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Startup businesses all have one thing in common — they need someone to believe in them.One Poland resident has received more than a million dollars in investments for his tech company. Here’s how he got started.“We thought there was a problem and we didn’t come to the market selling a solution looking for a problem,” […]

The City of Mansfield was the nation's No. 5 city in job losses over the last year, according to a website citing figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For October, the number of jobs declined from 50,576 the previous year to 49,399, a 2.33 percent loss.Most cities showed an increased number of jobs over […]

MANSFIELD - Mark Hess — who as a teen turned a fascination for machinery into a roadside business, working with his grandfather to make and sell two-wheeled carts off Ohio 39 — fell in love with the machine trades.This fall, he moved his 16-year-old company, Hess Industries Lt., out of space rented from Braintree, to […]

The CEO of VentureOhio spreads the word about companies worth investing in across Ohio.She’s slight in stature, but “diminutive” is not a term anyone applies to Falon Donohue after experiencing the energy she brings to her role as CEO of VentureOhio. Dynamo is more like it.VentureOhio is a statewide catalyst to magnify efforts of community-based […]

MANSFIELD - Dan DeVille, area manager for FirstEnergy — who became a heavy hitter on Mansfield area community boards during his seven years in that job — will leave for a new job in Cleveland with the utility he works for around the end of the year.DeVille has been named director of external affairs for […]

A Lorain County Community College-led partnership has received a nearly $500,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration's i6 Challenge.The initiative, which is called the Northeast Ohio Regional Acceleration in Digital Innovation, or NEO ReADI, will "support innovation and commercialization of key technologies anchored in the region," according to a news release from the college.Lorain […]

The Ohio Small Business Development Center (OSBDC) at Kent State University at Tuscarawas was recently awarded the 2016 Ohio SBDC Customer Satisfaction Recognition at the November OSBDC Statewide Conference in Columbus. The award is based upon client satisfaction surveys and net provider scores. This is the first year the award was presented.“It was especially nice […]

Home to some of the nation’s most prominent healthcare systems, banking institutions, insurance and other professional services, Northeast Ohio is progressively establishing itself as a financial technology (fintech) hub. To that end, the region boasts more than 6,500 finance and insurance establishments, employing some 68,000 workers. Representatives from across Ohio recently had the opportunity to […]

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission late last week awarded up to $28.2 million to JumpStart Inc., Braintree, and 11 others in the Northeast Ohio ESP Network, a group of entrepreneurial support organizations.The awards cover three years and require matching dollars from non-state public, private and philanthropic supporters in order to access the state resources, according […]

MANSFIELD - Schmidt Security Pro hasn't survived 40 years without being able to adapt.The company has evolved to the changing demands of the industry."I started with polygraph testing," founder and CEO Bill Schmidt said. "We added investigation, guard service and camera surveillance."Schmidt Security Pro has been at its current location at 241 Industrial Parkway since […]