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NPR: Youngstown, Ohio: The Rust Belt's Silicon Valley?
NPR: Youngstown, Ohio: The Rust Belt's Silicon Valley? Listen to Story
Reply from Jim C.
So...I heard yesterday from some childhood friends I had lost touch with who are now living in Chicago, Houston and Phoenix.
And we probably heard, based on an eyeball estimate of my email in-box, from another 500 people from places like New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose and Denver. All thanks to National Public Radio nationally broadcasting a story yesterday morning to its 13 million listeners on the amazing software technology cluster being built by our organization in Youngstown, Ohio.
But, here's what we're most excited about.
We received countless numbers of emails from people who grew up in Western Pennsylvania or Northeastern Ohio, but who are now living in places across the country. They told us how thrilled they were to hear the story. They told us they wanted to learn more about what was going on. They told us that they wanted to visit with us the next time they came "home".
That's great, but we're going to go one step further.
We're going to be working very hard to get them all to move "home".
You can listen to the story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100762987
Our special thanks to Ideastream/WCPN and the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University for helping to make this a national story.
Jim Cossler
CEO and Chief Evangelist
Youngstown Business Incubator
330.884.6262
www.ybi.org
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Youngstown Business Incubator
"Connected by Time Warner Cable Business Class"
The Youngstown Business Incubator is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, funded, in part, by the Ohio Department of Development. Its central mission is to accelerate the formation of technology-based businesses, with a preference for working with software application development firms.
Reply from Jim C.
So...I heard yesterday from some childhood friends I had lost touch with who are now living in Chicago, Houston and Phoenix.
And we probably heard, based on an eyeball estimate of my email in-box, from another 500 people from places like New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose and Denver. All thanks to National Public Radio nationally broadcasting a story yesterday morning to its 13 million listeners on the amazing software technology cluster being built by our organization in Youngstown, Ohio.
But, here's what we're most excited about.
We received countless numbers of emails from people who grew up in Western Pennsylvania or Northeastern Ohio, but who are now living in places across the country. They told us how thrilled they were to hear the story. They told us they wanted to learn more about what was going on. They told us that they wanted to visit with us the next time they came "home".
That's great, but we're going to go one step further.
We're going to be working very hard to get them all to move "home".
You can listen to the story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100762987
Our special thanks to Ideastream/WCPN and the Center for Working Class Studies at Youngstown State University for helping to make this a national story.
Jim Cossler
CEO and Chief Evangelist
Youngstown Business Incubator
330.884.6262
www.ybi.org
Please consider the environment before printing this email
The content of this email is [x] blogable [ ] private [ ] ask first
Youngstown Business Incubator
"Connected by Time Warner Cable Business Class"
The Youngstown Business Incubator is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, funded, in part, by the Ohio Department of Development. Its central mission is to accelerate the formation of technology-based businesses, with a preference for working with software application development firms.
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