Latest Fall Episode: Cleveland, OH
Monday, September 19th, 2011Entrepreneurs at Work
Cleveland, Ohio, is a city that was made by entrepreneurs. John D. Rockefeller started Standard Oil there. The General Electric Company built one of the nation’s first industrial parks in Cleveland. But for a few decades, that is not what it has been known for.
Instead, thanks to the polluted Cuyahoga River catching on fire back in 1969, it has been known as “the mistake on the lake,” a reminder that it had been a city that had become a shell of its former manufacturing-era glorious self. However, thanks in large part to its dirt-cheap rents, Cleveland is being embraced by a new generation of entrepreneurs as a place to put their dreams into motion. ………………………………………………………………….
This is a now a city of entrepreneurship in a range of incarnations … in the classic business sense, yes. But Cleveland’s also a city of people turning their entrepreneurial sense on the place around them– in their childrens’ education, in the environment, even in beer. This is an hour of entrepreneurial stories, taking a look at that go-get-’em-and-seize-your-dreams energy in a variety of forms.
To hear the full rundown of the many different ways the community that “rocks” is rocking even more, click on Cleveland, OH: Entrepreneurs at Work.
