YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR ANNOUNCES DEFENSE INNOVATION HUB WITH SUPPORT FROM U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TIM RYAN

YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR ANNOUNCES DEFENSE INNOVATION HUB WITH SUPPORT FROM U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TIM RYAN

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ACME General Corp. establishes technology development center at YBI

Youngstown, OH – Youngstown Business Incubator (YBI) is announcing that the City of Youngstown, with the support of U.S. Representative Tim Ryan, is welcoming defense innovation firm ACME General Corp. to work on next-generation software platforms and tools in support of development of next-generation national security and defense technologies. Read more

Developing a Dream into one of Ohio's Fastest Growning Wine Companies

DEVELOPING A DREAM INTO ONE OF OHIO’S FASTEST GROWING WINE COMPANIES

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Marisa Sergi is a third-generation winemaker and one of the forces behind Red’s and L’uva Bella Winery. Her family, of course, lent their support and wine-making expertise, but Sergi wanted to make it her mission to understand the business behind making a good bottle of wine. So, after earning a BS in winemaking from Cornell University, she moved to California to work for the largest winery in the U.S. Upon moving back to Ohio, she launched her initial brand, RedHead Wine, now known as Red’s. Read more

A COLLEGE INTERNSHIP THAT FUELED A GLOBAL ASSET ACQUISITION

A COLLEGE INTERNSHIP THAT FUELED A GLOBAL ASSET ACQUISITION

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Rich Wetzel, CEO and co-founder of Freshmade 3D, started out at the YBI in 2014 as an entrepreneurship intern, before becoming a business coordinator in the additive manufacturing (AM) department, and that AM exposure blossomed into his first startup Freshmade 3D. Read more

AI FOR THE WIN: ELEVATING THERAPY SERVICES FOR KIDS

AI FOR THE WIN: ELEVATING THERAPY SERVICES FOR KIDS

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Clinician-driven technology can truly support care delivery AND care experience.
– Lindsay Watson PT, MPT

Augment Therapy was founded in 2017 by CEO Lindsay Watson, a pediatric physical therapist who was searching for a way to solve common problems in her own physical therapy practice – frustration with the inefficiency of treating kids once a week, with no way to help them exercise on a daily basis for faster progress. Read more

YBI’S WE LAUNCH GRADUATES 4 FROM VIRTUAL ACCELERATOR

YBI’s WE Launch Graduates 4 from Virtual Accelerator

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YOUNGSTOWN, OH: On Wednesday, August 19, 2020, the Youngstown Business Incuabtor’s Women in Entrepreneurship Program held its pitch event for its staple accelerator program, WE Launch. WE Launch is a 9 week program designed for women entrepreneurs to launch their business to the next level. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the program looked a little different this year as participants and speakers met via ZOOM instead of the traditional in person classes. Read more

JIM COSSLER ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL RETIREMENT FROM YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR

JIM COSSLER ANNOUNCES OFFICIAL RETIREMENT FROM YOUNGSTOWN BUSINESS INCUBATOR

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YOUNGSTOWN, OH: Jim Cossler, former CEO now Huntington National Bank Entrepreneur in Residence at the Youngstown Business Incubator has announced his retirement, effective January 2021. Read more

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Work From Home Tips for a Changing Office Dynamic

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Over my professional career, I’ve worked in both an office and a remote setting. I’m going to share with you some tips that have helped me over the years. Read more

COVID-19 BUSINESS RESOURCES – 1ST EDITION

COVID-19 Business Resources – 1st Edition

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The Youngstown Business Incubator has compiled a list of resources to help you keep up to date on COVID-19 resources. These links should provide you up to date information as things are changing rapidly.

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The Trip of Impact – A Reflection from Barb Ewing

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The experience of going to Montgomery, Alabama and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice was a watershed event for the Youngstown Business Incubator.  The fact that we were there just days before the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech made the entire experience event more impactful for us.  The fact that we didn’t realize until after we returned that the anniversary was near is a marker to how little we know of our own history, as well as how little the city of Montgomery has embraced its history of civil rights.  Read more

AWS

Why AWS is useful for your business.

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Here at the YBI we are all about using Amazon Web Services (AWS) and we encourage our portfolio companies to take advantage of some of AWS’ resources. In this Guest Blog, Gil Artmoore explains why AWS is useful for your business. Read more