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VCs: Nashville 'doesn't exist' in minds of many healthcare, tech investors

May 21, 2008 at 08:55 pm by miltcapps

On Monday, Kin Clinton, CEO of Woolsthorpe Technologies, told VNC he has learned the hard way that Nashville's healthcare prowess isn't nearly as well recognized among U.S. mo.... Read More

Chamber CEO: 'Fever pitch' battle vs recession requires tough calls

Oct 01, 2009 at 12:06 pm by miltcapps

Ralph Schulz, the president and CEO of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, says, "What keeps me awake at night is 'What business environment will this settle into'.&q.... Read More

Legal-services entrepreneur Freedman tackles more startups

Oct 14, 2009 at 02:12 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based Joe Freedman already has more entrepreneurial notches in his belt than most 44-year-olds. Nonetheless, Freedman is gearing-up at least three new startups, incl.... Read More

Angel Capital Group outlines deal-syndication strategy

May 26, 2008 at 11:06 pm by miltcapps

The year-old Angel Capital Group LLC, headquartered in Sumner County, pitched its deal-syndication services to more than 30 entrepreneurs and investors, during a meeting Thurs.... Read More

Law ventures simmer in Nashville

Aug 12, 2008 at 09:49 am by miltcapps

Many will remember Brentwood-based Juris Inc. sold out to Lexis/Nexis, with many of its employees then offered jobs in the new parent's Cary, N.C., technology center. By year.... Read More

Passport Health founder once faced 'blank stares'

May 27, 2008 at 07:42 am by miltcapps

Passport Health Communications founder, Chairman and CEO Jim Lackey said he faced "the most blank stares I've ever seen in my life" when he first tried to explained.... Read More

People: Hampton will be point-man in TSU reform

Sep 04, 2008 at 07:53 am by miltcapps

UPDATE: In the wake of an audit that showed continued TSU problems, The Tennessean reported Oct. 8 that TSU President Melvin Johnson has shifted Hampton's responsibiliti.... Read More

TN TechDev's life running through financial hourglass

Oct 21, 2009 at 12:37 pm by miltcapps

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation leaders see the next 30 days as crucial to TTDC's continued ability to add value to the state's tech-driven economic development..... Read More

Nashville VCs may soon hear Google ally knocking

Jun 01, 2008 at 10:20 pm by miltcapps

Updated Mon., June 2, 2008 0758 Smart Furniture Founder-CEO Stephen Culp told VNC Friday his Chattanooga-based company may soon launch an effort to raise up to $15 million.... Read More

Game-changer: Jacobson's Tri-Star group aims for impact

Nov 09, 2009 at 03:41 pm by miltcapps

Harry Jacobson, M.D., and his young venture-investment colleagues find themselves in a target-rich environment. Altogether, they aim to fund young companies, improve healthca.... Read More

'Secret Sauce': Debut Broadcasting hopes investors smell what it's cookin'

Jun 03, 2008 at 10:35 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Debut Broadcasting Corporation now operates a batch of small-market radio stations and says it has exclusive rights to negotiate purchases of 16 additional pro.... Read More

Skoodat raising $3MM for assault on ed-tech sector leader

Nov 16, 2009 at 11:18 am by miltcapps

Skoodat LLC in Chattanooga is seeking Nashville investors' support for an assault on education-technology markets. Skoodat is leveraging the Force.com tech platform created by.... Read More

Entrepreneurs' advice for 'Best of Times, Worst of Times'

Nov 17, 2009 at 03:05 pm by miltcapps

The bad news: Though officially over, the Great Recession may prove to be neither a 'V' nor even a 'W' recovery on the economic charts. Instead, Belmont University Entr.... Read More

Medical Trade Center would expand Convention Center

Nov 30, 2009 at 07:33 am by miltcapps

Update, 3:23 p.m. Nov. 30: Metro, State and local officials and stakeholders announced detail on NMTC plans during a press conference this morning. Plans call for.... Read More

Brainwave Studios seeks $3MM jolt for Franktown Rocks

Nov 30, 2009 at 01:34 pm by miltcapps

Note: After publication of this article, Rob Solberg was reminded of a conversation about NTC he had with an NTC board member who was providing services to Brainwave, a year.... Read More

'Voodoo venture valuations', other truths told at Forum

Dec 08, 2009 at 10:35 am by miltcapps

In Nashville, a venture community-aborning, whenever investors and entrepreneurs are packed into the same room, the air is electric. Last week's capital panel discussion, whi.... Read More

ISO Capital: Dobie Media sets next capital raise for EvieSays

Dec 21, 2009 at 12:22 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based and venture-backed Dobie Media Inc. has begun raising $1.5 million in fresh capital. The early-stage company is pushing its online EvieSays calendaring platfor.... Read More

Bouncing Ideas: VU prof takes 'non-trivial' science to Microsoft

Jun 06, 2008 at 08:24 am by miltcapps

A very small episode from the microcosm of a Vanderbilt scientist suggests maybe these people need to get out more often. Granted, this instance may add-up to no more than a.... Read More

VU's Conn advocates new models for drug discovery

Dec 22, 2009 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

A crisis of innovation grips "the entire biomedical research enterprise," according to the leader of the Vanderbilt Program in Drug Discovery. VPDD Director Jeff Conn, Ph.D.,.... Read More

2010 Economy: Kisber, Cromwell both face reckoning

Jan 06, 2010 at 02:47 pm by miltcapps

The leaders of two platoons of State economic-development professionals will each face a reckoning in 2010. Matt Kisber, Gov. Phil Bredesen's commissioner of economic and comm.... Read More

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