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The program connects active and retired executives and other business professionals with entrepreneurs and students preparing to launch startups — and there's something for both mentors and their proteges to learn, says I-Corps local organizer.
From Crain's Akron Business: The city's big downtown business incubator had a banner year in 2021, achieving record attendance and occupancy in spite of the pandemic.
Akron's I-Corps prepares entrepreneurs to fill a market need Elyse Ball leads a pre-pandemic class at an I-Corps session in Akron. Akron continues to get support for its startups from a federal program many people have probably never heard of: the National Science Foundation's Innovation Corps program, better known to participants as simply I-Corps. It's been a sort of boot camp for entrepreneurs affiliated with the University of Akron and Kent State University for nearly eight years. "We're able to accommodate about 25 companies per cohort, and we run three cohorts a year," said local I-Corp...