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Guest Column: Don't risk demoting your brand with Artificial Intelligence

Aug 06, 2024 at 03:00 pm by miltcapps

"Content is King" remains a business axiom, but overreliance on artificial intelligence in communications for marketing and customer experience is already undermining some bra.... Read More

Obit: Bob Duthie, Nortel+GTE exec who built e-learning biz in Nashville

Jul 23, 2023 at 01:58 pm by miltcapps

ROBERT WILSON "Bob" DUTHIE, a Canada-born student of science and engineering who held R&D and executive business development roles within telecoms Nortel and GTE before fo.... Read More

Entrepreneurs, Investors place bets on LaunchTN 3686 & Health:Further

Jul 30, 2018 at 01:20 pm by miltcapps

WHETHER out of inspiration or insanity, those who have crammed LaunchTN's 36|86 and Health:Further events into August 27-30 in Nashville have created what they hope will bring.... Read More

HC adaptive learning entrant OnSomble targets Nashville, mulls capraise

Jul 25, 2018 at 05:15 pm by miltcapps

ONSOMBLE Inc., the Nashville adaptive-learning platform company serving the healthcare industry, recently booked consecutive profitable quarters and could soon provide a liqui.... Read More

Guest commentary: Growing SaaS requires shift to Account Based Selling

Jul 25, 2018 at 09:14 am by miltcapps

AFTER spending many years growing the revenue and strengthening operations at Borland, Compaq, Art Technology Group (ATG) in the U.S. and abroad, I began developing what I fel.... Read More

LaunchTN to ask 5-year, $44MM State support for maturing action plan

Jul 23, 2018 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

CEO Charlie Brock said his goal upon taking the reins of Launch Tennessee in January 2013 was always to "come in sprinting, and go out sprinting." Brock recently announced tha.... Read More

Memphis Money: Sage Advantage Fund created by advisory firm's founders

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:00 pm by miltcapps

March 16: Tech sector Execs focus on Software growth + finance in Nashville

Jan 11, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

RAMPING-UP Software companies' growth, performance and value is the focus March 16 at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, during an Executive event convened by the Software and.... Read More

VC's Lucro Marketplace for Healthcare solutions seeks array of partners

Dec 01, 2015 at 02:30 pm by miltcapps

Updated 17 Sept. 2018 - Frisco/Dallas-based Valify, backed by Frist Cressey, Step5 Capital, Meridian St. Capital, bought Martin Ventures-backed Lucro, it announced yesterday..... Read More

Health:Further - Jumpstart Foundry taps 9 of 240 app's for 2015 cohort

May 14, 2015 at 10:30 am by miltcapps

Jumpstart Foundry, the now-healthcare-centric accelerator based in Nashville, had 240 applicants for this year's 14-week endurance test -- and they picked nine (four of them f.... Read More

Mainsail Group capraise funds contract-marketing, alt-revenue startup

May 13, 2015 at 11:27 am by miltcapps

MAINSAIL GROUP, the Franklin-based contract brand-marketing and placement company, has completed a $650K Series A raise, said Co-Founder and President Wes Sellers. Positioned.... Read More

Indigo Woman: CEO says Stony Creek Colors' capraise awaits pilot results

Apr 07, 2015 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

STONY CREEK COLORS' decision on a capital raise awaits results from Indigo crop-production scale-up tests this summer, said Sarah Bellos, the company's founder, CEO and majori.... Read More

CEO: Edgenet doubles-down on NVille as Tech 'beehive', but has concerns

Apr 03, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

EDGENET, the reborn provider of product-information management technology that helps its customers intercept buyers globally, is moving back into Nashville -- and it's top exe.... Read More

LifeScience: TNInvestco-funded Diagnovus' growth may lie in hands of East/West coastal investors

Dec 09, 2013 at 11:39 am by miltcapps

Updated: Jan. 6, 2015: Aegis Sciences Corp. acquired Diagnovus, story here.-Ed. FRESH ON THE HEELS of startup Diagnovus' introduction of its second molecular-diagnostic assay,.... Read More

Managers see TNInvestco benefits, Sen. Kyle restates case for outreach

Mar 05, 2012 at 09:15 am by miltcapps

VenturePeople: LeShane Greenhill and Sagents

Mar 05, 2012 at 09:10 am by miltcapps

LeShane GreenHill SAGENTS, a Cloud-based startup, aims to be the "premier online sales connector," said its 34-year-old Founder LeShane Gree.... Read More

TN ECD asks public comment on $30MM Co-Investment plans

Nov 28, 2011 at 05:41 pm by miltcapps

The office of State Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bill Hagerty on Nov. 28, 2011, issued draft guidelines for its 2012 INCITE Co-Investment Fund for early-sta.... Read More

Fortune's Force Five supports startups' crucial early sales efforts

Nov 27, 2011 at 08:59 pm by miltcapps

A FEW YEARS AGO, Marc Fortune got a rude reminder of how tough it is to be the lead person pursuing sales for a startup. As a result of that bruising, Fortune launched Force.... Read More

Venture Disruptors: Executives shaping Tennessee Innovation

Dec 11, 2009 at 09:09 am by miltcapps

Leaders statewide are working to make a plus within Tennessee's 'new economy'. Who will most significantly influence the course of innovation, invention, entreprene.... 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

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