e-commerce

Bondware launches publishing brand, acquires 3-D catalog

Nov 30, 2009 at 10:22 am by miltcapps

Bondware Inc. has launched its new RPublishing brand and has made a strategic acquisition of digital content. Tim Choate, founder and CEO of Murfreesboro-based Bondware, told.... Read More

Briefly: edo Interactive files for $8MM private placement

Jun 12, 2009 at 01:38 pm by miltcapps

In October, when edo Interactive announced completion of a $5 million A-round, CEO Ed Braswell said at the time he thought the funding would be sufficient to fund the company'.... Read More

Airplay Direct chooses Nashville, attracts investors

Jun 11, 2009 at 03:01 pm by miltcapps

Airplay Direct LLC CEO Robert Weingartz told VNC today his early-stage company will soon be headquartered in Nashville. With its founder still its primary fulltime employee,.... Read More

Briefly: Luminetx adds 3rd CEO

Mar 25, 2009 at 01:36 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Luminetx Inc.'s third CEO started work a week ago.  Richard Kindberg (left, in a shot lifted from Linked-In) has succeeded interim CEO Al Gossett, a Me.... Read More

Local FiledBy startup asks authors to claim 1.8 million webpages

Mar 25, 2009 at 12:41 pm by miltcapps

Nashville's FiledBy Inc. formally ended the private phase of its beta launch today by inviting authors to claim web pages created for them at the company's online venue. In a.... Read More

Star-backed Nashville startup toasts global knowledge

Mar 22, 2009 at 08:27 pm by miltcapps

Nashville-based Internet startup Moontoast LLC aims to connect people with problems to experts with solutions, worldwide. Moontoast is claiming a giant step forward in the cr.... Read More

Homeward bound: NV tech company moves to The Boro

Mar 18, 2009 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

Software entrepreneur Tim Choate is relocating his decade-old Bondware Inc. from Davidson County to his hometown of Murfreesboro. Bondware's most visible local division devel.... Read More

Start-up 'Border Jump' leaps into Aeropost alliance

Feb 13, 2009 at 08:01 am by miltcapps

Nashville-based Border Jump LLC aims to help U.S. online retailers overcome barriers to selling goods to Latin American consumers. Border Jump CEO Bobby Frank told VNC yesterd.... Read More

NEWSBITS Feb. 13, 2009

Feb 13, 2009 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

ICA, iPayment, Tractor Supply, Solar Institute interest, Stimulus, Tech competition, and Med-devices firms... ICA Informatics Corporation of America, the Vanderbilt spin-out,.... Read More

Tennessee layoffs rising at dawn of 2009

Jan 29, 2009 at 03:43 pm by miltcapps

Article originally published Jan. 1, 2009, 0830. Accompanying chart updated Jan. 29, 2009, 3:45 p.m. Body of article unchanged.-Ed.   Just as Tennessee was putting the.... Read More

The VNC Reader's Guide to the Best of 2008

Jan 02, 2009 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

VNC's MOST READ STORY OF 2008: State of Tennessee to Invest $900 Million in Private-Equity alternatives VNC NEWS THREADS 2008 ► 2008 VENTURE COMMUNITY CULTURE AND VALUES.... Read More

Venture File: Solidus Company

Dec 10, 2008 at 09:51 am by miltcapps

Updated: Duncan formed Invergarry Holdings (PE/VC) in 2018, having earlier parted ways with Solidus. Update Oct. 30, 2009: Plumgood Food, shown in the list below, is defunct.-.... Read More

'Magazines.com' hires for expansion, eyes Canada

Dec 10, 2008 at 05:31 am by miltcapps

Despite the recession, Franklin-based Magazines.com is growing steadily and looking at other nations' consumers. In a VNC interview, CEO Jay Clarke said he believes his priva.... Read More

Economy: Nashville Business Outlook Summit set for Winter '09

Dec 07, 2008 at 07:31 pm by miltcapps

Updated 10:45 a.m.: correcting Rippee's affiliation. - Ed. Nashvillians are bracing for the harshest Winter economy of the young 21st Century. In an effort to bolster business.... Read More

Online Plumgood expiring, but Satz still running

Dec 05, 2008 at 08:32 am by miltcapps

Update 5:58 PM: Satz says the firm has "closed everything down" and is "not preserving any accounts," despite earlier entertaining that option.-Ed. Plumgood Food, Nashville'.... Read More

Rising Stars: Rep. Cooper adds lawyer to staff

Dec 03, 2008 at 01:48 pm by miltcapps

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-5) has beefed-up his staff for addressing intellectual property and patent issues of interest to the entertainment industry and others, by adding Sam R.... Read More

Rick Oliver's American Sentinel launches D-Round capital raise

Dec 03, 2008 at 10:49 am by miltcapps

American Sentinel University, the online university that includes prominent Nashville investors among its leadership, has launched its fourth capital raise, with a goal in the.... Read More

VU portfolio company is plying A-round capital raise

Nov 25, 2008 at 06:33 am by miltcapps

Acuitec, the Vanderbilt University portfolio company based in Birmingham, is raising A-round capital and will probably relocate to Nashville if angels here become dominant inv.... Read More

Vanderbilt steps-up effort to help faculty create ventures, market products

Nov 23, 2008 at 08:39 pm by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University is strengthening its staff, budget and technology for spawning new ventures and for marketing technologies and educational materials that have been devel.... Read More

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