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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Her local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a resources partner of the SBA, assisted them in developing marketing materials that effectively showcased the company’s unusual range of proficiencies. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond. With the SBA’s help, however, Columbus was able to diversify its business.

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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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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. As an entrepreneur, you’re always fighting that external war whether that’s with partners or with investors. Drive Capital came in (to Columbus).

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Innovation and Implementation at BMW’s Collaboration Lab

The Startup Magazine

The BMW Financial Services Collaboration Lab accelerator program provides entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small businesses in fintech and other fields with the opportunity to partner with BMW to develop and realize innovative solutions and game-changing new technologies. Collaboration is where innovation and implementation meet.”.

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We Raised $50m+ To Back New Venture Capitalists Who Don’t Look Like Me

Hunter Walker

Partnering With Other VCs To Get This Done. I call it “Columbus’ing” – the tendency in tech for individuals new to spaces already inhabited to pronounce “look what I discovered!” And we’re all LPs (investors) in the fund itself, which means we have skin in the game.

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NYEBN Startup Pitch Series 5 @ Samsung Experience

David Teten

I hope you’ll join us at the upcoming NYEBN Startup Pitch Series 5 at Samsung Experience, Columbus Circle, next May 26. Panel: David Teten – Chairman @ Harvard Business School Angels New York & CEO @ Navon Partners. Peg Jackson – Managing Partner @ Cava Capital.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Actively involved in the local startup community, Brian is a Startup Weekend Columbus host and MC at the monthly morning pitch event for entrepreneurs, WakeUp StartUp. We did three iterations of the product in less than 12 months, each one progressively going off of different consumer metrics that we found and then partner feedback.

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