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By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I have learned over the past six years that the single most important advice I can give an entrepreneur is this: Never underestimate the importance of going fast. Once you stick your head up, the world is going to respond. Some people will buy into your idea.Read more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I set a goal for this summer’s series of columns to reflect on and write about my lessons-learned during my past six years of immersion in entrepreneurship. Our focus at i2E is on high-growth technology or life sciences businesses, but startups of every stripe are vital toRead more

July 10, 2019 i2E, Inc. and the Choctaw Nation provide intensive, one-day business assessment class to help small businesses validate concepts, expand market, capture new revenues Contact: Darcy Wilborn, (405) 813-2424 contact@growok.org GrowOK, a free one-day venture assessment workshop designed to help rural and tribal entrepreneurs understand the markets they serve, is coming to DurantRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman This month we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was President John F. Kennedy’s idea. In 1961, the president challenged NASA and the nation to land an astronaut on the moon before the decade was over. Russia had taken the lead inRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Oklahoma’s expanding innovation economy is having a significant and lasting effect on our state. Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs build companies and create jobs through the realization of their dreams, inventions and hard work. I wanted to contribute, and I wanted to learn — about innovation, about creating sources ofRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman In today’s world, a state’s economic growth demands investment in innovation and high-tech industries — especially for a natural resource-rich state like ours that must leverage our existing resource base to diversify our economy for the future. It’s a straightforward proposition. If we believe that more andRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Augmented Reality, the interactive combination of real and computer generated worlds, has been around for a while. AR technologies superimpose a computer-generated text, image, or sound on the view of the real world. If you have pointed your iPhone camera at the night sky to see theRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019 The Oklahoman Sean and Scott Bauman, CEO and chief operating officer of biotechnology company IMMY, literally grew up in the family business. “There isn’t a job that my brother and I haven’t done,” Sean said, “from sweeping the floor to putting together bulk mailings, whatever needed to be done,Read more

By Kevan Goff-ParkerCopyright © 2019 The Oklahoman Greater Oklahoma City Chamber Manager of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Evan Fay said he believes some people may be caught off-guard by Oklahoma’s growing bioscience prowess. He made his remarks during the final hours Thursday of the Bio International Conference in Philadelphia as the state’s more than 40 OKBioRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman It’s really difficult to invent new drug therapies. Research and development can take decades. Once a potential drug appears viable, testing for safety and efficacy adds more years. At every stage, risk of failure is extreme. Ascend BioVentures, a pharmaceutical accelerator company, helps Oklahoma’s early stage therapeuticsRead more

By Kevan Goff-Parker Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman PHILADELPHIA — Three Oklahoma State University researchers this week have been connecting face-to-face with some of the world’s top bioscience companies during the 2019 BIO International Convention in Philadelphia. As part of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber’s branded Oklahoma Bioscience Association (OKBio) delegation, the three OSU-based delegatesRead more

By Kevan Goff-Parker Copyright ©2019, The Oklahoman PHILADELPHIA — More than 40 Oklahoma bioscience and industry experts from a wide array of fields are busy telling global industry leaders about the state’s successes in the bioscience sector during the BIO International Conference held Tuesday through Thursday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Manu Nair,Read more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019 The Oklahoman Each year on Memorial Day, we honor the military men and women who gave their lives serving our country. Memorial Day is so much more than just a day off work. It is an observation started 151 years ago by order of John Alexander Logan, a CivilRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman As I talk daily with Oklahoma’s entrepreneurs, elected officials and investors, I have yet to find one single person who does not agree that economic diversification is critical to our state’s future. However, as easy as it may be to gain agreement that economic diversification is aRead more

May 21, 2019  Contact: Sarah Seagraves, Senior VP for Marketing (405) 813-2403 sseagraves@i2E.org  THG Energy Solutions, LLC, is an innovative software-as-a-service energy data and technology provider OKLAHOMA CITY — i2E, Inc. and the George Kaiser Family Foundation recently co-led a $4 million Series A investment round in THG Energy Solutions, LLC, a Tulsa and Austin-basedRead more

i2E, Inc. and the Cherokee Nation provide intensive, one-day business assessment class to help small businesses validate concepts, expand market, capture new revenues  Contact: Darcy Wilborn, (405) 813-2424 contact@growok.org A pair of free workshops designed to help rural and tribal entrepreneurs and small business owners understand the markets they serve and increase sales are scheduledRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Oklahoma is a great place to live. Oklahoma is a great place to work. We are a state that seems ready to seize the moment and leverage the quality of life and business-friendly advantages here to add innovation and technology-based economic development to Oklahoma’s list of “greats.”Read more

By Jim Stafford Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Five patients are waiting to see their doctor, each displaying different symptoms. One has a bright rash on her face. Another is suffering from arthritis. Still another has kidney failure, while the fourth patient suffers from heart problems and the fifth is fatigued all the time. TurnsRead more

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman At i2E, we like to invest in life sciences companies. About 40 percent of our portfolio is in therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. We recognize the abundant opportunity for these types of startups in Oklahoma, and we have developed the staff, expertise and partnerships to commercialize technologiesRead more

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK and CHICAGO, IL April 18, 2019 – Simergent closed a $2.835M seed round to continue developing an affordable home dialysis system for the US and abroad. Simergent’s Archimedes automated peritoneal dialysis system will allow access to home dialysis at a much more affordable price point with world-class patient usability and patient safetyRead more