Comments on: Business Incubator Blues

By: Virtual Magpie (the equivocal adventures of Megan M.) » Blog Archive » Incubation Inspiration

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:51:39 +0000

[...] going to schedule any more business while I was in town. But yesterday I had a sit-down with Jim Cossler, and he showed me around the Incubator. Dude, the mad genius things they are doing in that [...]

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:48:10 +0000

I thought that about the incubator site also. It’s very “Templatey” and the tenants logos are really kin thrown up there wherever they would stick.

Of course, What do I know abut design?

P.S. COuldn’t they have found red and white template? What’s up with the orange?

By: Megan M.

Megan M. — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:46:32 +0000

Whoa! That’s incredibly awesome! Thank you for updating me—I lost my contact number for George Lenahan around the time I moved, and I’ve been dying to get back in touch with him to find out what’s going on. I think their whole concept was great and I’m really excited to see what they’ve come up with since.

I did in fact email Jim and he responded in a super friendly fashion (which doesn’t surprise me)! So much good stuff is happening, it’s easy to forget how frustrated I was getting for awhile there. ;}

I am in problem-solving mode for sure!

By: Phil Kidd

Phil Kidd — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:09:54 +0000

Nice post, Magpie. You should shoot an email to Jim with a link to this post. He’ll be more than happy to share his thoughts. He’s as nice a guy as he is a quality YBI Evangelist.

Phil

P.S. Update on Rosetta Stone: Had a $330,000 start up fund. Moved forward, interior is/was done, brought their premier chef up from FLA. The chef dies the month he gets here (insert joke here). Anyways, this proves to be a good thing as the owners rethink their business strategy – decide to up the investment to over $500,000 and expand operations!

The building is done, help wanted flyers are posted all over YSU campus, and they want to be open for First Night Youngstown.