With a boost from FlashStarts, 12 new companies join the Cleveland economy
Summary
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Optimism and sophistication pervaded Mondays "demo day" for FlashStarts, a downtown business accelerator that introduced 12 new companies to intrigue and applause. Those fledgling companies include remesh, makers of an online communication platform that the founders say can both sell consumer products and help attain world peace. Founded by a pair of Case Western Reserve University fraternity brothers, Mango aims to help American colleges recruit international students with social media and email campaigns shaped for the home country. Wang and former classmate Eric Vennaro see a growing market as colleges seek to overcome admission droughts with foreign students who pay full tuition. The audience met a diverse muster of entrepreneurs; men and women, college students and seasoned professionals, doctors, video gamers and television producers.