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Nashville Entrepreneur Center appointments heavy with longtime advocates

Oct 27, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Entrepreneur Center, the nonprofit chartered six years ago to cultivate Music City innovation, entrepreneurship and investable businesses, has completed a periodic r.... Read More

LaunchTN calibrates its Tech Transfer, Commercialization roles

Oct 22, 2015 at 11:00 am by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN, the public-private partnership, is nearing completion of a strategic review of ways it might help create further economic value through technology transfer and comme.... Read More

Incoming leader: L-3 ForceX disciplined growth still priority for new parent

Oct 20, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: Oct. 30, 2015 - In Tennessean op-ed today, after sale to L3, former CEO Guarino says she's committed to STEM education and growing Nashville's Tech talent base.-Ed. LU.... Read More

LaunchTN announces 2015-2016 Class of The TENN

Oct 06, 2015 at 03:15 am by miltcapps

VNC Update 21 Jan. 2016 - The 2016 final event for The TENN will be April 21, 2016 at City Winery.-Ed. From the original release: Launch Tennessee [Tennessee Technology Develo.... Read More

Belmont bootstrapping advocate Jeff Cornwall unveils family business

Aug 10, 2015 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

JEFF CORNWALL, the Belmont University entrepreneurship professor who far more often favors bootstrapping over taking outside capital, now has a family-owned business he's quie.... Read More

TN's AgLaunch entrepreneurship event to mark progress toward activation

Aug 10, 2015 at 03:38 pm by miltcapps

AGLAUNCH, the State of Tennessee's agriculture-sector entrepreneurship and business-acceleration push, will mark a milestone Aug. 20 and then push onward. On that date, Ag-se.... Read More

Centerstone Research Institute eyes capital for healthcare analytics spin-out

Jul 28, 2015 at 03:15 pm by miltcapps

CENTERSTONE Research Institute (CRI) looks to raise $2.2MM in capital for a predictive-analytics spin-out that will serve the behavioral healthcare market. CRI CEO Tom Doub, P.... Read More

Vanderbilt University seeks ExecDirector for new VU Innovation Center

Jul 23, 2015 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Updated: 1 Nov. 2015 - VNC understands that some initial cuts have been made within the applicant pool. Interviews are expected in Nov.-Dec. timeframe. Goal is to have person.... Read More

Update: LaunchTN continues to refine strategy and priorities

Jul 20, 2015 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

ENTERING its 18th year of life, LaunchTN seems to be enjoying more continuity than in recent prior years. Having survived political crosscurrents during the 2009 TNInvestco ca.... Read More

Updated: LaunchTN board of directors

Jul 20, 2015 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's Chairman Randy Boyd and three new board members are highlighted below. For other incumbent board members' bios, please visit the LaunchTn website here. An asterisk.... Read More

LaunchTN Staffing update

Jul 20, 2015 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Update: LaunchTN confirmed July 21, 2015, that Michael Poncé has been hired and is aboard as marketing manager. - Ed. LAUNCH Tennessee recently announced expanded role.... Read More

Tennessee VCs and institutional partners ask opinions on ecosystem

Jul 20, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

VNC's previous reporting on exploration of the concept of the TennesSeed POC Fund is located here. Release below provided July 15, 2015, by Grady Vanderhoofven of Meritus Ven.... Read More

Pandoland June 15-17: Tennessee startups among festival's $100K seekers

May 26, 2015 at 09:00 am by miltcapps

Updated 11 June 2015: Pando announced FREE admission for Women, using promo code 'Nobro' at this signup page.-Ed. PANDOLAND, the entrepreneurship and technology festival in Na.... Read More

36|86: Village 36 startup presenters

May 24, 2015 at 01:28 pm by miltcapps

Note: For discount and conference details for the 36|86 conference in Nashville, visit here now.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, the Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC), a.... Read More

CEO McWhorter names Julia Polk program officer at Entrepreneur Center

May 21, 2015 at 09:21 am by miltcapps

Stuart McWhorter, president and CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, announced today that Julia Polk [LinkedIn] will be the EC's new chief program officer effective June.... Read More

Venture fusion: LaunchTN's 36|86 attracts People, Ideas, Capital

May 20, 2015 at 10:00 am by miltcapps

LAUNCHTN's 36|86 conference June 8-10 is arguably the most visible stratagem in Tennessee's campaign to establish the state as "the best place in the Southeast to start and gr.... Read More

Update: Nashville BLEON IoT startup names Interim CEO

May 06, 2015 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

BLEON Co-founder Mark Filaroski has taken-up fulltime business development duties and former advisor Gaurav Khanna, Ph.D., is now the startup's Interim CEO, the two men confir.... Read More

Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, experts sought for LSTN statewide network

May 04, 2015 at 12:00 pm by miltcapps

LIFESCIENCE entrepreneurs-in-residence, mentors and other experts are being recruited to provide startup founders additional savvy and connections for their fledgling Tennesse.... Read More

Citizengine eyes capital raise, sees 2016 election cycle as inflection point

Apr 30, 2015 at 01:30 pm by miltcapps

Update on capital: See our subsequent story, here.-Ed. CITIZENGINE, the Nashville parent of civic-engagement startup iCitizen, will probably pursue another capital raise later.... Read More

Noted: Bootstrap Nashville 2015 plans under review

Apr 13, 2015 at 04:06 pm by miltcapps

BOOTSTRAP Nashville 2015, which has been quietly touted as a collaboration between TalkApolis and The Entrepreneurial Mind, is being rescheduled. Kane Harrison, identified as.... Read More

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