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OK, so this story doesn’t have anything to do with technology, but it has a lot to say about both the intelligence and the sense of humor we have here in Northeast Ohio.  From Crain’s comes the following story:

The honors keep coming for Mental Floss, the offbeat, bi-monthly magazine with business operations run from

Geauga County by the husband-and-wife team of Toby and Melanie Maloney.

Inc. magazine included Mental Floss founders Mangesh Hattikudur and Will Pearson, both 28, on its 30 under 30 list of

America’s “coolest entrepreneurs.” The story notes that since its founding in 2001, the company has grown to 12 employees and annual revenues of nearly $2 million.

And Messrs. Hattikudur and Pearson, aided by the Maloneys, “have pushed the brand further than the magazine,” Inc. notes, by producing books, board games and a coming series of children’s books.

The honor comes a little more than a month after the Chicago Tribune named Mental Floss to its list of the country’s 50 best magazines. 

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