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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

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

A race against time for building a company

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 23 February, 2020 | 0

By Scott Meacham It is hard to start a business — very, very hard. This is true on Main Street, for information technology businesses and in biotech. For all entrepreneurs, building a company is a race against time, a race in which every milestone of success increases the pressure on the business plan. The biggestRead more

Prescott: A homegrown biotech success story

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 November, 2019 | 0

By Stephen Prescott, M.D. When Novartis announced earlier this month that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the company’s new drug to treat sickle cell anemia, the press release didn’t mention Oklahoma. But it should have. That drug, known as Adakveo, is as Oklahoman as redbuds and scissor-tailed flycatchers. Indeed, but for workRead more

Well-timed pivots can make a project successful

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 18 July, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I set a goal for this summer’s series of columns to reflect on and write about my lessons-learned during my past six years of immersion in entrepreneurship. Our focus at i2E is on high-growth technology or life sciences businesses, but startups of every stripe are vital toRead more

Entrepreneurs, startups, and organizations that support them deserve our thanks

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 21 November, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Every year around the middle of October, I start writing in my head at least one holiday-focused column before the end of the year. I try to jot down a few ideas, feeling good that I have started well in advance, and then the whirlwind ofRead more

i2E Inc.’s nearly 20 years of supporting Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 24 October, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. It’s been almost 20 years since i2E first began providing business expertise and funding to Oklahoma’s emerging small businesses. In that time, we’ve supported more than 675 companies. Portfolio companies have attracted $590 million in private investment from banks, venture capital funds, angels and otherRead more

Oklahoma is fertile ground for high-growth entrepreneurs

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 16 May, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Last week, speaking at the Oklahoma Venture Forum’s chairman’s luncheon, I caught looks of interest, and perhaps a little surprise, when I told the audience that it is my firm belief that Oklahoma has entered the era of the high-growth entrepreneur. We have built theRead more

State-supported funds draw private investment to fledgling Oklahoma firms

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 9 May, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. The state stepped up almost two decades ago to help Oklahoma-based startup companies bridge the investment gap and leverage other private, federal, and institutional sources of capital. i2E Inc., in partnership with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, has been theRead more

Oklahoma’s model for developing venture capital is working

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 21 March, 2017 | 0

Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Selexys was one of the top five largest mergers and acquisitions of U.S.-based companies in the fourth quarter of 2016. That deal and the sale of WeGoLook are proof positive that Oklahoma’s strategy of public/private venture capital funds works. When the recent fourth-quarter and full-year MoneyTreeRead more

Innovation can boost Oklahoma economy from within

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 January, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Company If you look at economic development from the state perspective, there are three areas of concentration. One, Oklahoma can be in an arms race against other states for the next new manufacturing plant or the next corporation looking to move. Two, the state can createRead more

Humble beginnings at Moore gas station launched career of Selexys CEO Scott Rollins

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 11 January, 2017 | 0

Scott Rollins, CEO of Selexys Pharmaceuticals/Oklahoman photo provided by OCAST By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Selexys Pharmaceuticals president and CEO Scott Rollins reflected on the lessons learned in the wake of the richest transaction in the history of Oklahoma biosciences — the recent $665 million sale of Selexys to industryRead more

Support of tech startups could ease state’s dependence on energy

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 4 January, 2017 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. I’ve been writing (and talking) a lot about the exits of WeGoLook and Selexys over the few weeks. In fact, when I sat down to work on this column, my wife even asked me if I was ever going to come up with something new.Read more

Business of Health: Major deals, Innovation District top local health stories for 2016

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 2 January, 2017 | 0

By Stephen Prescott, M.D. Copyright © 2017, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Happy New Year! In the world of health and business, 2016 brought its share of headlines. But many of those stories read like the ghosts of Christmases past. There was outrage over a massive price hike for an old drug (EpiPen). Health insurance costsRead more

Oklahoma startups successful in 2016

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 28 December, 2016 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. As 2016 draws to a close, entrepreneurs and early stage investors in Oklahoma are ending the year with big smiles. In the past few weeks, the exits of Selexys and WeGoLook have been strong validations that in this state we do have the talent, capitalRead more

Executive Q&A with OMRF scientist Dr. Rodger P. McEver

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 26 December, 2016 | 0

By Paula Burkes Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. Most scientists spend a lifetime hoping their research contributes to a body of work that collectively will lead to a new drug that will treat or cure a disease. For Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation’s Rodger “Rod” McEver, that body of knowledge was developed in hisRead more

WeGoLook is disrupting its way to success

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 20 December, 2016 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Now that the acquisition announcements of Selexys by Novartis and of WeGoLook by Crawford & Co. have been made, I’m looking forward to what happens next. In the case of Selexys, like any biotech deal, seeing the “next” will take some time. But with WeGoLook,Read more

Recent OCAST successes highlight the payoff from long-term investment

By sarah | Investment, News | 0 comment | 18 December, 2016 | 0

By The Oklahoman Editorial Board Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Co. OKLAHOMA legislators have another tough session ahead, one in which they are expected to have perhaps $600 million less to appropriate than they did in 2016 — when there was $1.3 billion less than the year before. It will be challenging work, toRead more

Oklahoma startups are cashing in

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 13 December, 2016 | 1

Oklahoma startups are cashing in By Jack Money Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company Chalk up WeGoLook, LLC’s deal with Crawford & Co. as another success story for i2E and the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology. On Dec. 6, Crawford & Co. announced it would acquire an 85 percent membershipRead more

Two major acquisitions of local firms good news in several ways

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 13 December, 2016 | 0

Two major acquisitions of local firms good news in several ways By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2016, The Oklahoma Publishing Company I had an amazing Friday a couple of weeks ago. Literally, in one day, I found out that two of i2E’s portfolio companies were being acquired by major corporations — the two biggest exitsRead more

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