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Ed Morrison · More good news from Youngstown
February 18th, 2009
More than advertising and logos, the good stories from Youngstown are redefining its trajectory.
From Jim Cossler:
So…I heard yesterday from some childhood friends I had lost touch with who are now living in Chicago, Houston and Phoenix.
And we probably heard, based on an eyeball estimate of my email in-box, from another 500 people from places like New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, San Jose and Denver. All thanks to National Public Radio nationally broadcasting a story yesterday morning to its 13 million listeners on the amazing software technology cluster being built by our organization in Youngstown, Ohio.
But, here’s what we’re most excited about.
We received countless numbers of emails from people who grew up in Western Pennsylvania or Northeastern Ohio, but who are now living in places across the country. They told us how thrilled they were to hear the story. They told us they wanted to learn more about what was going on. They told us that they wanted to visit with us the next time they came “home”.
That’s great, but we’re going to go one step further.
We’re going to be working very hard to get them all to move “home”.
You can listen to the story here.
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February 18th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Congrats on the NPR story! Always love it when NEO gets some love from the national press!
February 20th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Just validates the incubator model for tech cos., especially in smaller markets. There is tremendous value in having tech cos. physically located near each in areas where the required resources for growth are scarce.