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SunDown RunDown Brings Events and Workshops to New Albany Business Incubator

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New Albany, OH (PRWEB) February 13, 2014

The City of New Albany’s business incubator, Inc@8000, and New Albany based SunDown RunDown Group are collaborating to create new workshops, showcase events, and expand the New Albany Chapter of SunDown RunDown’s successful evening business idea pitch series to help attract and retain new ventures, connect entrepreneurs, and engage the community.

“It is exciting to begin working with Inc@8000 and New Albany to help entrepreneurs build their businesses and see them grow.” – Paul Proffitt, Founder

SunDown RunDown will be creating a series of monthly workshops, called Lunch & Launch, focused on relevant business issues facing startups and small businesses. Guest speakers from local industry and higher education will be sharing their most recent research and findings. Topics will range from finance and marketing to ideation and customer discovery. These workshops will occur during lunch and provide a great opportunity for professional development and networking.

SunDown RunDown will also host a quarterly open house / venture showcase at Inc@8000 to engage the community and show the talents of local entrepreneurs working to turn their idea into a reality. It will be a celebration of the hard work and innovation exhibited often in this entrepreneurial community.

SundownRundown was formed in March 2013 as a monthly event series designed to provide a venue for central Ohio entrepreneurs to pitch their business ideas to investors, mentors, and talent. Since then, the company has expanded to independent chapters in Akron and Mansfield Ohio; launched the Venture Resources Network to allow entrepreneurs to share and trade their skills or develop business relationships so that entrepreneurs can assist each other; and is in the process of raising a small venture capital fund for early stage ventures.

New Albany, Ohio, is a master planned community of 8,000 residents located fifteen miles northeast of Columbus, Ohio’s capital city, and ten miles from the Port Columbus International Airport. New Albany’s pastoral setting, timeless architecture, world-class amenities and attention to detail offer an exceptional quality of life for its residents. New Albany is also home to one of the largest master planned international business parks in the Midwest, featuring dual feed electric power and fiber optic capabilities for companies of all sizes.

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If you would like more information about the Lunch & Launch workshops, please contact Paul Proffitt at info(at)sundownrundown(dot)org.







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RIDING LONDONS NEW TECH WAVE: PORTLAND, OREGON-BASED OPAL LABS BRINGS DIGITAL BRAINSTORMING TO THE U.K., SECURES EIS STATUS FOR INVESTORS

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London (PRWEB UK) 30 May 2013

London is living through the most optimistic start-up party in a decade and the world’s entrepreneurs are taking note. One of Portland, Ore.’s most promising start-up starlets Opal Labs (“Opal”) has set up shop in London’s growing Tech City to service U.K. customers, such as Arup and BP, and fuel its growth with U.K. investment.

Opal Labs is one of many forward-thinking tech disruptors that consider London crucial to its success – and its U.K. office is the first step to becoming a global business. The company plans to attract U.K.-based investors through the government’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS).

“London certainly has the wind in its sales at the moment, you can just feel it. It’s pushing the envelope in everything from product design, to service innovation and marketing,” said Opal Labs’ managing director and co-founder Matt Oxley. “There is so much merit being in this city, at a time like this, working with some of the most innovative companies in the world.”

Opal Labs offers social business software enabling teams to easily collaborate around ideas, problem solve and unlock innovation potential across the organisation. The company has been busy helping U.K.-headquartered enterprises such as BP and Arup tap into their company’s next “big idea” using its flagship application Opal Brainstorms. The intuitive social enterprise application is designed to shape the ideas that can have the most impact on an organisation.

“The challenge to us was could we get a mechanism that would allow the whole of Arup – 11,000 employees – to talk to each other, particularly at the beginning of projects,” said Tristram Carfrae, RDI, group board director, fellow and chair at Arup. “So we worked with Opal to create the ideal virtual brainstorming tool.”

Opal Labs developed its Opal Brainstorms application with significant insights from the Arup team– most famous for its ground-breaking work on the Sydney Opera House, Gherkin and the Beijing Olympics “Water Cube.” To develop an application powerful enough for Arup’s team of 11,000 world-class innovators, Opal’s software experts opened up shop in London and worked intimately with users to create a business application that solves a real-world problem – allowing an entire organisation to share and shape their ideas. Arup produced this video to document its journey working with Opal to bring Opal Brainstorms to market.

“We have been extremely privileged to work with some of the most innovative companies in the world including NIKE, INTEL and now, Arup. What we have learnt along the way is that organisational creativity is a critical differentiator,” said Oxley. “Creative ideas can come from anywhere within an organisation and have the power to completely transform a project or entire business – like the idea of a bubble structure on the Beijing Water Cube or using a waffle iron to make Nike’s first running shoe sole. Our job at Opal is to help organisations find and shape these ideas so they can make a real impact out in the world.”

The London team is also proud to be associated with a breakthrough collaboration between NASA, USAID, Department of State, and NIKE called LAUNCH – which is leading the way in systems innovation. Meanwhile, energy giant BP is using Opal Brainstorms to enable communication and collaboration around the globe and is particularly interested in the power of social enterprise tech to improve the way their teams problem-solve between offices.

Back in the U.S., Opal Labs has recently been named to the Portland 100 – an elite list of start-ups expected to reach $ 100 million USD in revenue or $ 100 million USD in enterprise value over the next five years. The Portland Development Commission and successful software entrepreneur, Angel investor and Portland 100 board member, Nitin Khanna, selected Opal as one of the Portland 100 participants.

“We are committed to further expand our business in London, and create the blueprint for how we build a global brand,” said Opal Labs’ president of North America Steve Giannini. “The traction that we have made to date is quite remarkable, and the team in London has been instrumental in contributing to those achievements.”

