Another Ohio-based entrepreneur training program: JumpStart sponsored a 54-hour event for people wanting to start a high tech business.

I recently shared how I have been reading entrepreneur blogs and how encouraged I have been reading about the programs and initiatives taking place.

Well, here is another example: JumpStart, which is a Northeast Ohio-based program that “accelerates the progress of high potential, early-stage businesses,” hosted a sold-out entrepreneur training weekend in Cleveland. Similar events have been hosted, according to JumpStart, in Boston, Paris and Israel, but Cleveland had the highest number of sponsors. “Who knew, six years ago” the blogger writes, “we’d be setting the bar for the world in entrepreneurial energy.”

There are lots of great entrepreneur blogs and resources on the Internet. One of my early New Year’s Resolutions is to read more of them.

While looking at some blog posts recently, I found out about an interesting entrepreneur training program taking place right here in Ohio. In this program, the Youngstown Business Incubator and Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration are partnering to begin an internship program in Youngstown, to help each participant become a successful entrepreneur.

“Ohio's economy is built upon a legacy of strength in manufacturing and innovative thinking.” Ohio is an excellent home for the successful entrepreneur!

According to IBMag.com, “Ohio ranks best in the Midwest and among the top ten states in the nation in SITE Selection's annual state business climate analysis.” Reasons for Ohio’s success include:

• A supportive business environment
• An educated, talented work force
• Fewer turnovers than the national average
• Fabulous opportunities to collaborate with colleges and universities
• Business-friendly tax reform and low state taxes for companies making capital investments

It isn’t surprising, then, that Ohio is the home to 60 Fortune 1000 businesses.

The receivables factoring industry encourages the development of entrepreneurship: free market at its finest.

I love the enthusiasm of newer business owners. They have a passion for their work, they love what they do, and it shows. Thanks to asset based lending, these energetic and creative people can get the business financing help they need to prosper and make a difference in the world.