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| 02/15/2013 | FRITSCH joins NIIC | | |  The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center has hired a successful entrepreneur who has been an important force behind the growth of Fort Wayne’s technology community.
Mike Fritsch, co-owner of Zoom Information Systems, a tenant at the center, joined the NIIC’s staff late last year to fill an entrepreneur-in-residence position it had created. |
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| 07/16/2012 | Versatile swimwear is local designer’s specialty | | | Article published Jul 16, 2012 by Hana Hawash of The News-Sentinel
Although Fort Wayne is no New York City, people still hear mention of “the Fort” because of talents that have emerged.
To further that cause and support the city's local business owners, Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast holds a contest for entrepreneurs who are Ivy Tech students or alumni who dream of starting their own businesses.
That's how Olivia Fabian, founder of OFabz Swimwear, achieved a strong start. With a $20,000 donation from JB Tool, Die & Engineering and Ivy Tech's continued interest in empowering Fort Wayne through its New Venture Competition, Fabian's dream of being a business owner came true.
Fabian, an Ivy Tech graduate, is from Fort Wayne and grew up designing costumes for figure skaters at home with her mother. These costumes have been sold all around the world, as they are sought-after, custom-designed originals. Fabian continued to design her own version of these costumes by using the same techniques and materials to create her own versatile swimsuits. |
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| 06/08/2012 | Crowdfunding an alternative for startups seeking capital | | |
Karl LaPan, president and chief executive officer for the Innovation Center, said less than 15 percent of ventures seeking funding obtain angel capital. Less than 1 percent receive venture capital.
“If we are going to grow high-quality jobs and high-potential companies we need to source early-stage funding to get good ideas off the ground. Today, a small number of serial angel investors control the early-stage deal flow,” LaPan said.
With crowdfunding, “I think the pace and rate of startup ventures will accelerate, and more non-venturable firms needing modest amounts of capital can get cost-effective access to capital without diluting their ownership materially or paying too much for the capital.”
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| 05/24/2012 | Lunch delivery service caters to downtown | | | The kitchen is beautiful. Stainless steel everywhere. And the space? There’s so much of it, making plenty of elbow room for Tammi McKee and her five part-time employees as they make and prepare lunches for between 45 and 65 Fort Wayne professionals each weekday afternoon.
McKee owns Comfort Food Delivered, a catering business that specializes in making and delivering lunches to downtown Fort Wayne and businesses within a five-mile radius of Stellhorn and St. Joe roads. McKee’s business is in the Cole Foundation Conference & Training Center, on the grounds of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center on Stellhorn Road.
Comfort Food started after McKee, for the first time in her life, found herself unemployed in 2009. She was laid off from a job with the city and, after three months of not working, decided to make a change.
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| 04/29/2012 | BioPoly Partial Knee Resurfacing Shows Promise | | | London Clinic consultant Mr. Dinesh Nathwani successfully performed the world's first BioPoly partial knee resurfacing procedure on the 9th January at The Advanced Therapies Centre, a newly launched clinical trials facility at The London Clinic, which aims to offer patients a range of innovative therapy choices by accessing trials and novel therapies. BioPoly knee surgery in combination with anti-inflammatories allows the patient to immediately bear weight on their joint by using a new material, which is a combination of hyaluronic acid and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. The material combination is sufficiently strong to take the weight of the body, whilst maintaining a degree of flexibility that other standard metal replacements cannot. It also improves the wear qualities of the prosthesis and has a biologically lubricated surface that effectively interacts with the body's natural tissues. |
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| 03/21/2012 | Student Venture Lab Demo Day March 2012 | | | Entrepreneurs, investor, and community leaders came together March 6 to hear pitches from the Innovation Center's latest Student Venture Lab cohort. Justin Sharpe, Brendan Bogan, and Olivia Fabian presented. |
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| 02/22/2012 | Entrepreneurship an Option for Students with Passion | | | This article exhorting student entrepreneurship touches on the Innovation Center's programs, our CEO Karl LaPan's early entrepreneurial efforts when he was a student, and Student Venture Lab company Olivia Fabian's OFabz Swimwear. |
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| 11/09/2011 | PYPline Receives Innovation Award | | | NIIC Student Venture PYPline, LLC won the Emerging Company category in the 2011 Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly's Innovation Awards. |
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| 11/09/2011 | Cirrus ABS Receives Innovation Award | | | Cirrus ABS was honored with the 2011 Professional Services category Innovation Award at the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly's annual Innovation Awards. |