“We aim to continue the momentum we’ve got in the U.S. here in London and are actively seeking the right investment partners who share our vision to fuel Opal’s rapid growth,” said Oxley.

Especially attractive to U.K.-based investors is Opal’s recent acceptance into the Enterprise Investment Scheme, a government initiative designed to encourage investment in London’s most promising start-ups through tax incentives.

The Opal Labs London office is located at 44 Emerald Street and can be reached at london(at)workwithopal(dot)com.

About Opal Labs

Opal Labs is leading the movement to fundamentally change the way the world does business. Opal’s social enterprise technology helps organisations unlock their innovation potential by enabling the ability to share, shape and ship ideas. Opal Labs is working with global innovators like Arup, Method and BP to deploy a powerful ecosystem of apps such as its flagship Opal Brainstorms – designed to harness the power of ideas to solve the biggest problems facing businesses, and the world, today. Visit http://www.workwithopal.com.

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Elliott Broidy Brings a Voice to Homeless Youth by Scoring a Vancouver Screening for Critically Acclaimed Film Sugar

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Los Angeles, California (PRWEB) September 26, 2013

Elliott Broidy has made further inroads to bring youth homelessness to the forefront in cities where the issue is most prominent. The movie ‘Sugar,’ for which he served as an executive producer alongside Director Rotimi Rainwater, will be screened during Homelessness Action Week in Vancouver from October 13th to 19th. Elliott Broidy, film financier, was instrumental in arranging the screening.

As an international city with a growing homeless population, Vancouver matches the profile of other cities where ‘Sugar’ has either been or will be screened. Such cities include Austin, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles.

The value of adding Vancouver’s Homelessness Action Week to further boost the movie’s profile was noted by Elliott Broidy, who commented the venue was ideally suited for the socially relevant film, according to a press release on September 23rd. Reel Causes, a British Columbia non-profit society, helped facilitate the screening. A slew of events throughout the week will complement the showing and also shed further light on homeless issues.

‘Sugar’ is an independent film that follows the struggles of a young woman living on the streets of Venice Beach, California. The small budget film has improbably enjoyed several successes to build mounting fanfare in advance of nationwide release in November.

These accolades have included the ‘Film Heals Award’ at the prestigious Manhattan Film Festival in July and an innovative funding campaign to feed homeless youth on the crowd funding site Indiegogo.

The momentum has been welcomed by Executive Producer Elliott Broidy, who stated that films such as ‘Sugar’ deserve the opportunity to succeed, as noted in a July 13th 2013 news release about the ‘Film Heals Award’.

To learn more about Homelessness Action Week 2013, please visit: http://northshorehomelessness.org/2013/09/11/homelessness-action-week-2013-october-14-19/.







Entrepreneur Visa Programme through E&S Consultancy (UK) brings business talent to the UK

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London, United Kingdom (PRWEB UK) 12 December 2013

The UK is seen as a very desirable destination for foreign entrepreneurs looking to come and set up their businesses here. With the conversion of the Tier 1 Highly Skilled Migrant Visa category into the Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa category, E&S Consultancy (UK) offers a 100% success rate guarantee on a no win no fee basis.

This visa route is very popular among highly skilled migrants and university graduates who have a business idea and the drive and finances to bring that idea to fruition.

The businesses that are set up are a boost to the UK economy and have the added benefit of providing numerous jobs into the market. With all the negative publicity immigration is receiving at the moment, this visa type is one that can be very beneficial to the UK.

“We believe the Tier 1 Entrepreneur Visa scheme is attracting a lot of new business talent into the British economy along with some very innovative technology,” said Elshad Huseynov, founder of E&S Consultancy (UK).

“We feel so strongly about the benefit these migrants will bring to the UK economy that we are one of the only visa consultancy firms that offers applicants our services on a no win no fee basis,” continued Elshad.

Entrepreneurs that want to take advantage of this visa category must invest £200,000 of their own funds or have £50,000 obtained from regulated venture capital firms or UK entrepreneurial seed funding competitions.

This will bring about a huge cash injection into the country and the British economy will feel an even bigger benefit when the number of entrepreneurs increases.

London is being touted as a new global tech hub with Tech City being set up to attract the best technology entrepreneurs into the country from around the world. With big companies on board like Google, Amazon and Cisco along with various universities also taking part like London Metropolitan University, London is set to become a magnet for foreign entrepreneurs.

In addition to all these benefits, another positive aspect of this updated visa category is that entrepreneurs that want to settle in the UK and obtain British citizenship will be able to do so after they have fulfilled certain requirements of the visa and shown that their business is providing an economic benefit and creating jobs.

“At E&S Consultancy (UK), we are very excited about the opportunities this visa category will bring to our clients and hope it will provide a much needed boost to the economy with highly skilled entrepreneurs bringing their businesses to the UK,” concluded Elshad.

About E&S Consultancy

E & S Consultancy (UK) Ltd provides UK immigration services and advice in all aspects of UK Immigration and UK visas. The areas it works in are investor visa, entrepreneur visa, tier 1 (general), investor visa extension, entrepreneur visa extension, permanent residence, indefinite leave to remain, British citizenship, naturalisation, HSMP extension, tier 1 (post study worker), tier 2 (general), tier 2 (intra company transfer), certificate of sponsorship, work permit, work permit extension, points based system, student visa, family visa, marriage visa, unmarried partner visa and EEA visa.

Besides all these services the company also offers a fast track immigration application service using the UK Border Agency’s premium services / one day or super premium services and obtain the visa in 1 working day.







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