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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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Start Us Up

By Frank Etheridge
In Business Brief, Local Business, News
April 3, 2019
4 Min Read
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(start us up and we’ll never stop)* Columbus is doubling down on the bet that entrepreneurship is the economic engine that will power the regional economy in the 21st century. In classic Electric City fashion, both private companies and public entities combine to form the full scope of recent local investments cultivating small-business start ups. StartUp Columbus Programs Director Ben...

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