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| 10/28/2011 | Students recognized for creativity at Youth Entrepreneur Symposium | | | HUNTINGTON, Ind.— On Oct. 25, Huntington University hosted the fifth annual Youth Entrepreneur Symposium. Sophomores, juniors and seniors from Huntington North High School along with HU students participated in the day-long event. Steve Franks of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center was the facilitator for the day. |
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| 09/29/2011 | Global Alliance to Stimulate Region’s Economic Development | | | • 1st Global Alliance for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship (GATTE) • First global partnership of this size to be created • Establishes network to stimulate northeast Indiana economy • Coincides with the 1st Indiana-Taiwan Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship Summit taking place this week at IPFW
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| 09/19/2011 | Ivy Tech Grad Crowned Venture Champion | | | A recent Ivy Tech Community College−Northeast graduate is launching a swimwear company after winning an inaugural venture competition. Olivia Fabian will receive nearly $30,000 to start Ofabz swimwear. Launch: New Venture Competition was created by Ivy Tech-Northeast and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center to promote economic development and job creation. |
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| 07/08/2011 | Keep eyes on future, acclaimed SACS told | | | An education consultant says Southwest Allen County Schools is one of the strongest districts in the state but that it may need to adjust its priorities to maintain that position. |
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| 06/16/2011 | Ivy Tech Program Aims to "Launch" Student Startups | | | Four area residents who have completed the business development class at Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast have started using what they learned to compete against each other this summer — before they attempt to survive against more seasoned competition in the business community. |
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| 06/16/2011 | Small Device The Result of Big Dreams | | | When Herb Schwartz left his research and development management job at DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. seven years ago, he also left behind all the data and ideas he’d helped generate at the global orthopedic device maker. |
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| 06/06/2011 | Why Business Incubators? | | | For the new breed of entrepreneurs who inhabit Richard Florida’s Creative Class world, place takes on a special meaning: It’s a community of inventors, innovators, small business owners, scientists, freelancers and the next generation of serial e n t r e p r e n e u r s launching their first ventures — all banded together in pursuit of success. |
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| 06/02/2011 | BioPoly Receives CE Mark Approval to Market Knee Product in Europe | | | BioPoly LLC, has received official notice of its CE mark for its partial resurfacing knee product line, allowing the company to market these products in Europe, according to company officials. As a result, the company is planning to launch the BioPoly™ RS Partial Resurfacing Knee Implant system in Europe later this year. |
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| 05/19/2011 | Solstice Medical | | | Solstice Medical Receives Patent for Gamma Sterilizable RFID Tag
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| 05/04/2011 | BioPoly receives $2.5M in additional financing | | | Fort Wayne-based BioPoly LLC, a subsidiary of Schwartz Biomedical, has secured another $2.5 million in equity financing, bringing the amount raised for the company’s first orthopedic product to $8.1 million, Chief Financial Officer Sabra Rowley said. |
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| 04/14/2011 | Northeast Indiana Entrepreneurs Celebrate | | | Seven Fort Wayne-area entrepreneurs say winning Purdue University's Startup Weekend competition will provide a "life changing" boost to their business plan. |
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| 03/03/2011 | Venture-plan contest meets reality TV | | | James Tolbert’s brainstorm could pay off big for one lucky local entrepreneur. We’re talking 50 G’s and a whole new career. Tolbert, Ivy Tech Northeast’s business administration program chairman, can’t shut off his active imagination, even while watching mindless reality TV. |
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| 12/31/2010 | NIIC takes a stake in student businesses | | | Many useful skills that are fun to develop have a learning curve that can be daunting without a little coaching from a guru in the field. Fort Wayne-based GooRoo builds online communities to help with that. |
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| 10/13/2010 | Be innovative, seminars urge | | | The chief project engineer for Intellitek Systems of Fort Wayne is offering a series of free Web conferences this month to businesses on navigating a tough economy. |
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| 09/29/2010 | Innovation Center Client Company Announces New Distribution Partnership | | | SCADATA Scientific, LLC, has recently executed an agreement with Precision Systems, Inc., located in Calumet City, IL. This agreement will allow Precision Systems to exclusively distribute Scadata products & services throughout the United States for the Water & Waste Water vertical market. |
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| 09/29/2010 | Fourth Wave treading water | | | Ask about FourthWave and you’re met with blank stares, carefully chosen words and shoulder shrugs.
