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Sunday Q&A: Ben MacMinn

By Frank Etheridge
In Sunday Q&A, Local Business, Non-Profits
November 29, 2020
8 Min Read
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Director, StartUp Columbus Why has Columbus struggled in recent decades to foster small businesses and entrepreneurship?“There are a lot of different reasons that people have given for it. I have my speculations, which are that we’ve had a lot of really successful large businesses. For the population, we probably have more Fortune 1,000 companies than any community our size. the size of our city...

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Fertile Soil? Columbus’ Entrepreneurial Eco-System

By Frank Etheridge
In Insight, News, Uncategorized
August 14, 2018
9 Min Read
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Hosting her next-to-last “Let’s Talk” community-conversation series inside the Springer Opera House in March, Mayor Teresa Tomlinson was asked by a South Columbus resident what the city was going to do to bring back the banks and retailers where the elderly woman had long deposited and spent her money. Though blunt in stating such big-box operations won’t be coming back—not to South Columbus, not...

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