SoLo Funds Is Reimagining Personal Lending

More than three in four Americans — 78 percent — report that they are living paycheck to paycheck, a number which has grown year over year in the last decade. Unexpected car trouble or necessary dental work can be enough to cripple someone who’s struggling just to make ends meet, and unfortunately, fair, safe options

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Building Blockland: Cleveland First City To Partner With Blockchain Research Institute

Cleveland is the first city where small businesses and nonprofits will have free access to data and research from the Blockchain Research Institute. The institute, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, announced the partnership with the region at a Greater Cleveland Partnership meeting Thursday morning. The meeting was centered on Cleveland car mogul Bernie Moreno’s Blockchain effort,

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SaaS And Cloud Industry Leader Don Cook Joins 7SIGNAL As Chief Marketing Officer

7SIGNAL®, a leader in enterprise cloud Wi-Fi Performance Management, announced today that technology veteran, Don Cook, has joined the company as the chief marketing officer. Cook brings more than 15 years of global marketing leadership experience and a proven track record of driving innovation, market adoption and growth across the technology and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industries.

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The Best New iPhone Apps For August 2018

A big part of Apple‘s success, from the beginning, has been the humble app. Apps give developers a chance to make money via the trillion-dollar company’s tech, while users get to customize their products in order to fit their needs. In order to keep you abreast of all the best, we sit down and look

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SaberLogic: $2 Million Invested In Bezlio App

After 16 years operating as a consulting business for the manufacturing and distribution industries, downtown-based SaberLogic changed gears and raised $2 million for a new business venture. “Over the years, we have seen a lot of the same problems with our clients over and over again,” SaberLogic CEO Adam Ellis said Monday. “Like a lot

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JumpStart’s Original Investment Fund Pays Off

JumpStart made good money on its original nonprofit investment fund — enough to sustain the organization’s efforts to invest in local tech startups for the foreseeable future while also paying for new programs designed to help entrepreneurs. So far, JumpStart has more than doubled the $27 million put into the first version of its Evergreen

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Travis Holoway Came To KC To Crush Payday Lenders — With Just An App

Lesa Mitchell stood in the teller line at her bank as a young man and his grandmother explained his plight. His payday loan to cover a bus pass had ballooned out of control. He needed $200 to get out of a financial mess. “I literally wrote him a check,” Mitchell said, and extracted a promise

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Initiative Aims To Boost Minority- And Women-Owned Businesses

A new initiative is intended to help launch and grow women- and minority-owned businesses in the Capital Region and other upstate cities. JumpStart, an organization that works with small business owners and entrepreneurs, received $24 million from the KeyBank Foundation to help support women and minority business owners in upstate New York and Ohio. Through

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Midwest Investors Double Down On Fintech Startup

Cleveland Startup Mezu Raises $10M Series A Round with Funding from Draper Triangle Ventures, JumpStart, Draper Associates, the Ohio Innovation Fund and North Coast Angel Fund Midwest investors are all in on Cleveland fintech startup Mezu (www.mezu.com). The company officially launched its mobile payment app this summer after raising a $10M Series A round and quickly drawing attention from

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Crain’s Women Of Note 2018: Cathy Belk

Cathy Belk grew up on a steady diet of biographies about successful women — books her mom, a teacher, made her read in elementary school. She remembers reading one called “Girls Can Do Anything.” She thought it was an odd title, given all the other books she’d read. “I was like, ‘Of course girls can

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Five Things We Learned From Lisnr CEO Rodney Williams’ CNBC Interview

Rodney Williams, co-founder and CEO of Cincinnati startup Lisnr, sat down with CNBC’s “Make It” to talk about everything from leaving Procter & Gamble to going six figures into debt to launch his company. Williams co-founded Lisnr in 2012 while still working at P&G. Lisnr creates inaudible smart tones that can transmit data between any

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