Cure for chronic illness. Autonomous flying machines. Discovery, innovations, new inventions. The possibilities for answers are here in Toledo.
If you have original ideas and a computer, you can fulfill your dreams in Toledo.
Tom Burden (founder of Grypmat) said it best, “It’s not about where you are. You don’t have to be from Silicon Valley to make something new. You can be right here from The University of Toledo.”
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Mr. Burden, a University of Toledo alumnus and fighter jet mechanic, spoke recently to a group of students about his journey developing his new product
One of the takeaways from the speech is you don’t have to move to California to be a successful inventor. All the tools you need are right here in Toledo.
The cost of operations is very affordable in Toledo. If you have a marketable product, people will come to you.
Housing is also very afforable in Toledo. Housing in California is very expensive. Your $150,000 home in Toledo will cost you at least $850,000 in Silicon Valley.
Toledo is terra firma for new ideas and development of those ideas. Tom Burden is a successful inventor and entrepreneur. He was also an engineering student at The University of Toledo, not Standford University, Palo Alto, California. Be happy you live in Toledo.
Strive to be the next Thomas Alva Edison or Tom Burden.
GEORGE WEIDNER
West Toledo
First Published December 9, 2018, 12:15 p.m.
