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There’s no single path to entrepreneurial success

By sarah | News | Comments are Closed | 11 April, 2021 | 0

By Scott Meacham There is no single path to entrepreneurial success. U.S. Patent No. 4,371,752 is just one of the more than thirty-three patents issued to Tulsa born and raised inventor and entrepreneur Gordon Matthews (1936 – 2002). But it is arguably the most of impactful of his portfolio of innovation, as No. 4,371,752 isRead more

Charles Machine Works a case study in entrepreneurship

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

By Scott Meacham Charles Machine Works is a case study in entrepreneurship and innovation. To succeed in entrepreneurship, solve a problem that lots of businesses have. You can be even more successful, if the business you are solving that big problem for is in an industry that is about to take off. That’s the OklahomaRead more

Love’s Cup impact on Oklahoma entrepreneur community deep — and wide

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 20 December, 2020 | 2

By Scott Meacham When the world is running along in normal ways at normal speeds, we tend not to think as much about connections between disconnected things. For me lately, in the third quarter of this pandemic, as we approach the holidays and the end of the year, I have been reflecting more and moreRead more

At Ten-Nine Technologies, lessons learned from both science, entrepreneurship

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 14 June, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham If you asked me to name the profession most similar to entrepreneurship, I would say science. Both are based on problem-solving, experimentation, data, and the confidence to recognize that failure is a critical aspect of the path to success. Paige Johnson, founder and CEO of Tulsa-based Ten-Nine Technologies, is a noted researchRead more

Entrepreneurs, Cowboys and the ability to execute a plan

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 7 June, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham I often get the question “What is a typical day like working with entrepreneurs ?” My answer is short: There is no such thing as a typical day, and that is perfectly okay. I like it that way. The variability and unexpected nature of entrepreneurship is what makes working with startups andRead more

Entrepreneurship fuels the state’s economy

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 29 August, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This summer, I’ve been writing about lessons learned since coming to i2E nearly six years ago — specifically lessons about technology entrepreneurship in our state. It seems fitting as we head toward Labor Day, that I wind up this summer series with a recap of my heartfeltRead more

Support for entrepreneurs is a moon shot effort

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 10 July, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was President John F. Kennedy’s idea. In 1961, the president challenged NASA and the nation to land an astronaut on the moon before the decade was over. Russia had taken the lead inRead more

Starting a company is hard but rewarding work

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 2 July, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Oklahoma’s expanding innovation economy is having a significant and lasting effect on our state. Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs build companies and create jobs through the realization of their dreams, inventions and hard work. I wanted to contribute, and I wanted to learn — about innovation, about creating sources ofRead more

Oklahoma at the heart of new wave of entrepreneurship

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 28 November, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017 The Oklahoma Publishing Co. There have been multiple articles recently in the national press about how the middle of country is gaining attention as a source of promising technology deals. Big-name investors, including Steve Case, billionaire cofounder of America Online, are in the hunt. Case’s investment firm, Revolution, hasRead more

Seeking new paths to grow Oklahoma’s companies, economy

By zach | News | Comments are Closed | 1 November, 2016 | 0

This state is always going to have to reconcile times of boom and bust until we reduce our collective dependence on oil and gas. We need investment from the state, but we also need creative participation from everybody else. There are Oklahoma corporations, initiatives, and people who get that and are doing something. One such business is Kimray, Inc., a world-class manufacturer of control equipment used extensively in oil and gas production around the globe.

Seeking new paths to grow Oklahoma’s companies, economy

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 25 October, 2016 | 0

This state is always going to have to reconcile times of boom and bust until we reduce our collective dependence on oil and gas. We need investment from the state, but we also need creative participation from everybody else. There are Oklahoma corporations, initiatives, and people who get that and are doing something. One such business is Kimray, Inc., a world-class manufacturer of control equipment used extensively in oil and gas production around the globe.

BrewFest event highlights Oklahoma entrepreneurship

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 19 October, 2016 | 0

BrewFest attracts more than 500 people. It’s a unique opportunity for the entrepreneurial community in Oklahoma to come together for a few hours to network and enjoy tasting products from yet another emerging and nontraditional segment of Oklahoma’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Events like BrewFest draw together people from across Oklahoma who are interested in the innovation economy here. In this casual environment, they learn things they didn’t know about making wine, brewing beer and about what’s happening in innovation across Oklahoma.

State positioned to capture capital as investments grow

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 4 October, 2016 | 0

As the cost of living continues to rise on either coast, but particularly in places like California and New York City, it is becoming more and more attractive for entrepreneurs to start companies somewhere else. They need talent and capital to do that of course, but as those critical components are more in evidence, we’re seeing startup activity branching out geographically.

Annual state study measures progress of innovation economy

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 7 September, 2016 | 0

For venture and economic development organizations like i2E, a key aspect of our responsibility is acceleration. It’s figuring how to find the best athletes, amp up their training, speed up the track, improve the car. We also measure and communicate the metrics of innovation progress over time by distributing an economic impact survey to our entire population of client companies every year. In March, we submitted the 2016 economic impact survey to 153 active clients.

Oklahoma ranks No. 4 in Kauffman Index of Startup Activity

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 26 August, 2016 | 0

The Kauffman Index of Startup Activity focuses on new business creation activity and people engaging in business startup activity. In 2016, Oklahoma ranked No. 4 for startup activity for smaller states, up from No. 8 in 2015.

Even great entrepreneurs need help, and the willingness to keep at it

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 5 August, 2016 | 0

The Achilles heel of entrepreneurship is thinking you know all the answers. Everyone agrees that it takes phenomenal confidence and courage to start any business from scratch. But when confidence and courage become certitude and cockiness, it leads to disaster. As most of us in the investment industry can tell you, we see too many entrepreneurs who believe that they have figured everything out.

Avoid choosing the wrong path to market

By admin | News | Comments are Closed | 26 July, 2016 | 0

There are many entrepreneurs who are developing a product that would have the best chance at success if someone else took that product to market. Instead, we see entrepreneurs — and this gets back to “loving the baby” — who are determined to try and break into a market that’s already dominated by powerful players such as Microsoft, Cisco or P&G.

Three OSU teams make Governor’s Cup finals

By zach | Love's Cup News | 0 comment | 4 April, 2016 | 0

Three OSU teams make Governor’s Cup finals By Ariel West © 2016 – Spears School of Business @ Oklahoma State University The School of Entrepreneurship at Oklahoma State University has three teams in the High Growth division finals of Innovation to Enterprise’s statewide Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Competition. The OSU finalists are: Haley KurtzRead more

Entrepreneurial passion is highly contagious, and it benefits Oklahoma

By admin | News | 0 comment | 22 March, 2016 | 0

Since we introduced the Donald W. Reynold’s Governor’s Cup collegiate business plan competition 12 years ago, more than 1,700 college students have taken the Gov Cup challenge. This year, 55 teams entered business plans. This competition involves college students across the state, with divisions for two-year and regional colleges, for research universities, and for graduate students.

Innovation & Entrpreneurs: Serial entrepreneurs launch own diagnostics-focused company in state

By admin | News | 0 comment | 23 February, 2016 | 0

I get really excited when I see an Oklahoma startup improving the lives of people who have incurable debilitating disease. That’s the story of Progentec Diagnostics, a startup that is focused on developing breakthrough diagnostics. The firm’s initial focus is on developing a diagnostic test to identify patients at increased risk for flare in lupus, an incurable autoimmune disease that afflicts 1.5 million patients in the U.S.

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