DAYTON STARTUP WEEK HIGHLIGHTS:
Monday, 8 a.m.: Kick0ff at Basecamp
Tuesday, 9 a.m.: “The Power of Collaboration” panel
Wednesday, 1 p.m.: “Social Media Masters: Secrets to Sensational Content” session
Thursday, 3 p.m.: Link Bicycle Tour of Dayton
Friday, 1 p.m.: “Some Hoppy Guys Talking about Beer” session
For more information, go to dayton.startupweek.co
Nucleus CoShare, a popular communal workspace for entrepreneurs, announced a new initiative that aims to bring the startup community together in Dayton.
Nucleus and The Entrepreneurs Center (TEC) are partnering in a new venture to help create an “entrepreneurial ecosystem” in the Miami Valley. They want to bring resources together to help entrepreneurs more easily navigate the Dayton business community.
“The vision of the new Nucleus is to serve as a service-focused, welcoming and comprehensive point of access for all things entrepreneurial in the greater Dayton region,” said Lauren White, a Nucleus collaborative partner.
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The initiative will focus on four main services:
• They will provide cosharing workspaces, dedicated desks and private office space.
• The venture attempts to provide business development through “structured and informal acceleration, incubation, mentoring and funding opportunities.”
• Nucleus will offer business programming like workshops, meetups and experiential internship programs.
• They will offer marketing, branding and messaging support to startups.
“Nucleus will be partnering and collaborating with as many additional local organizations as possible in order to optimize the scope, diversity and relevance of our service-based community initiatives,” said Scott Koorndyk, Nucleus collaborative partner and president of TEC.
In August, Nucelus CoShare told the Dayton Daily News that they are set to open a new coshare workspace near Wright State University.
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The new office, located across from Wright State University, will be at 3040 Presidential Drive. It is expected to be up-and-running by the end of the year if all goes as planned. It was the space where the presidential debate office was located before Wright State University pulled out of hosting the event.
Lauren White and Daved Levitan — members of the Nucleus leadership team — sat down with the Dayton Daily News to share details about the future of the entrepreneurial scene in the Miami Valley. They said this new location is a push toward uniting the community for a common goal — creating a “hub” of startup activity in the region.
This week, the community comes together to host the first Dayton Startup Week.
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Dayton Startup Week is a five-day event that aims to help entrepreneurs find connections and grow their businesses in the Miami Valley. About 2,600 attendees are expected throughout the week, with more than 70 events planned.
“We tend to cling onto the past, instead of building on the future,” said Jacob Crawford, a web architect for creative agency startup Virtuojo. “But we can be the startup hub of the Midwest. Why not Dayton?”
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