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Checking the pulse of the Midwest’s entrepreneurial future
(Guest post by Robert Hatta) It’s 11:30 p.m. on a Friday and 1,200 computer science and engineering students surround me. They have come from across the country to the University of Michigan’s north campus to participate in MHacks, a career fair mashed up with a weekend-long tech orgy where sleep-deprived geeks try to build the…
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Drive Capital co-founder announced as keynote speaker at TAI’s i2iowa
The Technology Association of Iowa announced Monday that Drive Capital co-founder Chris Olsen will be the keynote speaker at the organization’s third annual i2iowa. Earlier this month, the Columbus, Ohio-based venture capital firm announced a $250 million fund that will be used to fund roughly 30 companies across the Midwest. Drive Capital’s website lists technology, tech-enabled services, health care and consumer…
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Drive Capital announces $250M fund focused on Midwest investments
Growing up, Chris Olsen didn’t plan on staying in his hometown of Cincinnati. “It’s kind of an unlikely turn of events that we ended up here,” Olsen told Silicon Prairie News …