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The Southern West Virginia Rural Jobs Accelerator targets the nine (9) southernmost counties of West Virginia – Fayette, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Raleigh, Summers, Logan, Mingo and Wyoming. It is a partnership of five key organizations that have existing strengths and capabilities to assist businesses and to accelerate success: Marshall University Research Corporation, Robert C. Byrd Institute […]
Walhonde Tools, Inc. manufactures and markets patented tube and pipe alignment tools to heavy industrial construction projects. The company produces and markets 10 patented precision tube and pipe fitting tools for the power, pulp & paper, petro-chemical, food and drug processing and shipbuilding and repair industries worldwide. Based in South Charleston, W.Va., Walhonde is one […]
The West Virginia Capital Access Program (WVCAP) received $13.1 million through State Small Business Credit Initiative funding. The funds provide a new source of capital to West Virginia businesses. The program rolled out in January 2012 and has already approved over $6.4 million to West Virginia businesses! The average amount invested or lent to these […]
Keynote Speaker, NASA Astronaut Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger Leaders from around the state and region attended TechConnect West Virginia’s first Women In Technology: A Formula for Success conference, held October 18-19 at Oglebay Resort & Conference Center in Wheeling. The event highlighted the challenges and opportunities for women in the STEM fields and featured the stories of […]
Make plans to attend the first TransTech Energy Business Development Conference, which will be held Nov. 14-16, 2012 at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown. The conference is dedicated to identifying and promoting investment in start-up TransTech Energy (TTE) companies and commercializable projects that hold promise to create jobs, to provide opportunities for advanced manufacturing, […]
Ninety-seven percent of internet users look online for local products and services, yet 58% of small businesses don’t have a website — and as a small business yourself, you probably know a few. If you know a business who isn’t online, invite them to the web today — it only takes 30 seconds using our […]
Several companies from throughout West Virginia are getting business planning and start-up assistance thanks to TechConnect West Virginia’s new StartUp West Virginia Venture program. The assistance is being provided by The INNOVA Commercialization Group, which is providing its suite of commercialization services to selected small businesses and entrepreneurs. “The StartUp West Virginia Venture program is […]
“Astronaut Dorthy Metcalf-Lindenburger has a fascinating and inspirational story to tell,” said Anne Barth, Executive Director of TechConnectWV. “A geologist and educator by trade, her passion to become an astronaut led to her selection as a NASA Mission Specialist in 2004. After years of extensive technical and physical training, she accompanied the STS-131 Discovery Space […]
TechConnectWV and RCBI announced the first class of StartUp WV Manufacturing on March 5, 2012. Below is a spotlight on another of these innovative and entrepreneurial businesses – Craft Totes by Bell. Based in Dunbar, West Virginia, Craft-Totes by Bell designs and produces a specialized line of industry-specific tool carriers. The company is working to […]
Policies to grow the bioscience industry – both in West Virginia and nationally – were the focus of a panel discussion during the WV Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Summit on August 30. TechConnectWV’s Anne Barth joined Dr. Stephen Kopp, President of Marshall University, Ross DeVol, Chief Research Officer at the Milken Institute, and Bryan […]