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Old 08-30-2011, 10:01 AM
 
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Matt, here is an example of a Columbus founded company doing extremely well.

Company: Mission Essential Personnel
Industry: Government services, linguistics, intelligence
Founded: 2004
Revenue in 2007: $43 million
Revenue in 2010: $628.6 million
Revenue increase: +1,356%
Has added 5,100 employees in that same time frame for a total of 7,350.
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Old 08-30-2011, 10:42 AM
 
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Matt, here is an example of a Columbus founded company doing extremely well.

Company: Mission Essential Personnel
Industry: Government services, linguistics, intelligence
Founded: 2004
Revenue in 2007: $43 million
Revenue in 2010: $628.6 million
Revenue increase: +1,356%
Has added 5,100 employees in that same time frame for a total of 7,350.


A government job?
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Old 08-30-2011, 12:35 PM
 
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25 other companies doing well. These are all startups founded or based in Columbus.

Company: Expesite
Industry: Software
Founded: 1999
Growth last 3 years: 3%
2010 Revenue: $5.4 million

Live Technologies
Industry: Business products/services
Founded: 1984
Growth last 3 years: 15%
2010 Revenue: $10.5 million

Unicon International
Industry: IT services
Founded: 1990
Growth last 3 years: 15%
2010 Revenue: $24.9 million

Shift Global
Industry: Advertising/marketing
Founded: 2003
Growth last 3 years: 25%
2010 Revenue: $3 million

Bravo Brio Restaurant Group
Industry: Food and Beverage
Founded: 1987
Growth last 3 years: 29%
2010 Revenue: $343 million

Charley's Grilled Subs
Industry: Food and Beverage
Founded: 1986
Growth last 3 years: 31%
2010 Revenue: $35.2 million

CTL Engineering
Industry: Engineering
Founded: 1927
Growth last 3 years: 36%
2010 Revenue: $28.5 million

Portfolio Creative
Industry: Human Resources
Founded: 2005
Growth last 3 years: 45%
2010 Revenue: $5.5 million

Questline
Industry: Advertising/marketing
Founded: 1991
Growth last 3 years: 50%
2010 Revenue: $3.1 million

Momentum Performance Materials Holdings
Industry: Manufacturing
Founded: 2005
Growth last 3 years: 50%
2010 Revenue: $3.8 billion

Residential Finance
Industry: Financial services
Founded: 1997
Growth last 3 years: 59%
2010 Revenue: $28.6 million

AC Lens
Industry: Retail
Founded: 1996
Growth last 3 years: 64%
2010 Revenue: $29 million

Quantum Health
Industry: Health
Founded: 1999
Growth last 3 years: 71%
2010 Revenue: $13 million

Ohio Power Tool
Industry: Business products and services
Founded: 1983
Growth last 3 years: 73%
2010 Revenue: $3.8 million

Luffman, Heck and Associates
Industry: Consumer products and services
Founded: 2003
Growth last 3 years: 93%
2010 Revenue: $3.1 million

Lancaster Pollard
Industry: Financial services
Founded: 1988
Growth last 3 years: 102%
2010 Revenue: $48.2 million

Advanced Engineering Consultants
Industry: Engineering
Founded: 1998
Growth last 3 years: 137%
2010 Revenue: $3.5 million

Navigator Management Partners
Industry: Business products and services
Founded: 2001
Growth last 3 years: 152%
2010 Revenue: $14.1 million

Baseball Rampage
Industry: Retail
Founded: 2002
Growth last 3 years: 180%
2010 Revenue: $4.8 million

Zipline Logistics
Industry: Logistics and Transportation
Founded: 2007
Growth last 3 years: 220%
2010 Revenue: $4.4 million

AXIA Consulting
Industry: IT Services
Founded: 2005
Growth last 3 years: 252%
2010 Revenue: $9.6 million

Astor and Black Custom Clothiers
Industry: Retail
Founded: 2004
Growth last 3 years: 293%
2010 Revenue: $20.6 million

The Whitestone Group
Industry: Security
Founded: 2000
Growth last 3 years: 464%
2010 Revenue: $14.4 million

CallCopy
Industry: Software
Founded: 2004
Growth last 3 years: 831%
2010 Revenue: $7.4 million

Znode
Industry: Software
Founded: 2007
Growth last 3 years: 1,430%
2010 Revenue: $2.5 million

Notice how many industries are represented. It's not all just retail and government.

