leadership

Obituary: Fred Goad, 84, Nashville entrepreneur and investor has died

Jul 15, 2025 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

FRED CURTIS GOAD JR., a widely respected Nashville-area private investor, entrepreneur and advisor, died June 4, at age 84. Goad's healthcare-weighted career most recently inc.... Read More

Chamber's Leadership Connect empowers competitive SMB and entrepreneurial owners for business and community gains

Jan 14, 2025 at 12:56 pm by miltcapps

The Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Connect program affords competitively selected cohorts of small-business owners and entrepreneurs opportunities to e.... Read More

Tom Noser: 'When to broaden product offerings at early-stage companies'

Aug 05, 2023 at 01:45 pm by miltcapps

There are five instances in which leaders of an early-stage company should expand their product offerings: ❶ When an outside factor produces a remarkable opportunity or threat.... Read More

WINNERS! Nashville tech startups, enterprises + pro's vie for NTC laurels

Feb 16, 2023 at 08:30 pm by miltcapps

WINNERS updated Feb. 16, 2023: The winners announced this evening are highlighted in yellow below in our story of Dec. 10, 2022, and tonight's NTC press release is available h.... Read More

LaunchTN: Van Tucker steps down as CEO, Abby Trotter to serve interimly

Aug 06, 2021 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

TENNESSEE Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe announced today that CEO Van Tucker will step down from her role as president and CEO of Laun.... Read More

Venture Notes - May 19, 2021

May 19, 2021 at 04:29 pm by miltcapps

Today: Virtuoso | DARVIS | Claritas | Caduceus | SureTest | Compwell | Ortale | Winter | ProNvest | emocha | EDPBio | Nth | Tooth | Hemp | Nusachi | Borderless | LINQ | Derma.... Read More

Life Science TN convenes GOP panel here to mull Election 2016's impact

Nov 02, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

JUST ahead of the nation's pivotal Presidential election, representatives of Life Science Tennessee (LSTN), an industry association, say LSTN wants to keep journalists out of.... Read More

Former US Senator Frist 'cautiously optimistic'<br>nation will address healthcare effectively

Oct 27, 2016 at 04:45 pm by miltcapps

BILL FRIST M.D., the cardiothoracic surgeon and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader, said today he is "cautiously optimistic" there "will be a window of about two years" after.... Read More

CEO: Cicayda LLC extends Series B for growth, receives suitors

Feb 18, 2016 at 04:00 pm by miltcapps

CICAYDA LLC, the Nashville startup with a cloud-based eDiscovery platform supporting the work of legal professionals, is raising more capital to fund its growth and frequently.... Read More

SIIA: C-levels eye Software-cos' finance, performance 3/16 at the EC

Feb 17, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

SPEAKERS have been added for SIIA's daylong 'Deciphering Finance' conference March 16 at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. The Software and Information Industry Association e.... Read More

$26MM+: EdTech consolidator LTG buys Rustici SW, stake in Watershed

Jan 29, 2016 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

Updated: In his LinkedIn post Nov. 15, 2018, Founder Mike Rustici, dealing with cancer, said LTG would also buy the balance of Watershed. 1 June 2018: Former Products Director.... Read More

Update: Oasis Venture youth social-enterprise program nears launch

Jan 27, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

OASIS VENTURE, the new social-enterprise program for youth formed by a partnership between Oasis Center and Marcus Whitney of The Unlikely Company, will soon launch a pilot co.... Read More

Venture Notes - January 19, 2016

Jan 19, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

Entac Medical, Crom Carmichael, Jamplify, Innova leads series A, Mountain Group,DiaTech founder, former Cogent CEO, Wellview Health and more. HAPTEN SCIENCES, Memphis pharma e.... Read More

Nashville EC's BunkerLabs, Veteran Entrepreneur Society gather Jan. 21

Jan 18, 2016 at 01:00 pm by miltcapps

Updated - Bunker Labs Nashville announced Feb. 24, 2016, that the local program's founding sponsor is Comcast. The program is resident at the NEC.-Ed. MILITARY VETERANS with e.... Read More

Pitching flag Outdoors, RootsRated raises $3MM, with Series A underway

Nov 05, 2015 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

  Fynn Glover Updated In June 2018: TFP reporter Mark Pace reported RootsRated had shifted from B2C to B2B white-labeling its software an.... Read More

Holland names Valentine as Centresource managing partner

Nov 03, 2015 at 11:36 am by miltcapps

Updated 16 Aug 2016: Holland has shuttered Surge.-Ed. Centresource, the 12-year-old Nashville software company founded by entrepreneur Nicholas Holland, has tapped Brandon Val.... Read More

Lipscomb University's Leadership Tennessee initiative gets $750,000 Gates Foundation grant to expand programs

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:41 pm by miltcapps

from submitted press release LEADERSHIP TENNESSEE, a leadership education initiative of Lipscomb University's Nelson & Sue Andrews Institute for Civic Leadership, has rec.... Read More

Inner Circle: Executives aboard for IdleAir Technologies' 2008 Chapter 11

Feb 06, 2015 at 10:43 am by miltcapps

PROTECTIONS sought in 2008 by IdleAire Technologies Corporation through the Chapter 11 process led to the emergence of a second company, IdleAire Inc., the assets of whic.... Read More

Nashville Technology Council dips cyber-toe into public policy waters

Feb 02, 2015 at 08:00 am by miltcapps

NASHVILLE Technology Council (NTC) recently became affiliated with a grassroots industry coalition that advocates federal, state and regional policies that it asserts are "imp.... Read More

LaunchTN: McWhorter board resignation adds to agency's to-do's

Jan 27, 2015 at 01:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: See ECD comment added below.-Ed. LAUNCHTN, led by CEO Charlie Brock and new Chairman and State Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd, has an ample list of to-d.... Read More

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