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The Women’s Economic Opportunity Center (WEOC) hosted by the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) announced today the Launch Women Pitch Competition, to support women entrepreneurs throughout the WEOC service area (see below). Women who have recently started or...
Leaders of emerging businesses are invited to an exclusive lunch to learn about overcoming the six unique challenges of emerging businesses on August 24 or September 21, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (The NIIC). Todd Schrock, CEO...
How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #3 in the series. You never imagined. The year your business’s revenues finally broke through. In a big way. Years of hard work and sacrifice building to this moment of—a drained...
How to Overcome the Unique Challenges of Emerging Businesses (20-100 Employees) Article #2 in the series. “Growth does not always lead a business to build on success. All too often it converts a highly successful business into a mediocre large business,” Richard...
Local CEO Advantage™ Certified Advisor Todd Schrock is partnering with Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (The NIIC) to form CEO Rhythms Forum. This is essentially a peer group for CEOs, presidents and owners of emerging businesses. The forum is facilitated by The...
Nicole Kurut’s article in LIVING FORT WAYNE features The NIIC Student Venture Lab Client 3B Apps. Here’s an excerpt and a link to read the full story. “If you are looking for motivation this week, look no further than Mitchell Skees and his two...
The NIIC loves to brag on its clients! Lisa Esquivel Long of The News Sentinel featured LiveOn Goods, LLC in this article. Cutline (left to right) Laura Rao, Mary Briscoe, Helen Huser Nill, Gretchen Dahm, Maria Krach...
“CapeAble Sensory Products won the InnovateHER Competition hosted by Fort Wayne SCORE Chapter and held at The NIIC Cole Auditorium on April 26, 2017. The purpose of the competition is to amplify products or services that fill a need in the marketplace and have...
Business People (magazine), The Scene, May edition featured The NIIC’s annual Ideas@Work Signature Event. Cutline – Ideas@Work Signature Event Keynote Speaker Donald F. Kuratko (Dr. K.), Myths & Realities of the Entrepreneurial Mindset: An Indiana...
CapeAble Sensory Products won the InnovateHER Competition recently hosted by Fort Wayne SCORE Chapter and held at The NIIC. The purpose of the competition as defined by the U.S. Small Business Administration (U.S. SBA) is to amplify products or services that fill a...
Do you know myths vs. realities of entrepreneurship? More than 500 entrepreneurs, business leaders and students recently convened at The NIIC Ideas@Work Event at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation to be educated and inspired on the topic. Keynote...
Do you know myths vs. realities of entrepreneurship? More than 500 entrepreneurs, business leaders and students recently convened at The NIIC Ideas@Work Event at the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation to be educated and inspired on the topic. Keynote...
From startups to established companies, new to mature brands, video has become the preferred method of telling the story for companies and organizations. “Our brains process visual information 60,000 times faster than words, and one minute of video is considered...
BioPoly, LLC’s entrepreneurial journey began humbly in 2004 with an idea to develop orthopaedic implants from a new material that a professor at Colorado State University invented. The material which is called BioPoly®, the only of its kind in the world, is a...
FORT WAYNE, IN – BioPoly LLC has announced that the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (OA) has published 2 year clinical results of patient outcomes for the BioPoly® RS Partial Resurfacing Knee Implant. The results indicate statistically significant (p < 0.025)...
April 18, 2017, Fort Wayne, Ind. – Six Northeast Indiana entrepreneurs are competing in InnovateHER 2017: Innovating for Women Business Challenge Competition on April 26, 2017, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at The NIIC Cole Auditorium in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The public is invited...
Featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Donald F. Kuratko (Dr. K), Indiana University Kelley School of Business March 14, 2017, Fort Wayne, Ind. – When it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, can you separate fact from fiction? The public is invited to come hear the...
The owners of CapeAble Sensory Products, a northeast Indiana-based women-owned business, has been nominated for the 2017 Small Business Association Person(s) of the Year Award by the Women’s Economic Opportunity Center (WEOC) at the Northeast Indiana Innovation...
Gamified user interfaces, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), are the next wave of digital engagement leading to better user experiences and technology adoption. The NIIC’s new Gaming and User Experience Lab was established to teach developers and...
Women and under-served entrepreneurs are invited to meet the new Women’s Economic Opportunity Center (WEOC) Director, learn about upcoming WEOC programs, and connect with entrepreneurs at the Faces of an Entrepreneur Event on February 27, 2017, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m....