JumpStart Inc., the Northeast Ohio adventure development alignment that accelerates the advance of top advance early-stage businesses, is partnering with civic organizations The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), The Institute for Entrepreneurial Thinking, and The Marathon Club to present one of the country’s aboriginal summits on boyhood entrepreneurship and investment capital. The summit, alleged “Transforming the Landscape of Business in America: A Minority Business Early-Stage Capital Summit,” will crop abode on December 3, 2009, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Cleveland.
Unique to this accident is the focus on disinterestedness investment. Two panels will affection able angel investors and adventure investors to advice entrepreneurs accept the investment action and criteria. “This acme brings calm some of the nation’s experts in clandestine disinterestedness and adventure basic advance in top growth, arising calm bazaar businesses, in an accomplishment to access acquaintance and the breeze of basic to assorted entrepreneurs,” says Carmen Ortiz-McGhee, President, The Marathon Club.
Also speaking will be Deborah Shufrin, Senior Vice President and Director of Programs, ICIC. Her affair will focus on ICIC’s affiliation with the Obama Administration to advance our nation’s Urban Strategy, with a focus on the analytical role of close city-based businesses and those led by minorities and women. “Female and boyhood entrepreneurs, as able-bodied as entrepreneurs starting businesses in our close cities communities, are analytical to acknowledging the approaching bread-and-butter advance and abundance for the U.S.,” explained Shufrin.
A highlight of the accident will be the bologna keynote speaker, Dr. William Pickard. Dr. Pickard is a 30 year consecutive administrator who currently owns and runs one of the better boyhood enterprises in the nation. He organized the Detroit ally of the MGM Grand Casino (in Detroit) as able-bodied as owning cogent pale in 5 African-American newspapers, several automotive companies amid in 5 states and Canada, and assorted McDonald’s restaurant franchises. He aswell serves as an accessory Professor of Urban Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan Business School.
The accident will aswell affection broker angle presentations, accessible to all attendees, from six of Northeast Ohio’s a lot of able boyhood entrepreneurs.
Sponsors of the civic accident cover Cleveland Clinic, The Ohio Capital Fund, Ohio Department of Development, TechColumbus, and Thompson Hine.
About JumpStart Inc.
JumpStart (www.jumpstartinc.org) is a nationally accustomed adventure development alignment that accelerates the advance of top potential, early-stage businesses and includes a appropriate focus on assorted entrepreneurs alive in the accomplished advance industries.. As allotment of its able-bodied public/private affiliation model, JumpStart recognizes the basic abutment of Ohio’s Third Frontier Project, the state’s largest-ever charge to accretion Ohio’s top tech research, innovation, commercialization, and aggregation accumulation activities, which are accretion opportunities for all Ohioans.
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