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If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.
If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.
If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.
A global pharmaceutical company will pay up to $665 million for an Oklahoma City research firm that recently completed a large trial of a drug that treats pain among those with sickle cell disease.
A global pharmaceutical company will pay up to $665 million for an Oklahoma City research firm that recently completed a large trial of a drug that treats pain among those with sickle cell disease.
The Tech Showcase audience also heard presentations from Pryor’s HE&M Saw; Optecks and Synercon, both of Tulsa; Spiers New Technologies from Oklahoma City; and Amethyst Research Inc. of Ardmore. The event was sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST).
If you are in a decision-making position in an Oklahoma company, is there any reason you wouldn’t want to consider doing business with a startup? You might think that there’s too much risk with a startup. Personally, I like optimism and passion. I favor businesses that stretch, that run lean, and that focus on cashflow. And I like to be part of helping a new business grow. I bet when you think about it, you do too.
TokenEx, a company founded in 2010, had won the 2016 Metro 50 Award. TokenEx was recognized as the Oklahoma City metro area’s No. 1 ranked company with three-year revenue growth of 578 percent. While it may have flown under the radar locally, TokenEx is having a major impact in the data protection industry.
What if established Oklahoma companies opened the door in a very deliberate way to the entrepreneurs and startups in our state? What if they became that special customer or supplier for an Oklahoma startup? i2E has a well-vetted portfolio of young businesses, some with customers that could act as a reference and some at an earlier stage. These are entrepreneurial firms with big ideas, groundbreaking solutions, and founding teams that are solving old problems with new ideas.
In 1997, a British rock band funded a reunion tour through online donations from its fans. This may have been the first example of a concept now known as crowdfunding. It was only a matter of time until someone thought of using the platform to fund a real estate project. Ashley Smith, who along with Tim and Marylee Strange, is adding convenience and efficiency to the fragmented commercial real estate crowdfunding platforms with their new company called CrowdSeekr.
Lithium ion batteries haven’t become more dangerous in recent years. But with more and more devices being powered by the batteries — and with portable technology becoming increasing prevalent — more opportunities for problems have developed. That, at least in part, is a reason that the potential hazards are more on the public’s radar, said Kent Faith, CEO of SpectrumFX.
Budding entrepreneurs, looking to see if their technology ideas could be viable, can get a chance to test drive them at Startup OKC. The weekend-long event will be from 6:30 p.m. Friday to 9 p.m. Sunday in downtown Oklahoma City at the OKC Innovation Station, 133 W Main St., Suite 102. Startup OKC will bring together developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups.
Gutenberg adapted the principles of the wine press and used it as the foundation of the first printing press. His innovation became a perfect example of a concept called exaptation, which is taking an existing idea and repurposing it for use as something else. That’s the concept behind Oklahoma City’s Exaptive, a startup with a mission to facilitate serendipity. Exaptive does that by enabling the manipulation of large amounts of data so that diverse, disparate data sets can be synthesized, analyzed, and used as the foundation for new ideas.
Many successful companies have some sort of dedicated innovation funding. Some companies prefer not to innovate internally and use innovation funds for acquisition of innovation developed outside the company. It seems to me that there is another path to corporate innovation that we could leverage more in this state — strategic partnerships between existing Oklahoma companies with startups that are developing leading edge technologies and solutions that solve problems of the company or its customers. When a company finds a startup (or more than one) that’s tackling a problem it wants to solve, becoming an early investor or strategic partner in that startup opens some interesting doors.
Specific to Sonesta St. Maarten, global hospitality technology provider Monscierge has developed a custom integration that provides check-in functionality for guests, as well as verifying requests made by guests using the resort’s mobile app throughout their stay. The Sonesta St. Maarten’s partnership with Monscierge comes with a full range of Monscierge Connect products, including Mobile, CMS, Lobby and Staff. This technology suite provides local and resort information to guests’ mobile devices and lobby touchscreens, as well as seamless mobile communication between staff members and guests, and tracking and reporting analytics.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 7’s exploding battery has pilots and aviation industry experts concerned about lithium-ion batteries catching fire on aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration banned Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from being on airplanes because of the potential of explosive batteries. Because those fires burn so hot, there’s new technology, built in Tulsa, available that the maker says is ideal for putting out the phone fires.
This state is always going to have to reconcile times of boom and bust until we reduce our collective dependence on oil and gas. We need investment from the state, but we also need creative participation from everybody else. There are Oklahoma corporations, initiatives, and people who get that and are doing something. One such business is Kimray, Inc., a world-class manufacturer of control equipment used extensively in oil and gas production around the globe.
Roll-2-Roll Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent web guide systems and web position sensors for the roll-to-roll and converting industry, has entered a partnership with manufacturing distributor firm Power/mation, a leading distributor of high-tech industrial automation technologies in the US Midwest.
