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Oklahoma has two cities ranked among the top the nation’s top 10 for fostering young entrepreneurs, according to Forbes magazine.

The recent SeedStep Angels Capital Forum in Tulsa provided a preview for potential members of the type of Oklahoma investment opportunities that angels see on a regular basis.

Here is some good news for i2E clients and economic development newsmakers across Oklahoma. A new Oklahoma-based news service called JustGoodNews.BIZ has discovered you.

The inaugural 1 Million Cups event in Tulsa drew an audience of 80 people to a downtown coffee shop to hear presentations by a pair of entrepreneurs.

The 2013 OKBio BrewFest on Tuesday night turned out to be an awesome event for well more than 300 people who attended the event at the Harn Homestead in Oklahoma City.

Local, Oklahoma-made craft beers will be available to beer fans who attend the Oct. 29 OKBio BrewFest at the Harn Homestead in Oklahoma City. It’s all for a good cause.

i2E Venture Advisor and SeedStep Angels Manager Mike Pratt stepped into an unfamiliar role with a bit of “bad theater” at Wednesday’s meeting of the Oklahoma Venture Forum.

Biotechnology Industry Organization President James Greenwood emailed a letter highlighting the ways that the JOBS Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, can benefit life science companies.

A highlight of the 2013 OKBio BrewFest was the Beer Trivia contest that challenged participants to answer 10 tough questions about their favorite subject.

Before life science entrepreneurs can raise millions of dollars to finance their new businesses, they’ve got to learn to dance, Jack Anthony told an Oklahoma audience at the PHF Conference Center last Friday.

On a recent visit to Express Ranches cattle operation near Yukon is that it is one of Oklahoma’s most high-tech businesses, regardless of industry.

Thanks to the Innovation Daily blog, I saw this interesting interactive graphic that compares the financial status of every state, plus Washington, D.C.

Over the past decade, one of the most intriguing people I met while pursuing biosciences stories has been Dr. Paul DeAngelis.

Check out the new “Oklahoma Now” video produced by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. Makes us all proud to be Oklahomans!

Oklahoma City’s PatientLink among Oklahoma companies recognized on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing privately held small companies in the United States.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration recently announced that Southwest Oklahoma State University and Rogers State University are two of the winners in its 2013 University Center Economic Development Program Competition.

Oklahoma City University student Karla Ferrari recently completed a 10-week tenure as an i2E Fellow. She shares her insights on the Fellowship in this blog post.

The focus of last week’s bootcamp workshop was to learn about developing and testing a business model for the team’s technology or startup.

EpimedX co-founders Dr. Robert Broyles, left, and Dr. Robert Floyd, right, visit with Mark Henry, founder of Grow Emerging Cos., a consulting business that assists researchers and small businesses with the SBIR application process.

Tulsa’s ICEdot has partnered with electronics manufacturing giant Flextronics International to manufacture the company’s innovative in case of emergency crash sensor.