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A NEOSA blog post featuring FlashStarts NEOSA, the Northeast Ohio Software Association, published a great interview with our CEO Charles Stack yesterday. NEOSA is an industry-led, member-driven organization working to support the technology industry of Northeast Ohio. The organization is part of the COSE Technology Network, and is also one of our Demo Day sponsors. NEOSA's interview with Charles gives another sneak peek of what you can expect to see at our Demo Day on Monday, September 23rd. Five Questions with FlashStarts NEOSA: What can we expect to see at demo day? Can people invest that day? FlashStarts: We'll have a keynote presentation…

CEO Charles Stack Featured in Crain’s Cleveland FlashStarts CEO Charles Stack was featured in a Crain’s Cleveland Business article published today, as one of five business owners who have navigated the transition of life after selling a company. The article illustrates Charles’ experiences exiting as a serial entrepreneur and his plans for the future. Selling two businesses inspire entrepreneur’s new accelerator Charles Stack's history of starting and selling companies reads like a thriller on the fast-track to a movie option...The process of determining what he wants from his post-sale life hasn't been difficult for Mr. Stack. With FlashStarts, he's doing…

Front Page of the PD Business Tuesday Great coverage for FlashStarts teams on the front page of the Cleveland PD Tuesday Business Section. Stack said the students' ideas at FlashStarts vary greatly, from healthcare companies and one that offers independent films online to a company that plans to develop software for major corporations that will increase database performance by 10 times. Accelerator participants offered varying reasons for applying for the summer opportunity, but Stack believes he knows why they decided to spend the summer with him. "The reason they would come here is I have experience in taking an idea…

Silicon Rust Belt Coverage "...Cleveland is a spectacular location: we have not one but four seasons, the greatest amount of fresh water on the planet, high-speed air travel, high-speed Internet, and a huge inventory of low- priced homes built in the 19 teens and 20’s with unmatched quality. Combine that with great people and great schools, why would anybody want to live anywhere else?” “The most fun time in a startup is in the very beginning. It’s like standing in the middle of a giant field surrounded by forest,” said Mr. Stack... “My thinking with FlashStarts was if one startup…

Me and My Shower Crain's Cleveland covered the launch of FlashStarts with a nice and accurate piece in the Reporter's Notebook. On the blog, he said he plans to highlight his mistakes and failures — or “pending successes,” as he calls them — because he believes they can be instructive. “When you're in a space that's so new, so revolutionary, asking what other people's opinions are is a recipe for cowardice. Nobody gets it,” Mr. Stack said (Kudos to Chuck Soder for his always precise reporting)