December 2011 Blog Posts (5)

Business Breakfast Series - The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow them and people will follow you

Join TechColumbus for our continuing Business Breakfast Series: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow them and people will follow you.

Everything rises and falls on leadership: your team, your job, your kids, your marriage, your charity, and even your community. Leadership can be learned and like most subjects in life -…

Last week I attended a very interesting Columbus Metropolitan Club forum featuring Sequoia Capital  venture capitalist Michael Moritz . Michael has invested in some companies that you might have heard of such as Yahoo, Zappos, PayPal and Google. While this is an impressive list it is important to remember that all of these…

Today at TechColumbus' Kinnear Road campus, representatives from the Ohio Department of Development presented new directions and funding opportunities for the Ohio Third Frontier. Since 2002, the Ohio Third Frontier has made strategic investments in emerging technology industries to accelerate commercial activity and create good jobs for Ohio citizens.

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Columbus has shot up in an annual ranking of cities’ economic and job growth, thanks in part to a strong showing by its technology sector.

The metropolitan area was ranked No. 55 in the California-based Milken Institute’s ranking of the 200 best-performing large cities in the U.S., up 53 spots from 108 a year ago. The jump was among the 15 largest in the nation.

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Nanofiber Solutions, LLC, has announced the first successful transplant of its electrospun nanofiber tissue engineered tracheal implant into a 30-year old Baltimore resident, Christopher Lyles, who was diagnosed with inoperable tracheal cancer. 

The transplant was performed November 17, 2011 at the Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge, Stockholm, by Professor Paolo Macchiarini of Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet, and colleagues. Professor Macchiarini led…