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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Today UEC Electronics has increased its workforce more than tenfold, from that original 10 to now 115, and is considered a key government contractor.

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Startup Accelerator/Funding Opportunity: AEP’s IlluminationLAB

The Startup Magazine

Based at AEP headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, USA, the Lab will accelerate startups by collaborating on use cases and trialing products at scale. Successful candidates will be co-located at AEP offices in Columbus, Ohio and will access data, gather insights and aim to test their products/services in live customer environments.

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, a $50 million grant prize that went to Columbus, Ohio, in 2016.

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Unlocking the potential for Big Data in 2014

The Next Web

It’s also the year that data was demonised—everything from government leaks to questions surrounding privacy and personal security has turned our idea of data from a neutral concept of tiny bits of information to a murky shadow that follows us around whether we want it to or not. Let’s not forget that Columbus wasn’t setting out for America!

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Ohio Innovation, Gonzeaux #3 — Avoiding a Beating in Over-the-Rhine

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

The urban neighbourhoods in Cleveland, Columbus, and Dayton, to name a few, are all desperate places with large numbers of unemployed. There are a few good news innovation stories in Ohio, like Over-the Rhine, but clearly not enough.

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How to Start a Daycare Business

Up and Running

To get a sense of how to start a daycare business, we talked with Lindsey Roemen, owner of Lindsey’s Family Daycare in Larchwood, Iowa, and Shalonda Owens, owner of Fruitful Trees Learning Center in Columbus, Ohio, about their experiences as daycare owners.

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How Female Entrepreneurs Are Redefining the Business Culture Worldwide

Women Entrepreneurs Can

For instance, the talented and creative Jeni Britton Bauer, also the keeper of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream, based in Columbus, Ohio, has more than 15 ice cream shops across the country. That said, the business idea for ice cream production has served many women worldwide in creating a successful business.