Entrepreneur's Corner

Ohio Entrepreneur is a partnership of companies, universities and economic development organizations dedicated to providing access to the information and services entrepreneurs need to start or expand their businesses in Northeast Ohio. We encourage entrepreneurs to call or visit the Web sites of these organizations.

Baldwin-Wallace College Entrepreneurship Center (440) 826-2083 Phil Bessler, Business Clinic (440) 826-5918 Dr. Peter Rea, Center for Innovation and Growth www.bw.edu City of Beachwood (216) 591-2192 Howard Thompson howard.thompson@beachwoodohio.com www.beachwoodohio.com Case Western Reserve University Research ShowCASE (216) 368-1072 Cynthia Barker cynthia.barker@case.edu http://ora.ra.cwru.edu/showcase Corporate College (216) 987-5859 Jim Potantus james.potantus@tri-c.edu www.tri-c.edu MAGNET 216-432-5310 Dave Crain dave.crain@magnetwork.org www.magnetwork.org

Entrepreneurship Innovation Institute (800) 995-5222 ext. 4300 Jim Shanahan jshanaha@lorainccc.edu GLIDE — Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise (440) 366-4310 innovate@glideit.org www.glideit.org Kent State University (330) 672-2692 Gregory B. Wilson partner@kent.edu www.techtrans.kent.edu NOACC: Northern Ohio Area Chambers of Commerce (866) GO-NOACC Vicky Hawke director@noacc.org www.noacc.org

City of Painesville Economic Development Office (440) 392-5795 Cathy Bieterman econdevo@painesville.com www.painesville.com City of Solon Economic Development Office (440) 337-1313 Peggy Weil Dorfman pweil@solonohio.org www.solonohio.org The University of Akron (330) 972-8124 Wayne Watkins wwatkins@uakron.edu www.uakron.edu/acc Youngstown Business Incubator (330) 746-5003 James W. Cossler jcossler@ybi.org www.ybi.org