8 Cleveland Leaders Fly To Toronto To Learn How To Make Cleveland Blockland

Cleveland car mogul Bernie Moreno flew an all-star group of Cleveland leaders on his private plane to Toronto with one goal: get them to go all in on blockchain. The goal wasn’t to get the high-ranking officials in business development and higher education to say “yes” to looking into it — Moreno wanted a commitment.

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Ideas Feature: Startup Scaleup

JumpStart President Cathy Belk and PearlFlower Catering Founder and Startup Scaleup speaker Tiwanna Scott-Williams discussed the event with ideastream earlier this week.

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Startup Scaleup To Bring Together Entrepreneurs, Mentors At Gordon Square

Amplify your ambition, say the organizers of this year’s Startup Scaleup. The event will be June 26 in Gordon Square Arts District and is designed to help entrepreneurs find the right connections and resources to reach the next level, said Nick Worner, content manager for JumpStart, which organizes Startup Scaleup. Startup Scaleup will present nearly 40

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TOA Founder Surfaces With Promising Fintech Venture

Yuval Brisker, the entrepreneur who founded, grew and eventually sold TOA Technologies to Oracle Corp. in what’s believed to be one of the largest venture-backed exits an Ohio company has ever drawn, has just launched a fintech startup he bills as a third-generation payment system. Brisker and cofounder Pedro Silva officially launched Mezu, whose name

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Northeast Ohio’s Tech Startups Need Stronger Backing

A proper plan for economic viability today simply can’t exclude the role played by technology-driven startups and a surrounding system that creates and supports them. So as business leaders in Northeast Ohio lament the region’s sluggish growth, what can be done to foster a stronger startup culture here may need to lead that discussion —

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JumpStart Sets June 26 As Date For Next Startup Scaleup Event

JumpStart Inc.’s fourth annual Startup Scaleup — an event aimed at celebrating the growth of Northeast Ohio’s entrepreneurial sector and providing information and resources to help it expand further — will take place Tuesday, June 26, in Cleveland’s Gordon Square Arts District. The day-long event, presented by KeyBank, will feature 39 workshops, panels and networking

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JumpStart’s Startup Scaleup Event Returns To Cleveland’s Gordon Square Arts District On June 26

On June 26, JumpStart will be teaming with some of its closest partners and collaborators for Startup Scaleup—an event celebrating the growth of Northeast Ohio’s entrepreneurial ecosystem and showcasing the full array of local resources available to help entrepreneurs succeed. Learn more about Startup Scaleup at www.startupscaleup.org. Presented by KeyBank and powered by JumpStart, Startup

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Cash App Mezu, Of Cleveland, Launching Anonymous Payment Option

One-fourth to one-third of adults now use their mobile phones to make peer-to-peer payments, such as through Venmo or PayPal. But there’s one big drawback: To pay someone using these cash apps, you must exchange some sort of personal information so the payment can be sent. But a new cash app called Mezu, created by

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7SIGNAL Announces New Intelligent Wi-Fi Roaming Analytics For Unique Visibility Into Wi-Fi Experiences

Today at CiscoLive, 7SIGNAL, The Wi-Fi Performance Company, is pleased to showcase Mobile Eye 2.0 for managing Wi-Fi experiences from laptops, tablets and other mobile devices in hospitals, manufacturing facilities, and large enterprises. The latest version of the software-only Mobile Eye solution introduces the Sticky Factor™, a proprietary roaming analytic developed by 7SIGNAL for quickly

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Akron-Based Revenue Conduit By Unific Helps E-Commerce Retailers Grow

Revenue Conduit by Unific founders Dan Kurt and Parag Jagdale first met while attending The Ohio State University in the early 2000s. A few years later, Kurt and his wife were running an online store. And despite making the jump to a more comprehensive customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platform, Kurt needed help

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