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Listen to our latest edition of i2E’s Outloud Podcast, where we feature Tailwind’s Danny Maloney and how he build this fast-growing business in Oklahoma City.

Recently Scott Meacham sat down with we to share his thoughts about WeGoLook, economy platforms and Oklahoma City versus the Silicon Valley. Mr. Meacham is the former State Treasurer of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma City has been named one of the nation’s four “Best Cities to become an Entrepreneur by the Investopedia website.

We are happy to share this news of Dean McGee Eye Institute’s milestone celebration. Be sure to click on the video link with founding board of trustees member Jim Tolbert at the end.

The website lockerdome.com recently featured the top entities driving Oklahoma City’s startup community. Some very familiar names are on the list.

Oklahoma City was ranked as the nation’s No. 1 location to start up a new business, according to the Kiplinger personal finance website.

My company, EpimedX, was fortunate to be awarded the OKBio-sponsored BIO scholarship, allowing me to attend the convention for the first time.

Steve Davis was featured in the current OVF newsletter, and had some kind words to say about the excitement he’s seen in the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup.

A pair of Oklahoma City-based companies have been selected as “Buzz of BIO” nominees for the 2014 Biotechnology Industry Organization annual convention.

Here’s an opportunity for Oklahoma companies involved in CleanTech to join the National CleanTech Open Accelerator Program.

Check out this great post in the Wired Innovation Insights blog by Melissa Megginson with Oklahoma City’s Tailwind. Melissa talks about what she’s learned from working at a startup.

Crescendo Bioscience CEO William Hagstrom agreed to share most of his presentation from the 2014 Oklahoma BioSummit on March 26 at the Skirvin Hilton Hotel.

Check out our slide show from the 2014 BioSummit and BioScience Awards Dinner.Read more

AT&T has created a video that focuses on i2E client Sway Medical of Tulsa and its innovative smartphone app that measures balance as a critical clue to the brain health of athletes as a tool for the prevention of concussions.

Blake Trippet had a very good year in 2010. Then a senior at the University of Oklahoma, Trippet was team leader for team UniPhi, which won the Undergraduate Division of the Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup business plan competition.

The Buffalo Lounge came to town this week in a networking event that provided a preview of things to come next month in Austin, Texas. This year’s Buffalo Lounge event will take place at the SXSW festival on March 7-16 in Austin.

San Francisco-based Crescendo Bioscience, which began life as Oklahoma City-based Riley Genomics, was sold earlier this week for $270 million to Myriad Genetics.

Everything came to a halt at my desk for about 30 minutes yesterday when the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s online publication, VeloCity, showed up in my email box.

Editor’s note: i2E’s Michael Kindrat-Pratt, a Venture Advisor and manager of the SeedStep Angels investment group, recently spoke on angel investing at an event for entrepreneurial investors at The Forge in Tulsa.

The countdown to BIO 2014 in San Diego begins this week for Oklahomans who will be part of the OKBio contingent at the giant industry convention.