Archive for posts tagged ‘cleveland’
DIY Startup School Cleveland-style
Kevin Day, May 22nd, 2008Although the official Startup School was last month at Stanford, there was enough startup activity in Clevleand last week to constitute it’s own mini startup school.
Thursday was Cleveland Startup Drinks, which was a great chance to talk with other startup founders.
Saturday was the SCORE business workshop that was a half-day of informative talks by an accountant, a lawyer, and a bank president about how to develop a business plan, incorporate a business, and finance a business. This was the first time I had heard of SCORE, and it looks like a valuable resource for new businesses. They are a large group of retired business executives that offer free counseling. What could be better than that?
Lastly, on Sunday morning Craig Newmark spoke at the CWRU commencement ceremony. It wasn’t quite as inspriational as the real startup school talks, but it was a taste of Silicon Valley nonetheless.
Sunny in Cleveland?
Kevin Day, November 19th, 2007The PD writes that a German solar company is strongly considering moving manufacturing jobs to Cleveland. They only employ 200 people globally, but it’s still a good sign for Cleveland. Good ‘ol CWRU is one of the key factors in their decision too. A company representative had this to say:
“We were impressed by the ready access to the research environment. That is critical to us — access to research universities,” he said. “We had a very promising meeting with Case Western Reserve University.”
It’s not official though, and it depends a lot on new energy legislation currently being debated in Columbus. I’m ashamed to say I don’t know much about the bill, so I’m going to read up on it and contact my representative so that I can help make this happen.
