Angel investing can be ideal for many startups looking for funding and a champion. Join John Huston, a founding member of Ohio TechAngel Funds (OTAF), and Parker MacDonell, Managing Director of Ohio TechAngel Funds for a discussion about one of the largest angel groups in the U.S. OTAF invests in highly promising, Ohio-based companies in IT, advanced materials, and life sciences. More than 300 high net worth, accredited investors have joined one or more of
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue July 21. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In this TIGER Talk, you'll hear from three speakers pursuing different, yet connected career paths. During this talk we will learn about the approach Michael Redd has taken to venture investing and how he's been making a difference in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.  We'll learn how Danny Ortiz has channeled his drive and passion is
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu July 23. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In this TIGER Talk, our presenter Ryan Frederick will touch on three sections of his new book, The Founder’s Manual: A Guidebook for Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur. These are: Founder FLOW, Product FLOW, and Startup FLOW.  Ryan will cover some counter-intuitive principles that can help every entrepreneur and increase their odds of success. Ryan Frederick is
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue July 28. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In this TIGER Talk, our presenter Graham Allison will take the mystery out of Opportunity Zones and show you how to unlock the benefits as you learn about in this once-in-a-generation tax incentive. Graham will cover the basics and then drill down to help you determine how you can use this instrument to create wealth and
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu July 30. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. Whether we use Excel, Google Sheets, PowerPoint, Google Data Studio, Tableau, R, some other platform, or (most likely) some combination of platforms, at the end of the day, in business, a core mechanism we use for communicating with our stakeholders is data visualization. The difference between an excellent visualization and a mediocre one can easily be
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu Aug 13. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. Every business should aspire to tie its work back to revenue influenced by marketing activities. This can be easier to do for some activities vs. others.  In this session, you will learn how to associate most of your marketing efforts with revenue. For businesses with limited resources, directly measuring the success of marketing campaigns is critical.
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue Aug 25. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In 2020, many of our old ways of doing business suddenly no longer work. As business leaders, our options are to adapt and grow -or- to just accept business losses as inevitable and give in to the challenges created by our COVID-19 world. Even when we're faced with life-changing health and safety restrictions that affect both
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu Aug 27. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In 2019, $9.5 Billion in economic impact was generated in the state of Georgia by the film and television industry.  And, that created Billions more downstream in positive cash-flow for the state economy overall. So, why can't Ohio can build its own film industry and turn Columbus into the Hollywood of the Midwest?  Building Ohio's creative
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue Sep 1. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. In 2020, we're bombarded by more and more new information more and more rapidly.  And new ideas come at us at a rate far exceeding our ability to mentally digest and make use of them. Working on your "readership development" can help you filter out the noise to focus on what's most important, gain perspective and
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu Sep 10. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. Over the years, the term "Inside Sales" has been used to mean many different things: telemarketing, order taking, lead generation, appointment setting, customer/sales support, strategic sales, inbound closers, etc.  But in many of today's fastest growing companies, Inside Sales is proving to be a powerful strategic engine to drive growth - one that's relied upon by
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu Sep 17. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. Innovation. User Experience. UX Research. Design Research. Experience Strategy. Design Thinking. These are just some of the terms used in business today all with varying definitions, but with one common theme -- having empathy for and understanding your customer. And improving your "empathy quotient" might just be the key to attracting and retaining more customers, in
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue Sep 22. At about 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access the LIVESTREAM. Business leaders often leap to the conclusion that they MUST have an app custom-built for their business to meet its "highly specialized" needs and goals.  While this is sometimes correct, more often it's just an impulse driven by a desire to “keep up” or the feeling that “everyone else is doing it." So how
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Please register by 9 pm, Thu Sep 24. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM. Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) are in the news frequently. In this TIGER Talk, Chris Slee will examine what they could mean for your business based on examples from other local organizations on how they chose to apply them, what the project was like, and what they got out of it. ML is a
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Please register by 9 pm, Tue Sep 29. By 10 pm, we’ll send you a link to access LIVESTREAM.  In this TIGER Talk, presenter Eric Rucinski will be discussing cash flow and value creation in the context of critical business decisions, including those involving: • Entire companies and divisions • New product lines and markets • Initiatives and investments • Mergers and acquisitions (buy / sell decisions) Eric will describe the inherent deficiencies in relying solely on
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