Cheri Hottinger and I attended the Ohio Chamber's Annual Meeting this week. The Chamber gave a legislative briefing. You may read the entire briefing, by clicking here. They have a great staff and work very hard at advocating in these areas: taxation, education & workforce, workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, environment, energy, health care, small business and grassroots. They are also working with the Ohio Department of Development to institute an internship program that will help develop our state’s next generation of entrepreneurs while helping to ensure that some of Ohio’s brightest and most promising students remain in the state after graduation.The panelist session brought together a handful of intriguing entrepreneurs. The moderator, John Huston is the Principal of USPrivate Companies, LLC who launched the Ohio TechAngel Fund, did a great job of leading the discussions. Of interest: Baju Shah, President and CEO of BioEnterprise, a business acceleration initative that supports the growth of bioscience companies. Since 200, it has helped more than 80 Cleveland companies that have collectively attracted more than $850 million in new funding. In addition, Bob Kington, the CEO of Toobla (available this June) explained how his new company has created a platform for users to discover, save and share any and all pieces on the Web, save it on Toobla and then share it with Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. (A site I hope to be able to use soon) And finally, Pamela Springer, President of ECNext has been recognized as an industry pacesetter within the online media space having created Manta.com, the ninth largest business information site on the web. Manta provides information on small businesses and lists many Central Ohio businesses. If you own a small business, it would be smart to get yourself listed on this site.
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