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Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding comparison chart

Compare Crowdfunding platforms with this chart courtesy of Idea Crossing®.  Braintree professionals are ready to assist in crafting your campaign.

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Rock The Post

Rock the Post

Rock The Post is a crowdfunding website designed to fund small businesses, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and other project creators. It is the ideal tool for entrepreneurs to leverage networks, reach out to new contacts, and fill in the missing pieces of…

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Tech Sprout

TechSprout is a small grant program designed to help technology ideas move towards commercialization.  Grants of up to $6000 are availble to companies located in the 21 county region of Northeast Ohio.

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Appleseed Microfinance

Small capital. Bid impact.

The Appleseed Microfinance Loan Fund is designed to help provide small amounts of capital (from $1000-$35,000) to small business to create and/or retain jobs.

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Braintree 25th Anniversary

Braintree 25th anniversary

Braintree celebrates 25 years of assisting small business.

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Braintree

Braintree provides facility and consulting services to both new to market and existing small businesses.

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May 23, 2013

10:00 am - 11:00 am

Caffeinated Ideas is growing and expanding. Please join us at the Braintree Business Development Center as we provide an atmosphere and forum where entrepreneurs can test out ideas in front of a group of helpful professionals across an array of industries. These resource people will help refine the entrepreneur's idea and shape the business model in a way that saves the entrepreneur vital time and money in the normal trial and error learning process.

We will continue to entertain and explore your ideas no matter what stage the concept is in. Bring your ideas and let us help you explore how to bring your to market. Our goal is to develop more of your ideas into marketable products. Our goal is to be informal and flexible. Our
desire is to help grow the business community locally and organically through group interaction and collaboration and of course drink coffee...

We will meet at Braintree

201 E 5th Street, Mansfield, OH

 

Meet Our Staff
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CEO and Director Of Business Assistance

bob_cohenBob Cohen has served as CEO and Director Of Business Assistance since March of 2007. In this role, he serves as a resource person for technology entrepreneurs in a multi-county area of north east Ohio as part of Ohio's Third Frontier-funded TechLift Program. He served as Braintree's Executive Director from July of 2004 until March of 2007.  Previous to accepting the position at Braintree, he spent ten years working as regional manager for a Washington-based international business development agency and one year as operations manager for a Columbus-based micro-enterprise program.  Cohen, who has lived in the Mansfield area since 1988, has served as an adjunct faculty member of North Central State College and Ashland University, and is currently on the faculty of The Ohio State University Mansfield, and OSU's Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster.

Bob has a Ph.D in Higher Education from Ohio University, an M.A. from The Ohio State University, an MBA from Franklin University, and a B.A. from the University of Akron.  He is a licensed insurance agent, and a Certified Business Advisor (CBA).  His entrepreneurial background is in the insurance and broadcasting industries.  In his spare time he enjoys traveling and has been to all fifty states, all ten Canadian provinces and a total of 32 countries.

 
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Director of Operations

leach_bobBob Leach joined Braintree in April 2007 as coordinator of all activities of the Mansfield/Richland Incubator program, and also as director of the Northern Ohio IT Association.  Previously he spent 11 years as the Facility Manager and Systems Administrator for an Optical Disk and Video Duplication facility in Grove City, OH. Prior to that, Bob spent ten years in management for a large Home Center retailer and four years in the US Navy.

Bob is a Graduate of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and served on board the commissioning crew of the USS Georgia SSBN 729.  Bob's entrepreneurial experience comes from several companies in the construction industry.

 
Barrett Thomas Print E-mail

Microfinance Administrator

barrett_thomas_Barrett Thomas joined Braintree in May of 2009.  As the Microfinance Administrator, Barrett is responsible for the Appleseed Microfinance Loan Fund and the Braintree Microgrant program (coming in 2012). Barrett comes to Braintree with three years of micro-lending and program development experience gained in both domestic and international settings. He has also previously served as the Specialist for Information Management at the American Red Cross of Greater Columbus. Barrett acquired a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Systems at Taylor University and is currently finishing his Masters in Business Administration from Taylor University. He is a long-time Ohio resident and currently resides with his wife and daughter in Mansfield.

 
Terrie Bonfiglio Print E-mail

Manager-in-Residence

terrie bonfiglio headshotAs a Manager-in-Residence, Terrie Bonfiglio provides strategic development contract services for Braintree Development tenants.

With demonstrated success in the fields of veterinary pharmaceuticals, polymers, finance, retail and transportation, Terrie strategizes supply chain development from many vantage points.

She is a sought after speaker in the use of social media planning for manufacturers and small businesses, integrating web and mobile applications with traditional marketing resources to achieve desired outcomes.

Terrie resides in Ashland, OH and enjoys antiquing and gardening.

 



 
 
 

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