Entrepreneurship: Growing Companies

Local businesses who want a big bang on the Internet look to Blue Kaboom.

513-542-5200
118 William Howard Taft Rd. Suite b1
Cincinnati, OH 45219

For young adults looking for sports and fun, Cincinnati Sports Leagues offers plenty. The ball got rolling in the summer of 2001; today, about 30,000 Cincinnatians attend a CSL event each year.

513-533-9FUN
P.O. Box 8421
Cincinnati, OH 45208

Vine Street Interactive web firm moves from basement to Gateway Quarter

(513) 322-5073
1150 Vine Street #15
Cincinnati, OH 45202

The Wolf Group is a one-of-a-kind business that started out in the founder and president’s home in the late 1980s. Today the business is home to a 17,000 sq. ft. facility in Blue Ash where dozens of trained palates taste, as well as touch, smell and test a host of food, personal care and other products for companies who want to make them better.

(513) 891-9100
10860 Kenwood Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45241

Beacon Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine was founded in 1996 by a team of doctors looking to provide top-notch, sports-related medical care. Today, the Sharonville-based company has offices also in Cincinnati and Batesville, Ind., and is planning a major expansion and renovation project for late 2009.

513-354-3700
500 E-Business Way
Sharonville, OH 45241

In only a few short years Cincy Chic grew from an online women’s lifestyle publication to a way of life for a collection of Cincinnati's most hip, professional women.

(513) 721-2445
116-118 E. 13th St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202

London Computer Systems’ responsive solution to a property management problem has turned it into a multi-million dollar, high growth business.

513-583-1482
1007 Cottonwood Dr.
Loveland, OH 45140

Mindbox Studios started in 2005 as a web design company created to fund other web-based business projects of founder and CEO, Joshua Johnson and his creative, entrepreneurial partners.

(513) 729-7003
2645 Erie Ave. Ste 41
Cincinnati, Ohio 45208

Girlfriendolgy gives new meaning to the phrase "tech support" with a web site based on celebrating female friendships

3780 Aylesboro Avenue
Cincinnati, OH,

Reading resident Jeff Spelman had the idea to  create a fun card game that would help his sons improve their math skills. After spending 20 years working in sports and media, Spelman naturally incorporated sports into Quick Count, a strategic football themed card game for two players. 

513-259-8514
425 Walnut Street Suite 2112
Cincinnati, OH 45202

A company started in Cincinnati in 1896, Hill and Griffith, started a 21st century company to handle the task of getting products from one place to another securely and on time.  HG Logistics, started in 2006, expects revenue to nearly double this year and is planning to expand employment.

1-800-543-0425
1085 Summer Street
Cincinnati, OH 45204

Kristin McLane helped start CIMx 13 years ago, and today is the majority shareholder, making the firm one of the few woman-owned businesses in the aerospace and defense sector.  The company's manufacturing software is used by major defense contractors, including GE, Boeing and Honeywell.

513-248-7700
1001 Ford Circle
Milford, Ohio 45150

NuVo Technologies has a long history of innovation in music, from instruments to amplifiers.  NuVo's niche is custom, high-end digital sound distributed throughout the home and it's continued a tradition of innovation through its engineering and manufacturing of multi-room audio systems.

866-796-4904
3015 Kustom Drive
Hebron, Ky. 41048

Freeman Schwabe is an advanced manufacturing firm with its roots planted firmly in the Cincinnati machine-making tradition.  With a history dating to the 19th century, the company was purchased in a management-led buyout in 2006 and since then, its growth has been exponential. 

513-947-2888
4064 Clough Woods Drive
Batavia, Ohio 45103

Seeing a void in online training products specifically designed for schools, Brian Taylor and partner Greg Estep, with backgrounds in online publishing and information technology, started Scenario Learning and its SafeSchools suite of online training courses in 2001. The firm has grown to serve 1,500 districts in all 50 states and internationally and employment has grown to 12 people.

1-800-434-0154
7434 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45236