Building a customized entrepreneurial superhub

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Building an
entrepreneurial
Super-hub
Andrea Margida, TechGrit, President
Anthony Margida, Ph.D., TechGrit, CEO

Who We are
Architecting Ideas
We build entrepreneurial ecosystems through
customized design of entrepreneurial hubs and
accelerator programs.
Women-owned
TechGrit is a woman-owned technology
company based in Northeast Ohio, USA.
Envision & Implement
We create distinct customized
entrepreneurial ecosystems that
transform communities, corporations, and
educational organizations.
Transformative
By leveraging existing assets, minimizing
capital outlay, and utilizing local talent, we
transform entities into destinations for
collaboration and commerce.
Award-winning
We have a proven track
record of national acclaim.
Passion & Purpose
Led by entrepreneur co-founders,
Anthony and Andrea Margida, TechGrit is
the embodiment of the partners’ life
passion for innovation, collaboration and
building community.
.
TechGrit builds entrepreneurial ecosystems through customized
design of entrepreneurial hubs and accelerator programs.

What We
do
We Design Customized,
Successful, Sustainable &
Fundable Hubs
We Serve New and
Existing Entrepreneurial
Service Organizations
(ESOs)
• Incubation
• Accelerator programming
• Pre-incubation
• Customer discovery
• Community building
• Special services & partnerships
• Contests & special events

Building an Entrepreneurial Super-Hub
What is a super-hub?
4
Component Example
Startup business development Incubator, accelerator
Entrepreneurial Educational Bootcamps, customer discovery
Targeted partnerships SBDC, Women’s Network
Collaborative workspaces Open, engineered for “collisions,” café
Events and networking Contests, panels, hackathons, startup weekends
Pre-incubation Makerspace, co-working

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Building an Entrepreneurial Super-Hub
the tech grit approach
CREATE PARTNERSHIPS
FIND CHAMPIONS
ARTICULATE A VISION
EXECUTE
FIND FUNDING
COLLABORATE

Before
Business
Incubator
Akron’s Entrepreneurial Service Organization

ENTREPRENEURIA
L super-hub
Building an
Startup Business Development
Software
Guild
Programming
Boot Camp

ENTREPRENEURIA
L super-hub
Building an
Targeted Partnerships & Educational Programs
Software
Guild
Programming
Boot Camp

ENTREPRENEURIA
L super-hub
Building an
Collaborative Workspace, Events & Networking, Pre-incubation
Software
Guild
Programming
Boot Camp

ENTREPRENEURIA
L super-hub
Building an
The Complete Ecosystem
Software
Guild
Programming
Boot Camp

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The
Bit
factory
software
accelerato
r
Local focus was bioscience and polymers
Substantial growth in tech company startups
Emergence of accelerators
Client tech startups drawn away
The
“Before”
landscape

The
Bit
factory
software
accelerato
r
CHAMPIONS: Leaders of returning tech startup
VISION: Create a software accelerator
COLLABORATE: Learn from accelerator veterans
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL
• Modification of Silicon Valley model
• No new operating costs
• Foundation grant for buildout
• State seed funding
CAPITAL & OPERATIONS = NEAR $0
15 COMPANIES | $20M VALUE | <2 Yrs
solution

Software Guild
• New model for training software coders in 12 weeks
• Designed to address projected 1 M job gap
• Needed for our client’s region
• Through collaboration – a community champion
• Champion: teacher / innovator / leading edge software coder
• No startup experience
• Software Guild become a partner and a client.
• Hundreds of new programmers trained and placed.
• New tech companies attracted to region.
• “Best US Coding Boot Camp” – WSJ Feb. 2017

innovation center
• TechGrit-envisioned and planned community innovation hub
• “A place where anybody could make anything and build a business”
• Café, maker space, collaboration space, and pre-incubation
• Multiple public and private partners
• Local, state, and federal funding secured: $4,742,000

Spectrum Art Gallery
• University education / installations
• Resident artists showings
• Art-tech fusion
Avant Garden
• Studio co-working for extreme and tech artists
INCUBATING THE
ARTS

techgrit success
Metrics
Akron
18
50+Average number of companies served annually
$85.2Million in payroll
450New Jobs
$70.3Million in investment
$144.9Million in revenues
TechGrit won $10.4M in grants for
capital and operations

approac
h
to
successful
Super-Hub
Vision
A projection of your community’s talent,
strengths, and desires
Champions
Know a good idea when you see one
Partnerships
For sustainable, effective programs
Collaboration
Know what you want / Learn what you
can get

Contact Us:
Andrea Margida andrea@techgrit.email 330.206.0868
Anthony Margida anthony@techgrit.email 330.418.5942
@Tech_Grit

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