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Excerpt “A Fort Wayne nonprofit entrepreneur incubator is receiving a three-year $750,000 grant to create another option for individuals and businesses in the health field. The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, 3201 Stellhorn Road, will use the money to...
Excerpt “FORT WAYNE –A health-based Internet of Things lab is being planned for northeast Indiana. The federal Economic Development Administration has awarded a three-year, $750,000 grant to the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center to launch...
$750,000 U.S. Economic Development Administration Grant and Northeast Indiana Founding Partners Backing Lab/Network December 18, 2018, Fort Wayne, Ind.— Individuals and companies interested in developing products and businesses around the Health Internet of Things...
Excerpt “The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center supports and guides women on their business ventures. Don’t go it alone. That’s the advice Leslee Hill, director of the Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center, or WEOC, gives to women who are looking to...
Excerpt “Do you have a nickname? Only as a child, it was Boger Describe yourself in three words. Resilient, restless and intellectually curious In what city did you grow up? Not a city, but the village of Turners Falls (Massachusetts) What book has had the...
Excerpt “There is a recent surge of interest in self-care and general well-being. We need to take better care of ourselves. Using a standing desk is one way to invest in self-care while you work. A few years ago my naturopath suggested I try a standing desk....
Excerpt “WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross today announced that 40 organizations — including nonprofits, institutions of higher education, and entrepreneurship-focused organizations — from 28 states and two territories will receive $21 million...
Women tech business builders are experiencing greater success in launching and growing their businesses through the Launch Women Business Builder Program in Northeast Indiana. Simply ask Melissa Hall, Sample Snap Founder. When the first cohort of the program completed...
FORT WAYNE, IN – BioPoly has just announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an IDE clinical study for its BioPoly® RS Partial Resurfacing Knee System. The BioPoly knee is used to treat patients with painful cartilage lesions by filling...
Excerpt “The annual visit by the head of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center to the Allen County commissioners led to a discussion Friday morning of the challenges in encouraging entrepreneurs in today’s economy. Karl R. LaPan, the center’s...
Individuals who start their own businesses know well they have to serve in many roles to make it happen. Recognizing this as an obstacle for business builders, Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center (WEOC) and Own Your Success (OYS) are teaming to host a workshop...
Santiago Jaramillo, CEO and Co-Founder, Emplify Santiago Jaramillo, CEO and Co-founder of Emplify, will serve as keynote speaker for The NIIC’s Ideas@Work event on April 16, 2019, at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. Attendees will be engaged and...
Excerpt “The rate of women-owned businesses has grown nearly four times that of male-owned businesses the past 20 years, according to “Women-Owned Businesses: A Tale of Two Types of Entrepreneurs,” Forbes. Whether located in urban areas or in the...
Excerpt The Foellinger Foundation announced more than $120,000 in grant funding Thursday for four local nonprofits. The money comes from the foundation’s Breakthrough Fund, a $500,000 initiative “to support people-focused ideas that create a significant...
Excerpt FORT WAYNE –Four organizations have been awarded grants from the Foellinger Foundation Breakthrough Fund. The half-million dollar grant opportunity was made available earlier this year as part of the Fort Wayne-based foundation’s 60th anniversary....
Interactions among business owners, clients, and staff can be a deal breaker—and sometimes even a business breaker. The Northeast Indiana entrepreneurial community is invited to attend the final workshop in a four-part series focused on how to build stronger overall...
Seeing is believing. And tasting is believing. That is why small business owners looking for a place to hold a professional meeting, workshop or conference (e.g., strategic planning, sales workshops, customer or employee educational training sessions, off-site...
Excerpt FORT WAYNE – A program designed to rapidly boost women-owned digital business toward viability is open for registration. The Women’s Entrepreneurial Opportunity Center in Fort Wayne says its Launch Women Business Builder Program participants will...
Congratulations to WEOC Launch Women Business Builders who have advanced to Phase 2 of the Program. Jen Petro, Virtual Business Coach; Tricia Cavender, Rhapsody Art Gallery & Studio; Melissa Hall, Sample Snap; Alice Payne and Morgan Refakis; Hali Ruisard, Rhapsody...
EXCERPT The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center became the nation’s only technology park last month with a program boasting the latest version of the flagship 9001 quality management systems standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization. The...