Rochester Entrepreneurs Resource

January 03, 2007

Kurt Schweitzer wins SWPC Business Plan Contest

For Immediate Release January 3, 2007 South Wedge, Rochester - Kurt Schweitzer of Urban Village Scooters has been chosen as the winner of the South Wedge Planning Committee's Business Plan Contest....

Thanks to SWPC

Thanks go to South Wedge Planning Committee for the generous use of the meeting room at 224 Mount Hope Ave. for Innovations Rochester's weekly meetings....

September 18, 2005

David Orange in the News

After much trying David has now found the way to get exposure for his AeroLight products. Here's a link to an article about his products in The D&C's Insider And now he will be on TV as well -- David...

Making Your own Job --[Greg Tellex]

The D&C has published another article about Greg Tellex and Empire Golf Getaways. It appeared on the front page of the business section in the September 16 edition. The article by Joy Davia tells how Greg turned his layoff from...

September 12, 2005

SculpTek Gets National Recognition

Member David Orange of SculpTek appeared in a recent issue of the Rochester Business Journal. His AeroLight lighted safety gear was chosen for a Nationwide Mock Disaster Drill. Go to for a link to the story (unfortunately you will have...

August 03, 2005

JIM MOE, InR Alumnus, Opens Cartridge Refilling Business

Cartridge World, the largest retailer of cartridge refilling,services in the world, has opened its newest franchise location in Brighton. The store at Brighton-Tops Plaza,1900 Clinton Avenue South has brought the unique cartridge refilling concept to consumers and businesses in Brighton...

August 02, 2005

Empire Golf Getaways gets State Recognition

Greg Tellex is CEO of Empire Golf Getaways -- Greg was an Early Member of Innovations Rochester- Greg writes of his success in Getting his proposal for the "I Love New York" Golf Program adopted by New York State. "I'd...

March 22, 2005

Simon EMBA/GRE Scholarships Available

The University of Rochester's Simon School of Business has partnered again with the Greater Rochester Enterprise to offer scholarships to the Executive MBA Program.

March 05, 2005

UR team refining camera-phone's heart

This Democrat & Chronicle Business Article describes the efforts of two University of Rochester researchers to develop what they believe is a breakthrough approach to imaging sensors. Their biggest challenge? Raising venture capital to penetrate an already crowded field....

February 11, 2005

Miller resigns HTR incubator post

The Rochester Business Journal is reporting that High Technology of Rochester Inc. program director Alana Miller has resigned from the organization.

January 27, 2005

Coming Soon to a Lab Near You

A Fairport High School student is named 'Junior Nobel' finalist in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. Bruce Brewington sounds like one talented kid. Read the article and see what the next generation is able to do!...

January 24, 2005

Model innovation "hot spot" for optics

This article says that the U.S. Council on Competitiveness, the Infotonics Technology Center Inc. and Greater Rochester Enterprise Inc. have named the Rochester, N.Y., region as a model innovation "hot spot" for optics. I have a hard time figuring out...

MSNBC - Buffalo a tough sell for women's startups

This article is mostly about women doing business in Buffalo, but it does expand to western New York, including this comment about Rochester: This area's women-owned businesses had total sales of $1.9 billion in 1997, working out to $105,090 per...

January 14, 2005

U of R Patents New 'Pure Light' Technology

University of Rochester researchers have patented a new class of optical materials that efficiently create "pure polarized light," which uses far less energy than conventional flat-panel displays to produce the same images. The new technology promises brighter displays, longer battery...

January 06, 2005

Rochester Most Entrepreneurial City in NY

According to Entrepreneur.com, Rochester ranks 25th in the list of Top 50 Entrepreneurial Cities in the nation. This makes it the most entrepreneurial in New York, ahead of Buffalo (at #33) and New York City (#46). The rankings are based...

January 03, 2005

Will HP Buy Kodak?

An interesting speculation discovered in this article on SFGate.com: "Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler, in a new study by the Cambridge, Mass., firm, makes a case for such cross-industry acquisitions as Hewlett-Packard Co. buying Eastman Kodak Co." The article is...

January 01, 2005

Rochester 2005 Growth Forecast

The Democrat & Chronicle is not terribly optimistic about Rochester's growth prospects for 2005, and they're not alone.

December 23, 2004

San Francisco Examiner to Create Rochester Examiner?

I was doing a search for Rochester patent news articles, and came across this one about billionaire Philip Anschutz trademarking the name "Examiner" for use here in Rochester, among other places. You may be familiar with the name of the...

December 18, 2004

Trillium Invests in E-chx Inc.

According to this article in the Democrat & Chronicle, Trillium Lakefront Partners III has made its first venture capital investment, in E-chx Inc. Although the investment amount was not disclosed, the article says that the fund was built to distribute...

December 17, 2004

RIPN Roster of Volunteers Survey

County Executive Maggie Brooks has asked RIPN to provide a list of people who would be interested and available to assist her team by providing input and guidance on various projects and/or initiatives. You can participate by filling out their...

Young Entrepreneurs Academy (YEA!)

Like the Monkees said, "Look out! Here comes tomorrow!" (The fact that I remember such things shows my age!) I just found out about the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, offered by the University of Rochester, which introduces middle and high school...

December 14, 2004

Firms intend to add staff

According to this article in the Rochester Business Journal, Rochester area businesses forecast job growth over the next three months. How about you? Are you planning to add employees? For that matter, do you have any employees to begin with?...

December 13, 2004

Center for Civic Entrepreneurship

This article in the Rochester Business Journal describes the Center for Civic Entrepreneurship which was announced today by Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks. Do you think they have a clue?...

Minimum Wage

Another article in the Democrat & Chronicle - State to raise minimum wage - has me wondering how this will affect local entrepreneurs. Do you view this as good news, or bad for business? Or do you see it as...

E-ZNet Folds

There was an article in yesterday's Democrat & Chronicle called E-ZNet's decline snares users that I hope everybody got a chance to read. (If not, follow the link.) It sounds like the E-ZNet fiasco was nearly as bad as when...