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Bob Cohen, the CEO of the Braintree Business Development Center, says crowdfunding sites are starting to pay more and more attention to Ohio.When Richard Rodman, Supradeep Kumar, Rohan Kusre, Arkopaul Sarkar, and Chad Stroud were trying to market FlashCrop, a mobile phone application designed to help students create digital flash cards, they felt like they […]

 Few New Frontier tech grants awarded to small towns Written by Jessie Balmert CentralOhio.com mansfieldnewsjournal.com Eleven years ago, then-Gov. Bob Taft rolled out his Third Frontier Commission to bring high-tech companies to locations across the state, but grants rarely go to businesses outside of Ohio’s largest cities. Taft pitched his program in the 2002 State […]

Foodie'nomics: Trends in Northeast Ohio's Food and Agri "Culture"Moderator:• Bob Cohen, CEO Braintree Business Development CenterPanelists:• David Moss, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing OfficerEmerging Chefs• Steve Schimoler, Chef/Owner Crop Bistro & Bar• Keith Pabley, Founder Good Greens• Tom Lix, Founder Cleveland WhiskeyOVA meetings are generally dominated by heavy subjects. They tend to cover innovations in advanced […]

YBI reveals studies By Jamison Cocklin This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it YOUNGSTOWNTwo studies released Thursday show the Youngstown Business Incubator has a far-reaching economic impact, which it believes will bolster an already strong reputation and attract more startup companies.Going forward, like other nonprofits across the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]