Plains Venture PartnersPlains Venture PartnersPlains Venture PartnersPlains Venture Partners
  • About
  • Portfolio
  • Team
  • Investor Login

News

Home Search results for "Scott Meacham"

Speed is critical for many successful entrepreneurs

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 24 July, 2019 | 0

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

Well-timed pivots can make a project successful

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 18 July, 2019 | 0

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

 GrowOK workshop comes to Durant & McAlester on July 18-19

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 10 July, 2019 | 0

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

Support for entrepreneurs is a moon shot effort

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 10 July, 2019 | 0

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

Starting a company is hard but rewarding work

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 2 July, 2019 | 0

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

Continued investment needed for economic growth

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 25 June, 2019 | 0

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

Augmented Reality assisting those with vision loss

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 19 June, 2019 | 0

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

Norman’s IMMY has global impact, despite humble beginnings

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 11 June, 2019 | 0

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

Ascend BioVentures helps determine right path for health care discoveries

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 7 June, 2019 | 0

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

Remembering those who gave their all in service to our country

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 31 May, 2019 | 0

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

Cybersecurity firm benefits from Oklahoma opportunities

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 27 May, 2019 | 0

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

STEM funding boosts state’s economy

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 7 May, 2019 | 0

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

Life science investment boosts Oklahoma

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 30 April, 2019 | 0

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

Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup benefits students, Oklahoma

By sarah | Love's Cup Featured, Love's Cup News, News | 0 comment | 23 April, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman With a lot of applause and anticipation, we just concluded the 2019 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup, Oklahoma’s only statewide collegiate business plan and pitch competition. This is the competition’s fifteenth year. Hundreds of Oklahomans are involved. A dedicated cadre of business leaders, investors, public sector officials, as wellRead more

Oklahoma college entrepreneurs compete in Love’s Cup

By sarah | Love's Cup Featured, News | 0 comment | 18 April, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Spring is an inspiring time of year around i2E as we enter the final phase of the 2019 Love’s Cup statewide collegiate business plan competition. Oklahoma owes a huge thank you to Love’s Travel Stops for sponsoring the competition, formerly known as the Governor’s Cup and nowRead more

Startup money needed to support entrepreneurs

By sarah | Featured, News | 0 comment | 9 April, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman When Gov. Kevin Stitt announced his vision for making Oklahoma a Top 10 State, those of us representing the Oklahoma Innovation Model — comprising OCAST (Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology), the Oklahoma Manufacturing Alliance (OMA), Oklahoma State University New Product Development Center (NPDC)Read more

Innovation is key to economic development

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 2 April, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman Innovate. Innovate. Innovate. That’s the common theme in today’s economy. Innovation stimulates entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurship creates net new jobs. Driving innovation through collaboration to create jobs is the entire reason for being of the public-private consortium of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and TechnologyRead more

Funding available in Oklahoma for each step of development

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 19 March, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman I always tell every new company that I talk to: You have to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. The same thing applies to the capital path. The great thing for startups in this state is that The Oklahoma Innovation Model, which is uniqueRead more

Broadband critical for economic development

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 13 March, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © (2019), The Oklahoman I learn something new practically every day in this job. For example, did you know that Oklahoma has a state meal? According to the Oklahoma Historical Society website, that spread includes chicken-fried steak, barbecued pork, fried okra, squash, cornbread, grits, corn, sausage with biscuits and gravy, black-eyedRead more

No trade-off with innovation and capital

By sarah | News | 0 comment | 7 March, 2019 | 0

By Scott Meacham Copyright © 2019, The Oklahoman In the business of creating new high-growth companies, “trade-off” is the name of the game. From idea to IPO, from survival mode to success, entrepreneurship calls for constant prioritizing and re-prioritizing. With limited capital — financial and human — for the first few years of a startup’sRead more

123

Investor Login

  • Disclaimer & Disclosure

Oklahoma City Location

840 Research Parkway, Suite 250
OKC, OK 73104
PHONE 405/235-2305

Click HERE for directions.

Tulsa Location

618 E. Third Street, Suite 1
Tulsa, OK 74120
PHONE 918/582-5592

Click HERE for directions.

  • Disclaimer & Disclosure
Copyright 2021 i2E, Inc. | All Rights Reserved
  • About
  • Portfolio
  • Team
  • Funds
  • Investor Login
Plains Venture Partners