Entrepreneur Programs : Featured Stories

Q&A: Steven Weathers gives an inside look at the future of northwest Ohio

Colin McEwen Thursday, May 20, 2010

Steven Weathers, president and CEO of the Regional Growth Partnership, knows that the automotive industry isn't likely to come back to northwest Ohio anytime soon � and he's OK with that.

Bowling Green State University, Entrepreneur Programs, Third Frontier, Toledo/Northwest Ohio, University of Toledo

Toledo

Appalachian Ohio moving fast toward high-tech future

Val Prevish Thursday, March 25, 2010

Geoff Greenfield is an example of the type of entrepreneur who is becoming the modern face of the economy in Appalachian Ohio. As founder and president of Third Sun Solar and Wind Power in Athens, Greenfield is part of a thriving alternative energy industry that is making its home in Athens County.

Advanced and Alternative Energy, Appalachia/Southeast Ohio, Biomedical, Entrepreneur Programs, High Tech, Ohio University, Third Frontier, Venture Capital

Athens

Seamless connect between programs, capital, credited with Ohio's high-tech rise

Gene Monteith Thursday, February 11, 2010

Tony Giordano has been around the block. He's started successful companies in both Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He has a good job as assistant dean of research and business development at Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. So why is he moving his new cardiovascular company from Louisiana to Cleveland? Quite simply, he says, there's no place like Ohio.

Advanced Materials, biomedical, Entrepreneur Programs, Pre-Seed Funds, Third Frontier, Venture Capital

Unique partnership aims to get docs off drawing board, into marketplace

Gene Monteith Thursday, December 17, 2009

If you were to walk into Jeffrey Van Buren's physical therapy practice, you might see him working with clients using a self-designed platform that helps muscles react more quickly when presented with unexpected challenges. Van Buren now has dreams of getting his unique apparatus into the marketplace. And while that goal is still a dream, an innovative collaboration between his employer and TechColumbus is making it closer to reality every day.

Biomedical, Columbus/Central Ohio, Entrepreneur Programs

Columbus

Q&A: "Chief Evangelist" preaches the virtues of a revived Youngstown

Colin McEwen Thursday, December 17, 2009

Jim Cossler, an entrepreneurial expert, is chief executive officer of the Youngstown Business Incubator. He is also known as an "Chief Evangelist." His gospel? Spreading the good word about the growth and development of small businesses in the Youngstown area.

Appalachia/Southeast Ohio, Cleveland/Northeast Ohio, Entrepreneur Programs, Information Technology

Youngstown

Q&A: Ray Leach explains Ohio's bullish venture capital climate

Gene Monteith Thursday, November 05, 2009

For every entrepreneur with a great idea, for every young company that wants to expand, the same question looms large: Where will we get the money to gain traction? Until a few years ago, the answer for most Ohio firms was "not here." hiVelocity spoke with JumpStart's Chief Executive Officer Ray Leach about the turnaround in Ohio's venture capital environment.

Cleveland/Northeast Ohio, Entrepreneur Programs, Third Frontier, Venture Capital