciences Baltics Conference
Braintree, BioOhio, CWRU, and the City of Akron explore Baltic Opportunities Spreading the BioOhio message in the Baltics by Schutte on September 13, 2012 Earlier this week, BioOhio’s Scott Osborne spoke at Life Sciences Baltics 2012 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It marked the first time BioOhio has played the Baltics. Event organizers invited Scott to discuss “Bringing […]
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Braintree Grows Small Businesses
Written by Bob Leach    Friday, 27 July 2012 11:56 MANSFIELD -- Mansfield industries have been in a state of flux since many of the city's top manufacturers and employers closed their doors. The 2010 departure of Ontario's General Motors stamping plant left numerous entrepreneurs uncertain about their businesses and residents worried more jobs would […]
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Three Braintree tenants featured in Mansfield News Journal
MANSFIELD -- Former GM worker Sidney Brown's family is like many across Richland County. The Browns are weathering a 40-year transition the Mansfield area is making from "factory town" to a far more diverse economy.Brown, like many workers of his generation, found a job at the General Motor's Ontario plant in 1960. He worked there […]
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Biobased Marketing for Ohio Companies
Companies with Biobased products learn how to market thier products. Cleveland, Oh June 6, 2012 Braintree, CIFT, and Ohio Soybean Counsel host "Biobased Marketing" seminar at the JumpStart campus in Cleveland. Dr. David Ash, Senior Vice President Farmer Lumpe + McClelland (FLM)., helped companies with biobased products identify, develope and plan the implimentation of marketing […]
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TechColumbus Selects Tom D Walker as new CEO
Techcolumbus Selects Walker As Chief Executive Officer May 16, 2012 Columbus, OH - The TechColumbus Board of Directors announces the appointment of Tom D. Walker as the new CEO. "Tom is a nationally recognized leader in technology commercialization as well as company and job creation," said Ray Shealy, Search Committee Chair. "He is a transformational […]
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Braintree Business Development Center sponsors Kent State University nanotechnology session
Mansfield's Braintree Business Development Center, in conjunction with the Center for Innovative Food Technology, recently sponsored a nanotechnology workshop at the Tuscarawas campus of Kent State University. The event highlighted the nanotechnology that creates antimicrobial qualities in surfaces found in large kitchens, schools, hospitals, nursing homes and the like. Bob Cohen is the CEO of […]
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Three Area Entrepreneurs are Recipients of Tech Sprout’s Product Development Grants
Three Area Entrepreneurs are Recipients of Tech Sprout’s Product Development GrantsMansfield, OH, April 4, 2012—Braintree Business Development Center is pleased to announce three Tech Sprout grant awards. The awards range from $2,000 to $6,000, and help entrepreneurs develop prototypes or purchase inventory for market entry. Those three start-up companies are bringing new technology to industries […]
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Appleseed microloan project launched in Ohio
Tuesday, September 20, 2011Microdinero Staff The Braintree Business Development Center has launched the Appleseed Micro-Loan Program to help small businesses in the North Central Ohio. The Mansfield, Ohio-based center will provide loans of US$1,000 to US$35,000 to help home-based and other small companies buy equipment, build inventory, restructure debt and for use as working capital […]
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Capital crítico con Appleseed Microfinance
martes 20 de septiembre de 2011Redacción Microdinero El Braintree Business Development Center y la organización JumpStart Inc anunciaron formalmente el lanzamiento de Appleseed Microfinance, un fondo de crédito que ofrecerá sumas relativamente pequeñas de capital -de US$ 1.000 a 35.000- a pequeños negocios que exhiban gran potencial y atraviesen coyunturas críticas en su desarrollo. El […]
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