And these reactions come from those once integral to the technology holding company.
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| 07/30/2010 | Starting a business: It takes more than just an idea | | | Entrepreneurship is first and foremost a mindset. It is the art of finding creative and profitable solutions to everyday problems. Every successful entrepreneur has been someone who’s been able to identify a problem, an unmet need or unfulfilled want and come up with a solution to it before somebody else did.
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| 07/09/2010 | Firm helps docs’ financial health | | | Seven years ago, financial planner and recent college graduate Paul Larson was referred to a physician seeking help with his money affairs. |
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| 05/11/2010 | Questa Foundation Investing $500,000 in High-Tech Training | | | Questa Foundation for Education formally announced today that it will invest over a half million dollars from its Questa Scholars 1/2 Back Loan program over the next five years to aid area college students who pursue careers in advanced manufacturing and engineering. |
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| 04/30/2010 | Acquired TrustBearer operation to stay in city | | | The work force of TrustBearer Labs has continued its development of identity authentication systems in Fort Wayne under the direction of its founder, David Corcoran, following its purchase by VeriSign |
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| 04/26/2010 | Software a family project for 4 Fort Wayne siblings | | | Three brothers and a sister in a Fort Wayne family, all students at Indiana Tech, are an internship unto themselves. They began work last fall on a package of design and animation software that they hope will allow children and teenagers to collaborate on educational video projects powered by their imaginations and broadband Internet connections. |
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| 04/15/2010 | Tech Park Leader Named to Bank Board | | | Karl R. LaPan has been named to the Board of Directors of Grabill Bank, announced Michael C. Marhenke, Chief Executive Officer and President. LaPan replaces John D. Auld, who currently serves as Director Emeritus. |
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| 04/10/2010 | Software a family project for 4 Fort Wayne siblings | | | Three brothers and a sister in a Fort Wayne family, all students at Indiana Tech, are an internship unto themselves. They began work last fall on a package of design and animation software that they hope will allow children and teenagers to collaborate on educational video projects powered by their imaginations and broadband Internet connections. |
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| 04/06/2010 | VeriSign Acquires TrustBearer | | | On April 1, 2010, VeriSign, Inc. completed the acquisition of substantially all assets of TrustBearer Labs, LLC. |
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| 03/19/2010 | IntelliTek launches business social networking product | | | A Fort Wayne software company that just started renting space at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center said it won’t be charging user fees for its software and it is adding a business social networking product to its family of business management tools.
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| 03/05/2010 | Students move into NIIC venture lab | | | Two ventures that were started by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne students are the latest occupants at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. |
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| 02/05/2010 | PearlDiver poised for growth in 2010 | | | Fort Wayne-based PearlDiver Technologies Inc. is poised for growth in 2010 on a number of fronts, said Rob Young, vice president of business development. |
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