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The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: One of the things about the kinds of companies that we uncover and work with is that they are in need of a great deal of help. Rather than a large, urban, metropolitan area where a company that is very early stage may come with a
An Interview With Ankur Jain, Founder And President, Kairos Society (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ankur: Today, in this interconnected world, you can have a Chinese entrepreneur start a company with an American entrepreneur. You can take the best of both countries to create a single company that’s inherently multinational and multicultural. This product can be, from day one, sold in two
The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold John: Another example might be developing a prototype or, in the case of a really early stage company, protecting the intellectual property through obtaining patent assistance. So, all of those are things that are needed to take risk out of an opportunity. They require resources that often
The Third Frontier In The Midwest: An Interview With John Glazer, Director, TechGROWTH Ohio (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold In this interview I am talking to John Glazer, director of TechGROWTH Ohio. This Athens-based, state-supported program has offered resources and funding to early stage, technologically innovative companies in the state of Ohio since 2007.
An Interview With Ankur Jain, Founder And President, Kairos Society (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Ankur Jain, a 20-year-old student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and founder and president of the Kairos Society. (Kairos, in Greek, means “the right moment.”) Ankur’s vision is to shift students’ perception about the business world – to not depend on others
An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: A lot of our population in Maine is pretty concentrated. The benefit of that is you can really power networking within the state, access capital sources, which we help folks with. We’ll make introductions. We’ll do mentoring. We’ll support mentor programs. In the state of Maine,
An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the fees for the peer technical reviews? Joe: There is no application fee to apply to MTI. We will pay the thousands of dollars to go out and get those peer reviews done out of our budget. The internal state folks from industries and
An Interview With Joe Migliaccio, Manager Of Innovative Programs, Maine Technology Institute (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Joe: Many times when investors are approached by companies that just have too high a risk profile for them, but there may be opportunity for them to work further on their technology or grow their businesses, we’ll get leads from private sector individuals who say, “As a
