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Congratulations to all LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Awards 2008 Entries, and the Grand Prize Winner from the University of Akron
John Carroll University hosted the Second Annual LaunchTown Entrepreneurship Awards which took place April 7, 2008 @ 4PM. 6 teams of students from some of Northeast Ohio's finest universities and colleges presented their ideas for a new business or product.
Grand Prize Winning Entry
PureBalance Polymeric Solutions from the University of Akron

PureBalance Polymeric Solutions is an exciting new venture that will utilize “innovative polymer technology” to develop a variety of products for multi-billion dollar markets including healthcare and veterinary medicine. Our mission is to develop efficient therapeutic delivery systems using novel patented polymers to solve everyday healthcare needs. PureBalance’s innovative drug delivery systems will provide highly efficient and cost-effective treatment methods for alleviating a variety of medical conditions to a highly diverse end consumer base. While development of efficient therapeutic delivery systems is PureBalance’s mission, an extremely important objective is to significantly increase research and development, employment, and revenue in Northeast Ohio. PureBalance intends to use a highly successful four-prong business strategy with each prong representative of a dynamic relationship between PureBalance and Northeast Ohio’s medical community, investors, government, and educational institutions. |
Keynote Address by John Osher, Speakers Eileen Saffran and Jake Kloberdanz

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John Osher, successful Ohio entrepreneur and philantrhopist, will be here in Northeast Ohio at John Carroll University on April 7, 2008 to deliver a keynote address to LaunchTown award winners and onlookers.
When: April 7, 2008
Where: John Carroll |
John Osher is a “serial entrepreneur” who has developed literally hundreds of consumer products, from energy saving devices to baby products, toys and candy, and household appliances. He has built and sold several successful businesses to major companies and is most popularly known as the guy who brought the “five dollar electric toothbrush” to the world. Launched as the SpinBrush, in only fifteen months, it became the top selling toothbrush in the U.S. He started Dr John’s toothbrush company in 1999 and sold the venture to Procter and Gamble only two years later at a record-breaking multiple for the industry. Osher has over fifty patents and has developed several other consumer products which he has ultimately sold to Fortune 500 companies.
Read more about John Osher
Two other speakers at this years event will bring their entrepreneurial succes story and message to Northeast Ohio's eager young minds. Eileen Saffran, Executive Director of The Gathering Place, will be speaking along with Jake Kloberdanz, CEO of Hope Wine.
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Your Winning Idea Could Be Worth Thousands!
This year's LaunchTown winner will receive $5,000 cash, and $10,000+ in donated professional services designed to brand, market, fund, and launch your dream into reality.
Finalists who are runners-up will receive $1,000 cash.
Awards Ceremony
April 7, 2008 @ 4PM
John Carroll University
Participating Schools
- Ashland University
- Baldwin Wallace
- Case Western University
- Cleveland State University
- John Carroll University
- Kent State University
- University of Akron |
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