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Old 08-30-2011, 12:36 PM
 
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A government job?
As in run by the Federal Government?
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Old 08-30-2011, 08:01 PM
 
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As in run by the Federal Government?

Yes.
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Old 08-31-2011, 07:57 AM
 
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Yes.
No, it's a private company.
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Old 09-16-2011, 05:56 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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Just have to chip in my .02 on the city vs. MSA vs. CSA discussion that went on earlier in this thread. Someone posited that C-bus would eclipse Pittsburgh and Cleveland, etc.

If there is one city that illustrates why MSA/CSA are far more significant than population of the city, its Columbus(I assume Jacksonville and San Jose also do this, but I've never been to either). Can't tell you how many times I got the "hamster on a wheel" feeling in C-bus, no matter how hard I tried to vary my routines.
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Old 09-17-2011, 12:49 PM
 
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Just have to chip in my .02 on the city vs. MSA vs. CSA discussion that went on earlier in this thread. Someone posited that C-bus would eclipse Pittsburgh and Cleveland, etc.

If there is one city that illustrates why MSA/CSA are far more significant than population of the city, its Columbus(I assume Jacksonville and San Jose also do this, but I've never been to either). Can't tell you how many times I got the "hamster on a wheel" feeling in C-bus, no matter how hard I tried to vary my routines.
First, SoCal is like the epitome of urban sprawl, so the criticism comes across as pretty dishonest. Second, most of Columbus' real sprawl is not even in the city limits, but well outside of 270 in other cities/towns such as Dublin, New Albany, Grove City, Canal Winchester, etc. The city size itself is not growing much anymore, so what growth is occuring is largely infill, especially the closer you get to the urban core. That said, it seems that most of the cities that have a huge MSA/CSA also the ones that typically have a lot more sprawl to begin with. Look at most of the Sunbelt, California, etc. Columbus is easily the smallest MSA out of the big 3 in Ohio, and much smaller than Pittsburgh as well. Yet all 3 of those cities have a much smaller city limit. Columbus may have incorporated more of it's far development into the city, but in the end the MSA sprawl is still the least amount of the bunch.
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Old 09-17-2011, 01:36 PM
 
Location: La Jolla
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First, SoCal is like the epitome of urban sprawl, so the criticism comes across as pretty dishonest. Second, most of Columbus' real sprawl is not even in the city limits, but well outside of 270 in other cities/towns such as Dublin, New Albany, Grove City, Canal Winchester, etc. The city size itself is not growing much anymore, so what growth is occuring is largely infill, especially the closer you get to the urban core. That said, it seems that most of the cities that have a huge MSA/CSA also the ones that typically have a lot more sprawl to begin with. Look at most of the Sunbelt, California, etc. Columbus is easily the smallest MSA out of the big 3 in Ohio, and much smaller than Pittsburgh as well. Yet all 3 of those cities have a much smaller city limit. Columbus may have incorporated more of it's far development into the city, but in the end the MSA sprawl is still the least amount of the bunch.
I think you misunderstood my post entirely. My only criticism of C-bus in that post was that it is a big city that feels really small much of the time, due to its location in a small MSA/CSA.

Also, I don't really live in an urban area in Southern California, I live in a desert, part of an extended transnational urban area of a large Mexican city, and I'm not comparing it to Columbus.
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Old 09-17-2011, 03:50 PM
 
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I think you misunderstood my post entirely. My only criticism of C-bus in that post was that it is a big city that feels really small much of the time, due to its location in a small MSA/CSA.

Also, I don't really live in an urban area in Southern California, I live in a desert, part of an extended transnational urban area of a large Mexican city, and I'm not comparing it to Columbus.
The way you wrote it makes it sound like everywhere you went looked the same (implying a lot of look-alike sprawl), so you felt like you weren't going anywhere. Given your many posts now denouncing the city, it's easy to come to the most negative conclusion.

You could just say you live in the northern suburbs of Tijuana.
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