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MANSFIELD – Braintree Business Development Center CEO Bob Cohen will present “The Role of Gender in Communication” at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 16, in the Community Room at the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library, 43 W. Third St.It is a free, educational and light-hearted lecture sponsored by the Women’s Fund of the Richland County Foundation […]

MANSFIELD – If you are interested in developing a business idea, need help with your existing business or have a product and don't know what to do next, resource people at the Braintree Business Development Center may be able to help at one of their monthly Caffeinated Ideas sessions. The next session is from 10 […]

MANSFIELD, Ohio – Braintree tenant Steve McKown, the entrepreneur featured in the Eye on Entrepreneurs series last May for his marketing business MoCoopinz, has since rebranded the company to become TextLoyal. “We are still MoCoopinz LLC, doing business as TextLoyal,” said McKown. “It’s hard to make a name change, but it went pretty smoothly and […]

COLUMBUS – Falon Donohue, a 2001 Crestview High School graduate, has been named executive director of VentureOhio.In this role, Donohue will be responsible for advancing VentureOhio’s mission of assuring abundant capital for all stages of entrepreneurial companies, strengthening resources in Ohio for building high-growth businesses and increasing awareness of Ohio’s entrepreneurial successes.John McIlwraith, chairman of […]

MANSFIELD, Ohio - Figg’s Liquid Innovations has been in business for four years, and although founder Korinna Goettel said she’d hoped to be further along at this point, she said that things are going well.“It’s almost as though you have to pay your dues,” Goettel said. “It’s almost as if, until you get to a […]

Businesses can use many portals for crowdfunding, and yet relatively few CPGs and even retailers leverage this resource. A great article by Linda Martz shows how Braintree CEO Bob Cohen shared advice for using these platforms at a recent workshop. I think there is untapped opportunity, especially for smaller brands to get enough exposure to […]

MANSFIELD – Canadian teenager Simon Tan raised more than $800,000 on Kickstarter to launch his own smart watch, Neptune Pine, in late 2013.He'd set a goal of $100,000, but the allure of a wearable tech product and an interview on the Fox News Channel attracted funds from hundreds of strangers.Braintree CEO Bob Cohen told Ohio-based […]

AUSTIN, Texas--When Crestline alum and Mansfield resident Scott Gatchall entered Inmobly in the South by Southwest Accelerator competition back in October, he knew they were in for stiff competition. What he could not have predicted was that they would emerge as one of only eighteen finalists for the prestigious award. The South by Southwest (SXSW) […]

The Innovation Fund, Northeast Ohio's most active early-stage fund for technology-based startups, has injected $400,000 into seven of the region’s most promising young companies. Four companies received $25,000 awards aimed at validating technologies while three received $100,000 awards meant to prove business models. Here are the latest winners:Apollo Medical Devices ($25,000 | Cleveland) is developing […]

Don’t call it an office. The spaces home to Ohio’s incubators are more akin to beehives – honeycombs of workspaces that are fostering the ideas of the state’s brightest entrepreneurs. Walking down the hallway of an incubator, you can practically feel the creativity. Passing workspace after workspace, you are floored by the innovation and the […]