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BusinessLink: Bridging Innovation 2022
West Virginia has created an abundance of entrepreneurial resources throughout the state in the past several years. In early 2019, a group of entrepreneurial providers held a meeting to connect and identify opportunities for improvement in aiding entrepreneurs. The West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem effort started as a simple exercise in aligning efforts for better communications…
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Celebrating WV Export Success in 2021
As we celebrate the holidays and look forward to what 2022 will bring, we just want to take a moment to thank West Virginia’s exporters and celebrate some of the business successes of the last year. Investing In Virtual Thanks to the ubiquity of virtual meetings, traveling halfway around the world to visit a customer…
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West Virginia is the birthplace of petrochemicals
Did you know that a small plant in Clendenin, West Virginia is where the petrochemical industry began? Petrochemicals are chemicals made from petroleum and natural gas. To recognize the tremendous impact West Virginia and its citizens have had on the petrochemical industry as a whole, the American Chemical Society (ACS) honored Union Carbide’s foundation of…
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Oktana is happy to be home in West Virginia
Primarily located in Latin America, Oktana was drawn to West Virginia because of its sense of home. Oktana is a software developer within the information technology industry that provides custom app development. The company specializes in design, implementation, optimization, and integration to Salesforce, including Heroku and MuleSoft. In January of 2020, they opened their first…
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4 Tips to Help You Select Distributors and Grow Your Exports
Investing in a new market is expensive and resource intensive, which is why most exporters use distributors to sell their products internationally. Selecting a trustworthy distributor who can help generate the level of sales you envision can take some time, but it doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, the West Virginia Division of Economic…
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