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Monday, June 11, 2012
Posted By Robert Hatta

As much as this blog creates awareness of the tech startup openings in Northeast Ohio (currently there are more than 60 jobs), the main objective is to actually fill those jobs. In that spirit, this week’s edition features a few of the fresh faces new to JumpStart portfolio and client companies.

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What Next?

Friday, May 11, 2012
Posted By Robert Hatta

May is a time of warming temperatures, cherry blossoms and Memorial Day cookouts. It's also a time when college graduates are forced into the real world, collectively letting out a worried sigh that's accompanied by the question, "What next?"

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Madness

Friday, March 09, 2012
Posted By Robert Hatta

While NFL football is my favorite sport to watch, the Men’s NCAA Basketball Tournament is my favorite sports event. For three weeks every March, the top 65 or so hoops teams from around the country do battle in a win-or-go-home contest that never fails to entertain.

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A New Year's Resolution We Can Keep: Create Jobs

Monday, January 09, 2012
Posted By Robert Hatta

The month of January is named after Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways. It is an opportunity to set a new direction for yourself, your company or your waistline. Fortunately, creating new jobs and growing businesses is not the sort of resolution that loses steam after a few weeks (like so many diets and P90-X promises). This talent report has a few resolutions coming up in the near future. But for now, I’ll stick to the new jobs, and there are plenty, from tech startups around Northeast Ohio.

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Peyton Manning would make a Great Startup CEO

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Posted By Robert Hatta

If you’ve ever watched Peyton Manning play, you’ve seen it. From the end of the previous play to the next, Peyton is furiously taking in and processing new information, spotting patterns, making quick decisions and executing with urgency. To me, Peyton Manning is the quintessential example Adaptive Excellence at work.

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The New American Dream: A Job

Tuesday, August 02, 2011
Posted By Robert Hatta

When people talk about the American Dream, it is usually discussed in decidedly materialistic terms – owning a home, creating a better standard of living for our children, or enjoying the annual vacation some place warm. But is spending the metric by which we measure our happiness as a nation? Today, Americans care most about something much more basic: having a good job.

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Startups are Not for Everyone. . .and that’s OK

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Posted By Robert Hatta

I talk to job seekers all the time about what they can expect if they join a high-growth startup. It’s decidedly not for everyone. There was a time when I wasn’t sure it was for me.

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Starting Your Own Business? Make Sure You Are Ready by Doing These 5 Things

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Posted By Tiffan Clark

So, you want to start your own business. You have visions of being your own boss, setting your own hours, becoming crazy successful, and retiring at an early age. You daydream about opening the doors to your business and watching the people, and the money, pour in. But are you really ready to start a new business?

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Can Non-Profit Investors Help Grow The Next Silicon Valley?

Thursday, April 21, 2011
Posted By John Dearborn

A recent New York Times article dove into the idea of organically creating the next Silicon Valley. Its author, Steven Davidoff, reviewed the different ingredients public and private sectors are adding to their entrepreneurial ecosystems and touched on a growing consensus that government does, and should, have a role in entrepreneurship.

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There Are No Shortcuts in Good Recruiting

Thursday, April 14, 2011
Posted By Robert Hatta

As the job markets pick up and companies scramble and fight for the best talent (especially software developers and capable sales talent), companies are always tempted to cut corners. Good recruiting takes time, process and salesmanship. For startup and growth companies, everything needs to be done quickly, and the best entrepreneurs smartly separate what must be done well now, and what can be improved later. However, every time I’ve made a bad hire (and I’ve made my share), it was because I chose to cut corners. Among the many mistakes I’ve made…

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Interns: A Startup's New Best Friend

Friday, March 25, 2011
Posted By John Dearborn

Tony Giordano is the typical biotech entrepreneur. As CEO of TheraVasc, he juggles fundraising with traveling the road to FDA approval, which can often times be long and costly, and doing it all with a lean workforce. But he's found an incredibly effective model to balance capital needs with the restructuring of a workforce: Interns.

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How Obama’s Budget Could Impact Entrepreneurs, Inventors, Manufacturers, and Researchers

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Posted By Leah Yomtovian

On February 14th, President Obama sent Congress his 2012 federal budget proposal for consideration. With the 2011 federal deficit projected to be at least $1.5 trillion and the national unemployment rate lingering around nine percent, the White House’s top priorities are budget cuts and job creation. Although not likely to pass exactly as outlined

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Cause for Celebration and Concern

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Posted By Robert Hatta

We’re back! Stock markets are trending in a positive direction as companies realize productivity gains and begin to invest in future growth. Large Northeast Ohio employers like Cedar Fair, FirstEnergy, and Smucker’s all have announced impressive numbers for their most recent reporting periods. Further, it appears that the jobs are starting to come back...

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Obama Spreads Innovation Agenda To Middle America

Friday, March 04, 2011
Posted By John Dearborn

...imagine the White House calling and saying that they were so excited by what they were observing in terms of the state of change in the region that they wanted to come look and learn for themselves. Well that's exactly what happened here.

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Boom In Black-Owned Firms Having Limited Effect On Black Unemployment

Friday, February 18, 2011
Posted By Darrin Redus

African-American entrepreneurship is on the rise at rates greater than the general population, according to data from the Census Bureau. The newly-released figures, reflecting the period between 2002 and 2007, show that the number of businesses owned by African Americans rose nearly 61 percent in those five years. By comparison

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