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Monday, January 31, 2011

Beachwood Business Incubator: What Next?

Runner Banks on Common Gym Dilemma

Bruce Sherman, a daily runner for 33 years, invented the GymValet

Some runners say that exercise helps them think, clear their heads, generate ideas. And this certainly seems to have proven true with one local inventor — a man who has not missed a daily run in 33 years, and who averages 6 to 7 miles a day. Bruce Sherman is 57 years old and invented the GymValet, a fairly simple but ingenious device that holds a bottle of spray cleaner and a towel and can be secured to treadmills and other gym equipment. Sherman was the director of the Mandel Jewish Community Center when he thought to rig a cup with a hook to the equipment. He and the staff of the JCC’s fitness center asked patrons to clean equipment after use, but spray bottles and towels littered windowsills and corners of the gym, and patrons rarely …

Linda

9:39 am on Monday, January 31, 2011

The Gym Valet is a wonderful product every gym needs several of them!   more ›

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Beachwood Business Incubator: What Next?

Hydroponics Developer Moves On

Sure to Grow lives up to its name in five years at business incubator*

Beachwood's Small Business Development Center was launched to foster growth in new local businesses by providing offices and infrastructure to entrepreneurs. In late 2010, however, the city announced that budget constraints would force the city to close the business incubator's* doors. In this series, we’ll feature businesses that used the center and find out what comes next for the entrepreneurs. When local businessman Eric Senders was approached by DuPont about developing a product using a new fiber their scientists had created, he did not realize the boon that was coming for the hydroponic agriculture industry. But he did think he could do something with the fluffy white foam, so in 2005 he acquired the raw patent and went to work in …

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