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Love’s Cup a real world experience for aspiring entrepreneurs

By sarah | Love's Cup News, News | Comments are Closed | 10 April, 2022 | 0

The Love’s Cup business plan competition offers a real world experience for aspiring entrepreneurs By Scott Meacham Spring is the high season for the Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup. January was kick-off time for this 18h season of Oklahoma’s statewide collegiate business plan competition. Student teams in both high growth and small business divisions spent the winterRead more

Entrepreneurs reflect on value of i2E’s e3 mini-accelerator

By sarah | e3, News | Comments are Closed | 22 March, 2022 | 0

We have a mission at i2E to invest in entrepreneurs and help them build successful high growth companies right here in Oklahoma. Our popular e3 mini-accelerator is a great fit for that mission as we help participating entrepreneurs determine market acceptance for their product and gain insight into the concept. We say that e3 evaluatesRead more

A jump-start to building successful high growth ventures

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 30 January, 2022 | 0

A jump-start to building successful high growth Oklahoma businesses By Scott Meacham One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that there are always so many people and organizations who want to help. The other side of that coin is the flinty-eyed question that every successful entrepreneur eventually learns to ask: “Is thisRead more

ACT Tulsa is a special initiative producing amazing results

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 5 December, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham ACT Tulsa is a special initiative that those of us in this state can be thankful for. Amazing — that is the word that Program Manager Taleya Mayberry uses to describe the launch speed of ACT Tulsa, the joint venture between i2E and ACT House that is laser-focused on cultivating underestimated founders inRead more

Thankful that entrepreneurs are the rising tide that lift all our boats

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 28 November, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham Entrepreneurs are the rising tide that lifts all our boats. It is the season to count our blessings and the people and things for which we are most thankful. In some industries, the last few weeks of the year provide time to take a breath and take a break. That is notRead more

i2E Inquiry Form

By sarah | Capital, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Investment, Investment, Oklahoma Startups, Uncategorized | Comments are Closed | 25 October, 2021 | 0

On-line Contact Form To inquire about i2E services, please complete the information below. A representative from i2E will contact you soon.Company Name*Contact InformationPrimary Contact Name* First Last Primary Contact Job Title*Primary Contact Phone Number*Primary Contact Email* Company Address* Street Address Address Line 2 City AlabamaAlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouthRead more

i2E adds experience and talent to better help Oklahoma entrepreneurs

By sarah | ACT Tulsa, iMCI, News | Comments are Closed | 1 October, 2021 | 0

We’re still the same i2E that has served Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial community for the past 22 years, providing business advice to nearly 800 startups and investing $79 million in 187 companies. We’ve celebrated 11 major exits and one “unicorn” among our portfolio companies over more than two decades of service to Oklahoma. Now, we offer evenRead more

ACT Tulsa is very intentional in building trust with founders of color

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 15 August, 2021 | 0

Back to Newsletter By Scott Meacham ACT Tulsa is very intentional about creating an on-ramp to trust with founders who are Black and Latino. ACT Tulsa, the six-month cohort-driven accelerator program aimed at cultivating underestimated founders located in Tulsa and beyond, is up and running with its inaugural cohort of nine startup companies. The 17Read more

Oklahoma’s path of innovation built upon hereditary DNA

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 27 June, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham Oklahoma’s path of innovation is built upon the hereditary DNA of past entrepreneurs. Of the nearly 3 billion base pairs in the human genome, about 99 percent of them are the same in every human being — however, it is the sequence of these DNA pairs that makes each of us whoRead more

i2E created an exponential impact on the state’s startup economy

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 6 June, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham Since its creation in the late 1990s, i2E has had an exponential impact upon the state’s startup economy. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This philosophical trope has been used from ancient times on down as a frame to debate cause and effect. In high tech entrepreneurship and venture capital,Read more

Wiley Post offers lessons for today’s entrepreneurs

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 21 February, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham It is sometimes remarkable the lessons about entrepreneurship that we can learn from reading about the life of just one person. Wiley Post is such a man. Wiley Post offers lessons. Wiley Post was a man of curiosity and adventure born into a working family of cotton farmers who bounced around TexasRead more

Tracking would-be entrepreneur ‘leavers’ who abandon their dream

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 10 January, 2021 | 4

By Scott Meacham Everything in life is cyclical. As terrible as 2020 has been for so many, the human spirit is amazing. Over the last month, as people have begun receiving vaccines that were developed in less than a year, I sense a bit of restored optimism. Who isn’t hoping (and expecting) that 2021 willRead more

Oklahoma’s startup ecosystem ensures capital continuum for emerging ventures

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 13 December, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham Entrepreneurship is hard. Most everything about building a new company is a heavy lift. Are there shout-from-the-mountain-tops moments? Most certainly. When the first prototype works as designed. When the first customer contract is signed. When a talent critical hire says yes and joins the team. And when the company receives the fundingRead more

A generational opportunity for entrepreneurs

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 22 November, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham The coronavirus pandemic has given whole segments of the economy the opportunity, and yes, even the permission, to do things differently. It is a generational opportunity for entrepreneurs who want to solve big problems for important industries. Over the last few weeks, I have focused on macro implications of the pandemic—entrepreneurial pivots,Read more

What it takes to ‘grow’ an entrepreneur

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 15 November, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham When people ask me the secret to building a scalable and successful high-growth startup, I give them a one-word answer. Talent. Entrepreneurship, just like every other endeavor in life depends on people. Is there a certain type of wiring that a high-tech entrepreneur needs? Yes. Curiosity, boundless energy, stubborn determination, and theRead more

Banner Year for Oklahoma Startups with $29.3M in Funding

By sarah | Uncategorized | 0 comment | 15 July, 2020 | 2

i2E, Inc. had a record-breaking number of investments in FY2020 with $12.89M in closed investments across its 4 venture funds and concept fund. In total, 19 Oklahoma companies received financing and attracted an additional $16.34M from private investors, for a total of $29.3M invested in Oklahoma-based companies. i2E Management Company Inc. (iMCI ), i2E’s investmentRead more

Oklahomans are innovating, especially in an economic recession

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 21 June, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham It’s official. The country is in a recession. Of course, we didn’t need the recent announcement by the National Bureau of Economic Research to tell us that. Given its unusualness, our hope is that we have nearly bottomed out from the pandemic free-fall and that economic recovery will come quickly. However, weRead more

Businesses adapt amid pandemic

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 26 April, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham “Necessity is the mother of invention.” This saying is commonly attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato. After multiple translations from ancient Greek over more than 2000 years, it is no surprise that scholars debate the exact wording that Plato used in The Republic, but regardless his observation is spot on: When theRead more

Q&A: i2E entrepreneur class goes virtual

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 22 April, 2020 | 0

By PAULA BURKES Copyright 2020, The Oklahoman Stacey Brandhorst directs business development for i2E, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs commercialize technologies, launch and grow new businesses and access capital. Question: You recently launched the 30th cohort of i2E’s e3 program (formerly Venture Assessment Program) with five new Oklahoma ventures as an online virtual class, usingRead more

At i2E, thinking about addressing the impact of the pandemic

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 29 March, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham We are in unprecedented times. Seemingly overnight, the world has changed, possibly forever. We are dealing with a pandemic disease that has no vaccine or cure. The stock market has lost a third of its value. People are being furloughed and laid off. Many hourly workers can’t pay for their groceries, rentRead more

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