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Some TN entrepreneurs, investors focus anew on policy agenda

Jul 14, 2014 at 01:13 pm by miltcapps

INVESTORS and entrepreneurs in Tennessee might, one again, be stepping-up their public-policy game. As reported by VNC in an accompanying story today, advocate, entrepreneur.... Read More

With NEC running, Echomusic execs launch Rockhouse

Sep 24, 2009 at 01:52 pm by miltcapps

Update: Rockhouse sold to Raleigh, N.C.-based Etix in January 2011. Original story follows-Ed. Former Echomusic product leader Joe Kustelski is turning his focus to his new d.... Read More

VentureNotes: Council Capital, Solidus at Work

Aug 27, 2012 at 12:54 pm by miltcapps

Dennis Bottorff COUNCIL CAPITAL-backed NuScriptRX, the Nashville-based mail order institutional pharmacy, has reached a $30MM revenue run-rate and has closed on a gro.... Read More

Market Monitor:<br>Investor, Entrepreneur schedules in next 30 days could test road warriors

Aug 31, 2016 at 09:45 am by miltcapps

WE INVITE Venture Nashville and Venture Tennessee readers to join us in focusing on upcoming events and issues that might've gotten off our radars during the Dog Days. There a.... Read More

Startup's GeoAir recipe calls for Drones, pest DNA and AgBiz savvy

Oct 18, 2017 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

WHEN it comes to pest control, most farmers still do it the old-fashioned way -- scouting the fields on foot to see if plants show signs of blight or infestation. But perhaps.... Read More

Kauffman Foundation, Nashville Entrepreneur Center confirm Nashville pact

Nov 17, 2015 at 08:51 am by miltcapps

KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION of Kansas City today announced it intends to plant up to $500K in Nashville's entrepreneurial ecosystem over an 18-month period, with the Nashville Entrepr.... Read More

BizFoundry CEO: Entrepreneur centers must<br>'meet entrepreneurs where they are'

May 08, 2017 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

JEFF BROWN, president and executive director of The Biz Foundry in Cookeville, listed several big lessons he's learned during five years cultivating entrepreneurship in the Up.... Read More

VU Owen GSM's partnership awards EMBA tuition gift

Jul 13, 2009 at 08:27 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management recently announced its fourth gift of an executive MBA for a local nonprofit executive. Elizabeth H. 'Beth' Torres (at left),.... Read More

Angels gas-up Iridium's SmartFuel,<br>but the venture's trip has just begun

Jun 19, 2011 at 10:49 pm by miltcapps

George Sibble, the 28-year-old founder, president and CEO of Iridium Development, got about 24 friends and Angels to put $500,000 into his startup's gas tank to launch its Sma.... Read More

Milken Institute says Tennessee advances, yet struggles with tech commercialization and venture funding

Dec 18, 2018 at 11:42 am by miltcapps

TENNESSEE ranks 39th among the Fifty States in a new Science & Technology Index out today from the Milken Institute, up one notch from two years ago but still well within.... Read More

General Assembly leader, advocates keep LaunchTN SBIR fund hopes alive

Mar 30, 2021 at 05:47 pm by miltcapps

Update: May 12, 2021: LifeScienceTN's press release says the State is funding the SBIR-STTR program with $7MM for matching grants. April 13, 2021: In Gov. Lee's amended budget.... Read More

Anquiro market-intel startup in Nashville acknowledges Angel conversations

Apr 27, 2016 at 04:35 pm by miltcapps

ANQUIRO, the competitive real-estate market intelligence startup based in Franklin, has talks with potential Angel investors and might resort to a raise in the $300K-$500K ran.... Read More

Vanderbilt University Innovation Center's first chief to be Robert Grajewski

Feb 01, 2016 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT S. GRAJEWSKI, a North Carolina entrepreneur, has been chosen through a national search to be the first executive director of the new Vanderbilt University Innovation Ce.... Read More

Tennessee doubles down on LaunchTN, 36|86 looms as inflection point

May 14, 2017 at 02:06 pm by miltcapps

IN 21 DAYS, The State of Tennessee's flagship 36|86 Conference, designed to advance startups and spur investment in high-growth businesses, could become the latest inflection.... Read More

Nashville startups, market movers due for fresh look at NEXT Awards

Mar 05, 2019 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

BELIEVE IT or not, it'll soon be time to submit nominations for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's 2019 NEXT Awards and Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame inductions. Nominations fo.... Read More

7th Round: Latest Sohr Grants help fund tenant-matching,<br>carp-harvesting startups led by VU Owen alumni

May 02, 2018 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

The OwenGSM at VU __ Romance? Shrewdness? Chaos driven by the flapping of entrepreneurial butterfly wings? __ Who really knows what causes Founders to fix their gaze.... Read More

Former interim Eldridge named Business Dean at Lipscomb University

Feb 19, 2016 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

BUSINESS education veteran Ray Eldridge, DBA, is now dean of Lipscomb University's College of Business, university Provost Craig Bledsoe, Ph.D., announced in a press release t.... Read More

Rabbit Hole Creative projects disruptive video, with more to be revealed

Dec 01, 2011 at 10:11 am by miltcapps

Note 22 Sept. 2016: Rabbit Hole was acquired by Nashville/Boston-based Ovation. founded by Clay Sifford. Former Rabbit Hole Operations Director Mark Eicher remains with Ovatio.... 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

McWhorter-led TNECD, LaunchTN aim to elevate two entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystems

Mar 31, 2023 at 07:45 pm by miltcapps

TNECD chief brings entrepreneurial chops to improving state's ecosystems Status of potentially pivotal FY24 State budget becomes clearer next week UT System may have expanded.... Read More

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