The founder of two Greater Cincinnati IT companies, John Bostick has seen his share of struggles as the the economy has sputtered. But the serial entrepreneur remains undeterred.
Ohio voters will decide the future of Ohio Third Frontier on May 4. The program is the underpinning of CincyTech’s work to create jobs and support entrepreneurs in Southwest Ohio.
BioOhio has been awarded a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration to implement the Ohio Bioscience Industry Workforce Preparedness project.
Akebia Therapeutics has initiated dosing for a phase 1b trial of AKB-6548, an orally bioavailable hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) in development for anemia.
The Hamilton County Business Center is expanding services, offering office space to companies that want to stick around after their incubation phase end. Featured by Soapbox Media.
Ohio legislators have passed a resolution that will place the Ohio Third Frontier economic development program before Ohio voters on May 4. The renewal would provide $700 million over four years.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Ohio's Third Frontier program already has created nearly 10,000 new jobs and $300 million in tax revenues since it was approved in 2005.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital has opened a ground breaking $600,000 Pluripotent Stem Cell Facility, the first of its kind in Ohio, Indiana or Kentucky.
Right Side Capital Management discusses the size of the "professional" angels market segment in seed and early stage startup investments since 2004, which averaged $23.3 billion per year.
The Business & Finance practice published an e-Bulletin entitled "Taft Attorney Bobrow Writes Ohio Venture Association Position Paper to Support Renewal of the the Ohio Third Frontier Program".
Since May 2007, CincyTech has invested in 11 portfolio companies and helped create 175 jobs in Southwest Ohio.
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All great entrepreneurs begin with a great idea. Great ideas cross all lines of gender and culture. Two of the nation's most successful technology companies - Software House International Inc., headquartered in Somerset, N.J., with $2.6 billion in 2005 revenues, and World Wide Technology Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, with $1.8 billion in 2005 revenues - are minority- or women-owned businesses.
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