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Latitude Live! From 43North Finals
This week on the podcast we head back to the 43North Finals where we hosted a live edition of Latitude with the 2018 follow-on funding winners Femi Secrets and Kangarootime.
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Latitude Episode 77: Mapping The Quest To Build The Fort
Host Nate Benson talks to Chris about founding Mapquest, why he’s called “The Startup Whisperer,” building forts and being a judge at the 43North Finals.
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Latitude Episode 76: And the (2018) million dollar winner is….
It’s another year and another 43North final is in the books. This week on the podcast we talk with Sparkcharge founder Josh Aviv about founding his startup in Syracuse, and why Buffalo is where he wants to grow is EV powering station startup.
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NYS Announces $1 Million Grand Prize Winner of 43North
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced SparkCharge as the $1 million grand prize winner of the fifth annual 43North competition.
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Latitude Episode 75: The Producer
This week on the podcast we talk to the woman that makes it happen, Colleen Heidinger. Colleen has a fascinating journey to and from Buffalo that includes stints at Babson, American Idol, Dreamworks and now 43North.
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Latitude Episode 74: 2nd Annual 43North Finalists Draft Special
This week on the podcast we’re talking about the 2018 43North Finalists!!! Host Nate Benson is joined by 43North’s Lauren Baynes where they break down all the startups competing in the 43North Finals on October 3 at Shea’s Performing Arts Center.
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Empire State Development Announces Finalists for 5th Annual 43North Competition
Empire State Development (ESD) today announced the 18 finalists of this year’s 43North competition. The $5 million startup competition, which is supported by the Governor’s Buffalo Billion initiative, is designed to encourage entrepreneurs with high growth potential to compete for enterprise funding in Western New York.
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Latitude Episode 73: Buffalo Wins The (Oxford) Pennant!
This week on the podcast, host Nate Benson talks to Oxford Pennant co-founder Dave Horesh about his love of pennants, starting a pennant company, the challenges of starting a felt based business, winning the Ignite Buffalo grant and aiming to be the next New Era Cap.
Founder Friday: Derrick Parson, GRASPIE
Today, GRASPIE is participating in Launch NY and working with their first enterprise client of over 2,000 employees. They plan to bring on several additional enterprise companies over the next few years as well as expand the team here in Buffalo
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Latitude Episode 72: Start It Up, Over The Weekend
You may have wanted to get involved with the Buffalo startup scene but had no idea how. Buffalo Startup Weekend 2018 is the perfect way to get involved.
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Latitude Episode 71: Leadership With Shelley Drake
Our guest on this episode of Latitude is Shelley Drake, Western New York regional president at M&T Bank and President of the M&T Charitable Foundation.
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Latitude Episode 70: Engineer For Hire
In this episode we talk to Dan about helping other startups solve their engineering problems, being a young startup founder and why he chose the path of entrepreneurship in Buffalo when he could have left.