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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'How do we attract young...

Not sure if its about a building, as much as a culture. We got plenty of buildings around here - but no one to occupy them.

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'How do we attract young...

Good point Mike. Entrepreneurial efforts around here are typically stodgy affairs which only the most buttoned up, 'stuffed shirts' would attend. If we can product live events which spawn a culture of...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Regional Collaboration in...

Dan - "how can you ask questions like this?" Under what circumstances would someone NOT want to collaborate? Even better - why would they come to a site like this and say "I don't want to collaborate?"...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'A call for transparency and...

Thank you sir for this well worded request. I can't see any reason (both as a Shaker Heights resident and parent of two girls attending Boulevard elementary school) to NOT have transparency in the...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Come to the public forum on March 21st!

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Is JumpStart using their money wisely?

Ray Leach of JumpStart recently told us that they've helped over 400+ companies. But by the time Obama spoke - that number had risen to 3,000. Despite their claims of success - can you name me anyone...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Since my introductory text is not displaying - I'll repeat myself: My partner Ron Copfer and myself have been publicly asking embarrassing and hard questions - which is decidedly NOT a Cleveland...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Here's the archive of the email trail that transpired between Ron Copfer, Ray Leach, Cathy Belk and Mike Burkons. It is this email trail which has led to a public forum on March 21st on JumpStart...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Here's the Henry Gomez article (Plain Dealer) from 2006 which questioned both Nortech and JumpStart's effective usage of Thirs Frontier money. The scary thing is that many of these same issues are...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Not only is the Internet a place where we can have civil, respectful conversations like this - but it's also a place where we can transparently hold non-profit executives accountable for their actions...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Regional Collaboration in...

Whenever I mention working with Akron or Y'town in meetings in Cleveland - I get "why?" People in Cleveland just don't seem to understand what its like to be living in their shadow. It all seems really...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'So, where would you cut the state...

As an outsider we went to register our car and found - to our horror - a department called the 'Title Department'. One doesn't maintain possession of the title to their car. They are required to submit...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

The outcome was just about what I expected - nothing. I certainly didn't expect to get escorted out by the cops. That marks the first time in 54 years that's ever happened to me. I guess they didn't...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Where POTIS claimed that JumpStart had helped over 3,000 companies. Only problem - that was not an accurate #. We're been trying to find out who changed the real #'s. Was it JumpStart or was it the...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

yes - I've heard the argument many times, and it was repeated last night - how bad things were BEFORE JumpStart and how wonderful things are now. I hate to break it to you. The advice they give is not...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

hey Chris - that's great! Congrats! I haven't had the opportunity of actually meeting anyone who's benefited from the McKinsey-style thinking that JumpStart propagates. Let me give you some insights...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Ron thinks Ray will give us the names of the 54 portfolio companies. I am not holding my breath. One thing we know for sure - the next time two facilitators walk up to you and tell you they're going to...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'How do we attract young...

YPs are only interested in activities which are interesting, fun and relevant. On-line content projects like Uncomm.tv are just that. Keep up the great work Barb!

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Marc Canter responded to the issue 'Entrepreneurship'

A trickle down approach should be utilized which has the "Haves" and trained folks helping the "Have nots". It'll be a whole lot cheaper than JumpStart.

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Marc Canter responded to the issue 'Entrepreneurship'

Come up with other ways of supporting entrepreneurs than Venture Capital!

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

A good friend - Brad DeGraf created an alternative VC - which was a non-profit - called Media Venture Collective. It was practically the opposite of JumpStart - it ONLY funded art projects,...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Its a crime that 99.9% of all startups will never be let in the front door at JumpStart. That has to change. But to do that JumpStart has ot stop acting like a VC. That's not needed here in NEO. IMHO....

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'What is the value of arts and...

We were doing some forensics on what happened to Case? How come the merger of the Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology - failed so miserably? Especially when you compare the...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Cuts for the Cleveland Schools:...

When I taught internship programs and other activities inside the Design lab and MC2 I was stunned that all computers had their right-click button disabled and that NO on-line video was allowed on the...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Is JumpStart using their money...

Indeed we entrepreneurs are on our own. What bugs me is that JumpStart is the only game in town and that everyone sends us to JumpStart = but they have no intention on doing business with us. Thus is...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'City of Oberlin 2025'

Though I'm not a resident, I am a graduate. I remember Fred Starr asking me similar questions when I came back (as a conquering hero) with money in my pocket. I told him the same thing I'll mention...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'City of Oberlin 2025'

Integrated environment with a shared oral history, collective wisdom and economic activity - which sends Ruth's Beads - around the world.

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Creative Financing for Local Foods'

Worm farms are a great way to share the wealth. Simply by handing out Quart buckets or fertile earth, enriched with worms - neighbors can transplant these worms into THEIR gardens and share your wealth...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'How would you spend $100 million?'

1. DON'T give ANY money to Venture Capitalists. They have plenty of money already, and they just squander it - anyway! 2. Do NOT hire ANY McKenzie guys or gals - or listen to anyone who even looks like...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'How would you spend $100 million?'

coolio like i said - we need like five of these incubators - one for health - one for energy - three for on-line tech

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Have You Met Cleveland?'

Democratize Entrepreneurship?  You mean sort of like banks giving loans with no collateral or VCs returning your phone call? Capitalism is not a democracy.  No government intervention, wishful thinking...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Have You Met Cleveland?'

A cynical person could say that the powers that be, the 1%ers, who control everything and take care of their children and their friend's children - just LOVE to get up on stage and pontificate on...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'What the frack is fracking!?'

How 'bout a videogame about fracking? Kids (and adults) can do their own drilling in their own imaginary ancient river bed/watershed area.  Players would set off explosives (which is always fun) and...

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Marc Canter responded to the conversation 'Filming in Cleveland'

Indeed Film Commisions, like Ivan's - have sprouted up around the country.  They offer tax incentves to film producers to entice them to come "film here." It should be pointe dout - that NONE of the...

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