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Startups Call For Renewal of Ohio Third Frontier
Startups from across the state recently testified before the Ohio House of Representatives’ Committee on Economic Development regarding the impact the Ohio Third Frontier program has had on their businesses and on the advancement of the state’s 21st Century global economy. Three Central Ohio startups, including HTP, Inc.(now RelayHealth HTP), Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc. and InsightETE, Inc., were called upon to testify before the committee.
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2009 TechColumbus Innovation Awards
The annual Innovation Awards showcase our region’s many achievements by honoring its top innovators. It is a night of networking, prestige, and celebration. From a record number of nominees, winners in 13 award categories will be announced on February 4, 2010. Download our event parking map.
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A Growing and Vibrant Tech Community Make Central Ohio “the Right Place” to Start a Venture
“Starting a business is like many other of life’s decisions – buying a house, having children, going back to school – there may never be a perfect time,” says entrepreneur Brain Zuercher. “But if you’re going to take that leap, there’s no better place to do it than in Central Ohio.” [Read More]
Unique partnership aims to get docs off drawing board, into marketplace
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, who says he never envisioned himself as an inventor, 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. [Read More]
Thirty Women Entrepreneurs to Follow On Twitter
On her blog, Natalie MacNeil, a writer for Forbes, has provided a list of women entrepreneurs on Twitter who dispense business advice and insights for launching and sustaining an female owned entrepreneurial venture. These women include best-selling business author and Wall Street Journal columnist Alexandra Levit, Cindy Ratzlaff, a marketing strategist who advises how to create buzz for your brand, and Mirie Fraser who tweets inspirational quotes and insights for entrepreneurs to who almost 12,000 followers. [Read More]
Ask an Angel: How Can Angels and Entrepreneurs Improve the Valuation Process?
It has fallen upon angels to educate entrepreneurs about the realities of compressed valuations in today’s economy, especially since VCs are supporting very few up-rounds today. John Huston, founder of the Ohio TechAngel Funds in Columbus, talks about a successful and innovative approach to negotiating valuation with entrepreneurs.
ACEF: Compared to your traditional approaches to valuation, Ohio TechAngels is now doing things differently. [Read More]
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