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Tech2020 venture leadership shifts to entrepreneur John Morris

Jan 30, 2012 at 08:11 am by miltcapps

Updated 30 August 2014: Morris announced he's resigning to pursue entrepreneurial interests, Knoxville News Sentinel reported today. Our 2012 story on Morris' appointment is b.... Read More

TrueStartup: 'SourceYourCity' will beta in Frisco waters, then raise capital

Jan 03, 2012 at 09:26 am by miltcapps

SourceYourCity (SYC), the Nashville startup that provides expertise clearinghouses for individual cities, is eyeing a third test market: San Francisco. Pre-revenue SYC observ.... Read More

HIV among targets: Jericho Sciences bio-startup chooses Nashville as home

Jan 02, 2012 at 11:37 am by miltcapps

A 2010 SEARCH for laboratory space led CEO Heidi Kay, Ph.D., to relocate Jericho Sciences from Northern Virginia to Nashville's Cumberland Emerging Technologies' Life Sci.... Read More

Healthbox Technologies' startup scenario signals rapid hiring, eventual M&A

Dec 16, 2011 at 09:23 am by miltcapps

Updated 20 February 2013: Hall Andrews is now CEO of revenue-cycle player nTelagent, said a company press release today. Long ago, Healthbox pivoted, Styers departed. No sign.... Read More

Fauchet to succeed Ken Galloway as Dean of Vanderbilt University School of Engineering

Dec 08, 2011 at 11:30 am by miltcapps

Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Dean Kenneth Galloway will return to the faculty after the Spring 2012 semester. He will be succeeded by Philippe Fauchet, cu.... Read More

ReTickr: Day 104 could bring the stress some entrepreneurs pray for

Nov 21, 2011 at 09:43 am by miltcapps

If the founders of ReTickr are lucky, today they'll experience clenched teeth and hyperventilation, along with another spike in downloads of their still-evolving content-filte.... Read More

Lifestyle startups are focus for Lipscomb Center for Entrepreneurship; Joe Ivey prepares to recruit leaders, mentors and internships

Nov 21, 2011 at 03:45 am by miltcapps

Family-owned and "lifestyle" businesses that seek organic growth, rather than rapid scale-up and entrepreneurial exits are the focus of Lipscomb University's Center for Entrep.... Read More

Ideas: Vandy student's sly EYES|ONLY service re-mixes upscale experience

Nov 09, 2011 at 09:21 am by miltcapps

Founder Patrick Widen describes the first EYES|ONLY offerings from his Blend LLC startup as amounting to "lifestyle espionage," a way to get premium perqs delivered with a tou.... Read More

Life Science Tennessee sets priorities, rallies industry, leverages support of Gov. Bill Haslam for commercialization

Nov 07, 2011 at 07:49 am by miltcapps

Life Science Tennessee has fewer than 80 corporate members today, but will soon be knocking on doors of nearly 700 non-member firms within the state, as well as strategizing t.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Nov. 7, 2011

Nov 07, 2011 at 05:48 am by miltcapps

Erik Carlson Streamweaver may be in self-avowed "stealth" mode, but LinkedIn indicates the TNInvestco-backed company is the result of an acquisition and it has a new.... Read More

Commercialization: UTSC's Dale reviews Vaxent's progress on Strep-A vaccine

Nov 06, 2011 at 02:25 pm by miltcapps

Memphis-based Vaxent, the vaccine-development company focused on Group A streptococcus (GAS), is likely to seek a commercialization partner or raise capital by 2014, said co-f.... Read More

Entrepreneurs: If you're still 'thinking about doing a startup', get a job instead

Oct 31, 2011 at 09:54 am by miltcapps

Entrepreneurs of the world, Get Busy: You have nothing to lose but your income and your family. You've probably already lost your mind. Okay, so Solidus partner Vic Gatto did.... Read More

NewsBits, Oct. 26, 2011

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

NELSON'S GREEN BRIER DISTILLERY's recently launched $500K capital raise promises to rekindle the Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey brand, now led by founder Charles Nelso.... Read More

Regional Roundup, Oct. 26, 2011

Oct 26, 2011 at 10:54 am by miltcapps

VENTURE Capital has a new face in Tullahoma: Marcum Capital, its TNInvestco NEST-TN and other entities are now operating beneath the brand umbrella of Relevance Capital.... Read More

IP imperative: MyWerx, Cumberland Center and Universities ally for iExchange

Oct 19, 2011 at 10:32 am by miltcapps

A partnership between tech entrepreneur Tim Smith and nonprofit CEO Scott Massey seems likely to ensure that the fledgling Cumberland Center becomes an action tank, rather tha.... Read More

ShareableInk CEO 'not yet convinced' he can build techco in Nashville

Oct 11, 2011 at 07:58 am by miltcapps

Shareable Ink, the startup that digitizes physicians’ handwritten documentation for electronic health records, relocated here from Boston mainly because of Nashville's h.... Read More

NewsBits, April 18, 2011

Apr 18, 2011 at 09:38 am by miltcapps

Commercialization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Center for Intelligent Mechatronics (CIM): Irvine, Calif.-based Freedom Innovations announced worldwide l.... Read More

Launch Like it Counts: LifeKraze eyeing $5MM B-round

Apr 18, 2011 at 07:48 am by miltcapps

Update: LifeKraze announced 28 October 2013 it had changed its name to Spire. Our 2011 intro story follows-Ed. LIFEKRAZE, the pro-active social media platform based in.... Read More

Bailey-Curran deal signals more entrepreneurial activity

Feb 22, 2011 at 07:23 am by miltcapps

Resource Communications Group President Melinda Curran says she'll allow six months or more to absorb Andy Bailey's NationsLink Wireless, and then may begin preparing for anot.... Read More

Google exec who launched Earth, Moon & Mars returns to Vanderbilt School of Engineering