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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

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

NewsBits, February 22, 2011

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

ECD's Smith Gov. Bill Haslam's Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty appointed Brad M. Smith his assistant commissioner. Smith was previously e.... Read More

NewsBits, February 28, 2011

Feb 28, 2011 at 08:43 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University is moving along in efforts to recruit an assistant vice chancellor to support technology transfer and commercialization efforts. The assignment is.... Read More

Law + Leverage: Baker Donelson adds Sloan for technology & emerging companies

Mar 07, 2011 at 08:04 am by miltcapps

Beginning today, Chris Sloan dons the colors of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, expanding the law firm's presence in the emerging-company and technology secto.... 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

VCs hope to avoid 'smoking holes', look for passion 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

Tough Love: Local VCs and Silicon Valley 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

NewsBits, April 4, 2011

Apr 04, 2011 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

TripRaiser may have legs: Nashvillians Lauren and Wade Honeycutt (left), both age 23 and 2009 Auburn grads, told VNC they plan a May launch for their software as se.... Read More

Nashville exec immersed in Cisco's healthcare mission

Jul 30, 2008 at 09:23 pm by miltcapps

Frank Grant, based in Nashville, is the "face of healthcare" in North America for Cisco Systems, the San Jose-based networking giant that's fast-approaching $40 bill.... Read More

Angel Tax Credit: Prayers for passage not on all lips

Apr 11, 2011 at 08:34 am by miltcapps

The Angel Investor Tax Credit proposal now before the General Assembly may remind some of the adage, "Be careful what you pray for." Denenberg Angel Capita.... Read More

Digital ventures: NEC & Music City allies strike a match

Apr 14, 2011 at 11:21 am by miltcapps

Potentially explosive digital-entertainment ideas fill the air in Nashville. We just need someone to strike a match. That belief seems to be driving a new mentoring and promo.... Read More

Link: Briggs named to lead BMI technology innovation

Apr 25, 2011 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

Gov. Haslam: TN to co-invest via INCITE innovation and jobs-formation campaign

May 05, 2011 at 04:12 pm by miltcapps

GOVERNOR Bill Haslam's new $50 million INCITE economic-innovation program will include co-investment for Tennessee ventures, new incubators, a push on both tech transfer and e.... Read More

Griffin Technology founder again CEO as exec returns to campus

Sep 24, 2008 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

Griffin Technologies Founder Paul Griffin is once again CEO, as well as president, following David Owens' return to his former faculty position at the Owen Graduate School of.... Read More

Dan Hammond whets VCs' appetites for 'Just A Pinch' media spin-out

May 11, 2011 at 09:22 am by miltcapps

Dan Hammond, the Nashville media-culture entrepreneur, has apparently consulted his heartland gut and decided to keep 'dancing with the one that brung him'. Hammond, the 51-y.... Read More

CapControls' $3.8m cap raise and AnalytX pact drive Maxwell start-up's pursuit of growth

May 22, 2011 at 06:03 pm by miltcapps

EARLY-STAGE venture CapControls is aggressively pursuing growth through a strategic partnership with AnalytX, after securing capital from a TNInvestco and other investors, sai.... Read More

VC scouts venture talent for The Buffkin Group

Aug 17, 2008 at 06:59 am by miltcapps

These days, Don Mundie, the venture capitalist who founded Delta Capital Management, applies his due-diligence skills to finding executives who can ignite portfolio companies.... Read More

Fetherling eyes HealthDataSource role, resigns NTC; Tech Council sets CEO search and strategic review

May 24, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

ENTREPRENEUR Tod Fetherling, the man who said he aimed to energize an association some thought had become "old and stodgy," has resigned his post as president of Nas.... Read More

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

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

NewsBits, Feb. 14, 2011

NewsBits, February 22, 2011

NewsBits, February 28, 2011

Law + Leverage: Baker Donelson adds Sloan<br>for technology & emerging companies

Will Nashville technology community 'mushroom'?

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

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

NewsBits, April 4, 2011

Nashville exec immersed in Cisco's healthcare mission

Angel Tax Credit: Prayers for passage not on all lips

Digital ventures: NEC & Music City allies strike a match

Link: Briggs named to lead BMI technology innovation

Gov. Haslam: TN to co-invest via INCITE<br>innovation and jobs-formation campaign

Griffin Technology founder again CEO as exec returns to campus

Dan Hammond whets VCs' appetites<br>for 'Just A Pinch' media spin-out

CapControls' $3.8m cap raise and AnalytX pact<br>drive Maxwell start-up's pursuit of growth

VC scouts venture talent for The Buffkin Group

Fetherling eyes HealthDataSource role, resigns NTC;<br>Tech Council sets CEO search and strategic review

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