By Scott Meacham There is no monopoly on great ideas. Capital begats capital. That’s the drumbeat setting the cadence for the i2E Management Company, Inc. (iMCI). iMCI is a private for-profit investment and fund management firm operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of i2E. iMCI manages more than $90 million across five venture funds. TheRead more
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By Scott Meacham Entrepreneurs and inventors welcome big challenges. Oklahoma City was voted the official state capital on June 11, 1910. That same year the stockyards and meat packing plants opened, and the Cattlemen’s Cafe, Oklahoma’s oldest continually operated restaurant (now Cattlemen’s Steakhouse), started serving great cups of coffee and hefty meals to many ofRead more
By Scott Meacham A big idea creates ripples that can be felt decades later. Entrepreneurship is like tossing a rock into a pond. The rock gives the water energy to create ever-widening rippling circles. As the rock sinks, the surface water flows back to fill the space the rock left behind. Eventually, the pond willRead more
By Scott Meacham Oklahoma State University alumni Ed Roberts is a real life success story with the invention of the Altair 8800 personal computer. About a third of i2E’s clients are in software/IT businesses. We provide services and investment to Oklahoma entrepreneurs who are building high growth companies, so given the low capital asset requirementsRead more
By Scott Meacham Happy New Year! I don’t know if I have ever been so happy to end one year and begin the next. Times remain challenging, but in just the last few weeks, we finally have cause to celebrate. We have a reason to hope that the vaccines that are rolling out will tameRead more
By Scott Meacham It is exciting when Oklahoma startups set out to change industries. That’s the story of Cage, an Oklahoma City company with customers from around the world. Cage provides a web-based tool that helps creative professionals—from freelancers to branding agencies to in-house creative departments—collaborate on projects and share ideas in one place inRead more
So, you’ve been bitten by the entrepreneurial bug and are convinced your idea, concept or prototype will be the next big thing. If only you could get some expert guidance, financing and a network of like-minded advocates to help propel you to success, right? Well, be thankful you live in Tulsa. The city abounds with organizations geared to help would-be entrepreneurs develop their ideas and then launch the businesses of their dreams.
Oklahoma City entrepreneur Catherine Brown has built a growing business on something many salespeople and business owners fear doing: cold calling prospective customers. Her 14-year-old company — Initial Call — provides companies nationwide with cold callers to find sales for them, and also trains internal staffs to decipher and defray any hesitations that may be sabotaging their sales efforts.
Tulsa’s StartUp competition is getting a face-lift a decade after its inception. Tulsa Community College and the Lobeck Taylor Family Foundation have re-branded it the StartUp Series as part of an evolution to better suit the needs of today’s entrepreneurs.
Oklahoma City has been named the No. 1 city worth moving to for entrepreneurs who want to launch a startup by Entrepreneur.com.
Tulsa is in the middle of an entrepreneurial revolution. With a quick filing fee and some determination, anyone can start a new business.
Edmond was ranked as one of the best cities in the U.S. for women entrepreneurs to launch a business in a report by data-science group GoodCall.
Dirk Spiers wants to become to battery services what Amazon.com is to books and iTunes is to music. It’s a matter of establishing a new niche before anyone else even dreams up the idea, the founder of Spiers New Technologies Inc. said. Recent developments in high-performance batteries have afforded him such an opportunity in Oklahoma City.
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. There are 253 million cars and trucks on U.S. roads. The average age of those cars is 11.4 years. Most of us intend to keep our vehicles in good operating condition, and manufacturers have built in more and more monitoring systems to help. Cars andRead more
By Robert Evatt Copyright © 2015 BH Media Group Holdings, Inc. Natalie Cagle and her husband, Chad Cagle, are committed to staying fit. “I’m a triathlete raised by a triathlete, and my husband is a cyclist,” she said. “Training, for us, is a lifestyle, and travel can disrupt that.” Their pet peeve happened, yet again,Read more
By Emily Starbuck Crone Copyright © 2015 NerdWallet, Inc. When it comes to the hottest cities for small business, Tulsa probably doesn’t leap to mind. But a diverse entrepreneurial ecosystem is taking hold there, and the Oklahoma city earned a spot among the best places in the nation to start a small business in aRead more
By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2015 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Discovering and bringing a new drug to market is not for the faint of heart. But when the challenge is as big as fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and the scientist is as intrepid as Dr. Anne Pereira, amazing results can prevail. Dr. Pereira, the scientific founderRead more
For the past decade, Tulsa has witnessed a remarkable renaissance that has inspired hundreds of young professionals to build their careers — and new businesses — here. This is a wonderful time in history to be a young entrepreneur in Tulsa.
In the United States, entrepreneurial optimism is riding high. That’s the conclusion of the newly published Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2012 United States Report (GEM).
If there’s one thing an entrepreneur needs to understand about the due diligence process, it’s this: Investors invest in people, not in business plans.
