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Federal Grant Workshops for Tech Entrepreneurs

Laura Corder
Mike Switzer/SC Public Radio

If there is any group of entrepreneurs that is not only hungry for capital but also having a hard time finding some, it’s early-stage start-ups.  If you’re one of these, you won’t want to change your radio dial right now because our next guest is going to tell us about a free, new program her state agency recently launched to help these companies find federal grant money.

Mike Switzer interviews Laura Corder, managing director of the Office of Innovation at the South Carolina Department of Commercein Columbia. The 3Phase program.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.