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Heinen's: A New CLE Startup and Destination
- CLE has a new startup downtown. While the company may be 85 years old, their new downtown location has all the best attributes of a startup: risky, shiny, innovative, disruptive, and potentially highly profitable. Having visited many food emporiums around the world I can say with some assurance that Heinen's rotunda ...more
Flashstarts Live Q&A: Round #2
- Last week we held Flashstarts Program Q&A, a live discussion about our startup accelerator program with our co-founders via Google Hangout. This was the first time we've held a virtual info session about our program. We had a lot of great questions come in, so we've decided we're going to continue this ...more
Vestor poised for success: RE Crowdfunding $2.5B
- Vestor is poised for a big, big year. They are the only regional player in the real estate crowdfunding space. A space which is spreading from a $1B industry in a few coastal cities to $2.5b in the next year across many new markets. "Real-estate crowdfunding was a $1 billion industry ...more
OVA Summit
- I am really looking forward to hearing new County Executive Armond Budish keynote at the Ohio Venture Summit this Friday March 6 at CCC Corporate College. I will be disappointed if we don't get some new County initiatives announced in the area of regional economic development. We are on a ...more
Cleveland Startup Accelerator Names 2014 Follow-on Funding Recipients
- As we are in the process of accepting applications to our 2015 summer accelerator program and raise funds for the Flashstarts 2015 Fund, we are excited to finally announce the Class of 2014 startups receiving follow-on funding. More details are in the press release below. Cleveland Startup Accelerator Names 2014 Follow-on ...more
