Randy Boyd

Randy Boyd increases Radio Systems control, TSG Consumer again at table

Mar 17, 2016 at 04:41 pm by miltcapps

Medical Decisions LLC plans $2MM-plus Series A for EvidenceCare platform

Mar 03, 2016 at 05:11 pm by miltcapps

Updated Feb. 3, 2018: EvidenceCare has joined the 6th Accelerator cohort of Texas Medical Center in Houston, details here. 15 May 2017: Chicago's Auctus Group has been mandate.... Read More

Venture Notes - March 1, 2016

Mar 01, 2016 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Mac Bartine TODAY: Smart-RIA, ECD's Randy Boyd, LaunchTN INCITE,Impact Investing, Rebrovick move FINTECH is bubbling-up again in Tennessee: Knoxville-based newco Smar.... 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

Life ScienceTN seeks General Assembly support for readying commercialization program, opts to defer $40MM ask

Feb 16, 2016 at 04:30 pm by miltcapps

AS PROMISED a year ago, Life Science Tennessee (LSTN) has suited-up again to try to create a path toward eventual funding for innovation and Tech commercialization during the.... Read More

Media: NVille's Ayumi Bennett preps launch of regional Startup Southerner

Jan 27, 2016 at 03:45 pm by miltcapps

AYUMI Fukuda Bennett plans to go-live Feb. 1 with Startup Southerners, a site devoted to the Southeast's tech and entrepreneurial scene. Founder and Editor-in-Chief Bennett, 3.... Read More

LaunchTN grapples with robust agenda of opportunities, challenges

Jan 25, 2016 at 06:00 pm by miltcapps

ROBUST discussion may prove the new hallmark of LaunchTN, if last week's quarterly meeting of the nonprofit's board of directors is any indication. Here's a partial collection.... Read More

People: Charleson Bell, Ph.D., innovator at Vanderbilt University

Jan 18, 2016 at 03:39 pm by miltcapps

CHARLESON BELL's comment during the recent Maker-Space Planning meeting at Vanderbilt University really stuck with some of us in the audience. As reported by Venture Nashville.... Read More

Haslam Admin asks GenAssembly for Angel Tax Credit to mobilize early-stage investors and energize Tennessee 'Angel ecosystem'

Jan 15, 2016 at 04:15 pm by miltcapps

Update: April 14, 2016: Credit bill deferred in both chambers til week of April 18. March 2, 2016 1:57pm - The companion bill introduced by Sen. Norris is SB2539. Bills are wo.... Read More

Eyeing Owen MBA, Vrion founder may apply Sohr Grant to Tech needs

Jan 13, 2016 at 02:15 pm by miltcapps

WAITING for a check represents a sort of baptism of fire for freshly minted entrepreneurs. That's particularly true when they're like Vrion Holdings Founder Trisha Fridrich, w.... Read More

Nashville entrepreneur Mike Shmerling offers Seed Capital reality-check

Jan 11, 2016 at 05:00 pm by miltcapps

MIKE SHMERLING, chairman of Nashville-based XMi Holdings, said that while tax-funded capital-formation programs such as Tennessee's TNInvestco certainly "have their place," co.... Read More

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

ECD's Boyd prepping ideas for stimulating TN entrepreneurship, investment

Jan 05, 2016 at 02:45 pm by miltcapps

RANDY BOYD, Tennessee commissioner for economic and community development, is staffing proposals for further energizing the State's entrepreneurial ecosystem and may submit on.... Read More

Kauffman Foundation, Nashville Entrepreneur Center confirm Nashville pact

Nov 17, 2015 at 08:51 am by miltcapps

KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION of Kansas City today announced it intends to plant up to $500K in Nashville's entrepreneurial ecosystem over an 18-month period, with the Nashville Entrepr.... Read More

Gov. Haslam's evolving performance dashboard<br>gains heft and sheds some graphic impact</center>

Nov 16, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Update 16 Dec. 2015: UnitedHealth Foundation ranking: Tennesseans' Health dropped further to 43rd among states.-Ed. GOV. BILL HASLAM's online performance dashboard was at firs.... Read More

LaunchTN designates attorney Bruce Doeg vice chairman

Oct 27, 2015 at 05:20 pm by miltcapps

Update 21 April 2016: In a recent special called meeting by telephone, LaunchTN's board established a quorum for its vote affirming Doeg's role, according to CEO Charlie Brock.... 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

SMTEC accelerator's Marcum retires, LaunchTN Rural plans nears debut

Oct 20, 2015 at 11:45 am by miltcapps

DAN MARCUM plans to retire Dec. 31 from his post as founding executive director of Tullahoma-based Southern Middle Tennessee Entrepreneur Centers (SMTEC), the ongoing role of.... Read More

Tennessee rural economy is focus of new econ-development Fund

Oct 15, 2015 at 11:15 am by miltcapps

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Economic and Community Development Commissioner Randy Boyd announced today [via this press release] the state is investing $8 million in a new R.... Read More

Governor, ECD Commissioner announce rural development task force

Aug 17, 2015 at 03:30 pm by miltcapps

Update: Aug. 19, 2015 10:08am - A source confirmed Memphis Bioworks Foundation will lead efforts to identify investable agri-tech companies, inline with the Haslam-Boyd push..... Read More

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