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NEWSBITS, March 18, 2010

Mar 18, 2010 at 12:19 pm by miltcapps

David Mason (left), who was CEO of Nashville-based StudioNow before its sale in January to AOL for $36.5 million, is now SVP of the AOL Content Platform, reporting to former G.... Read More

Local iTech hiring may be resurgent, but too soon to call

Mar 29, 2010 at 12:56 pm by miltcapps

Hiring in the Nashville information-technology community might be thawing-out, but no one really knows, for sure. A recent IT-hiring report from Nashville Technology Council.... Read More

Ferguson CEO of ClearPractice, backed by VC Doerr

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:28 am by miltcapps

Nashville's Gary Ferguson has been named president and CEO of ClearPractice LLC, an electronic medical records (EMR) and revenue-cycle spin-off backed by fabled venture capita.... Read More

Gov. Bredesen OK's fight-game overseers; Incubator CEO aims for martial-arts debut this fall

Jun 16, 2008 at 12:08 am by miltcapps

On Friday, Gov. Phil Bredesen signed into law a measure that creates a state commission to oversee boxing, kickboxing and mixed martial arts. The new law expands state o.... Read More

Uniguest reeling-in M&As, eyes digital-signage growth

Apr 01, 2010 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated Dec. 22, 2016: Industry veteran Jeff Hiscox appointed CEO, succeeding Joseph Morgan, who served more than a year after succeeding John Bearden. Oct. 14, 2015: Uniguest.... Read More

Venture Nashville Calendar Update

Apr 03, 2010 at 05:39 pm by miltcapps

► Gov. Phil Bredesen's 8-year economic development push reaches a milestone Sept. 27-28, when the Administration convenes the 57th Annual Governor's Conference on Economic and.... Read More

Venture Notes, April 5, 2010

Apr 05, 2010 at 04:27 am by miltcapps

Gibson Guitar was recently under The FT's Debtwire microscope, in a story about pressures that might yet force reorganization of the privately held instrument maker. Sources.... Read More

Deep Cuts: <i>Songness</i> discovers 'invisible' performers

Dec 20, 2010 at 07:25 am by miltcapps

Songness, an online artist-rating and song-recommendation platform, is being upgraded and readied for formal launch, according to CEO Bill Geissler, a Shelbyville entrepr.... Read More

New $100MM venture fund creator retains 2nd Generation

Oct 01, 2008 at 08:40 am by miltcapps

Jon Yarbrough, creator of a new $100 million investment fund and founder-CEO of Smyrna-based Video Gaming Technologies, told VNC yesterday he has retained merchant banker 2nd.... Read More

VC Coleman Swenson Booth realized $44MM in 2010; portfolio exits likely to continue in 2011

Jan 18, 2011 at 07:38 am by miltcapps

Coleman Swenson Booth's exits from portfolio firms in 2010 yielded $44 million and further exits lie ahead, said CSB Managing Partner Larry Coleman. Full or partial exits fro.... Read More

M&A: Nashville Software, IT firms mull buying, selling

Feb 07, 2011 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

Tech-sector mergers and acquisitions may be heating-up in Middle Tennessee, based on a sampling of opinion-leaders. At least one respondent is giving selling rigorous consider.... Read More

NewsBits, Feb. 14, 2011

Feb 14, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Joe Cook Jr. Joe Cook Jr. became chairman of Life Science Tennessee, effective Feb. 3. In a VNC interview a year ago, Cook said Nashville needed a culture of "true in.... Read More

UTRF: Genera Energy launches Innovation venture fund

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:32 am by miltcapps

Genera Energy, a wholly owned for-profit subsidiary of the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, will soon begin recruiting investment in the first of two or more ventu.... Read More

Governor's e-Health quarterback shifting back to private sector

Jun 20, 2008 at 09:51 am by miltcapps

UPDATE June 25, 2008 - Brentwood-based Cogent Healthcare CEO Gene Fleming today announced Antoine Agassi will become the company's chief information officer, July 1. As origi.... Read More

VCs hope to avoid 'smoking holes', look for passion<br>and aim for 'great companies' over jobs-creation

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Solidus Co. Managing Partner Townes Duncan apparently shares a fear common among Ace fighter pilots: He really doesn't want to end-up being part of a "smokin' hole" in the gro.... Read More

NewsBits, March 7, 2011

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE MISSES-OUT on 105 jobs spawned by Vanderbilt University tech-transfer portfolio company TyraTech, the natural pest- and parasite-fighting solutions producer, which i.... Read More

Tough Love: Local VCs and Silicon Valley<br>consultant work separately to keep it real

Mar 13, 2011 at 05:09 pm by miltcapps

Menlo Park-based Sramana Mitra says Tennessee startups can raise the odds of success by adopting the bootstrap guidance and the window onto Silicon Valley that she offers. Re.... Read More

Nashville 49th among 60 cities in creating Tech jobs

Jun 24, 2008 at 06:51 am by miltcapps

UPDATE JUNE 27 - See comments on the report from NTC's Costantine, right here. As originally reported: Greater Nashville qualifies for membership in a group of 60 ".... Read More

Will Nashville technology community 'mushroom'?

Jul 15, 2008 at 11:44 am by miltcapps

Skip Franklin is not alone among Nashville digerati who believe the city's about to experience a techno Big Bang of some kind. Of course, only time will tell. Meanwhile, if '.... Read More

NewsBits, March 28, 2011

Mar 28, 2011 at 03:25 pm by miltcapps

McWhorter Startup investment: Stuart McWhorter, co-founder and president of Clayton Associates, the Brentwood venture-capital firm, has personally invested in 24/7 Sp.... Read More

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