Defrag Ohio Youngstown
Today we spoke about Defrag with the Warren Youngstown Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Youngstown State University Business School leadership, YSU's Center for Urban and Regional Studies and the Youngstown Business Incubator to talk about Y'Town's opportunity to participate as a leader in the Defrag Ohio network in education, private business leadership, building quality, connected places, designing entrepreneurship curriculum for the 21st Century and the digital media industry.
Defrag's approach to building open networks of collaboration, of identifying and connecting Y'Town resources in digital media made sense to these practically minded leaders who talked about the Y'Town assets ready to be connected and lit up!
After our meeting, we visited the Youngstown Incubator. Jim Cossler, Chief Evangelist, spent time talking with us about the past, the present and the future of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Incubator and where Y'Town fits in the scheme of things between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. This successful incubator model relies on open communications between companies, simple rules of behavior, including "no poaching", shared and free services, and awesome coaching. Great free or cheap space. Great access. Good food across the street. Good parking. What more could any entrepreneur want? (Could that REALLY exist in Cleveland?...)
The result: innovation, learning and the acceleration of activity. Simple results, but really hard to get.
What is great about Y'Town is everything is within walking distance. A perfect place for building, connecting and innovating. We had a great day. Thank you Youngstown!
Defrag's approach to building open networks of collaboration, of identifying and connecting Y'Town resources in digital media made sense to these practically minded leaders who talked about the Y'Town assets ready to be connected and lit up!
After our meeting, we visited the Youngstown Incubator. Jim Cossler, Chief Evangelist, spent time talking with us about the past, the present and the future of innovation and entrepreneurship at the Incubator and where Y'Town fits in the scheme of things between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. This successful incubator model relies on open communications between companies, simple rules of behavior, including "no poaching", shared and free services, and awesome coaching. Great free or cheap space. Great access. Good food across the street. Good parking. What more could any entrepreneur want? (Could that REALLY exist in Cleveland?...)
The result: innovation, learning and the acceleration of activity. Simple results, but really hard to get.
What is great about Y'Town is everything is within walking distance. A perfect place for building, connecting and innovating. We had a great day. Thank you Youngstown!
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