Advancing Ohio Entrepreneurship Last week we talked face to face with the CEO of VentureOhio, a venture capital company with an approach to increase capital to everyone that is ready to do the next big thing. For Ohio, from Ohio. CEO Falon Donohue “I certainly did not expect this path to end up [...]
A Columbus, Ohio 3D printing company building its reputation one layer at a time. IC3D is a 3D printing company that does a little bit of everything. The company manufactures and sells its own line of 3D printing filament and also offers other services from printing products to modeling. Michael Cao, founder of IC3D [...]
Luck or Skill? There’s an ancient question in the investment markets, which is affecting the marketplace in a variety of ways: is an active manager’s investment performance the result of luck or skill? The layperson’s answer would be obvious: anybody who has expertise and works hard at something should, eventually, produce results superior to what […]
Student loan debt is one of the fastest rising debts of this generation. Americans currently owe a combined of $1.34 trillion on their student loans. On average, college undergrads are paying 28% more for college than a decade ago, and 65% more than 20 years ago. To mitigate this, it’s important that if you or [...]
We’ve been hearing for years that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2034, and a close reading of the Social Security Administration’s Trustee Report projections ( https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/ ) show what this would mean. The Estimates By that time, based on estimates of the number of people earning an income […]
Danella Hicks, the founder and Executive Director of All THAT (a youth-mentoring nonprofit) shows her compassion in our office interview with her Friday morning. A Detroit native, Danella served in the U.S. Army for 4 years and gained a CPA certification (Certified Public Accountant) before founding All THAT in late winter of 2009. Raising eleven [...]
The Human Service Chamber of Franklin County is an organization that is dedicated to helping other nonprofits prosper in Central Ohio. Michael Corey, the recent Executive Director is radiating philanthropy and dedication in this interview with our senior advisor, Tony Jones. Starting out, Michael graduated from Ohio State's Moritz College of Law and is the [...]
A Journalist Career A Kent State grad, Katy Smith, the most recent editor of the information-packed ColumbusCEO magazine is in our spotlight this week for our weekly live broadcast. Starting early, Katy outset her career working at the Columbus Dispatch, covering state and government legislature and carried herself to multiple other publications later on. For [...]
Shifting Economic Balance Ever wonder how the balance of the world’s economies have changed over the last 120 years? Here’s a really interesting snapshot (see graphic), which shows the size of many countries’ stock markets at the beginning of the 1900s (as a percentage of the total), and as of the start of this year. […]
Skyrocketing Student Loans- While some are worried about the rapidly growing U.S. national debt, others are looking at a different debt bomb that is slowly ticking in American households. Debt by Americans age 19 to 29 years old exceeded an astonishing $1 trillion at the end of last year, the highest exposure for the group […]
