Jeff Cornwall

NewBits, March 14, 2011

Mar 14, 2011 at 08:38 am by miltcapps

Nashville Medical Trade Center's spokesman Cole Daugherty (at right) recently told VNC that developer Market Center Management Company (Dallas is "even more confident t.... Read More

Tough Love: Local VCs and Silicon Valley<br>consultant work separately to keep it real

Mar 13, 2011 at 05:09 pm by miltcapps

Menlo Park-based Sramana Mitra says Tennessee startups can raise the odds of success by adopting the bootstrap guidance and the window onto Silicon Valley that she offers. Re.... Read More

DMA taps Buffkin Group to find CEO to face Digital Era

Mar 11, 2010 at 09:25 am by miltcapps

Buffeted by discord and with Digital Era pressures mounting, the Direct Marketing Association has retained The Buffkin Group LLC of Nashville to conduct the search for the glo.... Read More

Solidus, Co-Founders launch JumpStart Foundry for seed-stage investing

Mar 10, 2010 at 12:35 pm by miltcapps

Solidus Company and nearly 20 co-founders have launched JumpStart Foundry LP, which will invest $15,000 in an array of individual seed-stage ventures. Solidus Partner Vic Gat.... Read More

Chancellor's TNInvestco records decision against Coleman

Mar 02, 2010 at 03:13 pm by miltcapps

Nashville Chancery Court Chancellor Russell Perkins' decision released today gives a win to two state commissioners who sought to keep confidential TNInvestco records demande.... Read More

Quick Take: New Seed fund may be on RightSide

Mar 01, 2010 at 10:50 am by miltcapps

Some experts say the "seed-stage" venture model is broken and even Angels are seed-averse. Meanwhile, here in Tennessee the new TNInvestco funds have been encourage.... Read More

People: Martha Stamps has new venue, focused mission

Feb 08, 2010 at 11:44 am by miltcapps

Martha Stamps, synonymous for a decade with Martha's at the Belle Meade Plantation, cheerily told VNC that this morning she served her first offering in her new venue. To the.... Read More

Pathfinder's Stefansic comments on Nashville leverage, challenges

Feb 08, 2010 at 11:05 am by miltcapps

For five years within startup Pathfinder Therapeutics, Chief Operating Officer Jim Stefansic has seldom spoken publicly. In a recent exchange with VNC, however, Stefansic see.... Read More

People: Nix leads Deloitte M&A transaction services here

Jan 14, 2010 at 04:44 pm by miltcapps

Nashville has become the aerie-of-choice for executives with an eagle's-eye on the nation's healthcare sector. One of those sharp-eyed professionals is Lisa Nix, who is direc.... Read More

Clayton McWhorter to chair Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jan 13, 2010 at 12:21 pm by miltcapps

Updated 3:15 p.m. - NTC's Fetherling called after publication of this story to ensure we understood he didn't handpick the NEC board. Our story makes clear the picking was don.... Read More

TCRS makes $25MM private-equity commitment

Nov 19, 2009 at 08:32 am by miltcapps

The Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System has made a $25 million private-equity investment commitment to Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund X, LP. The announcement brings t.... Read More

Entrepreneurs' advice for 'Best of Times, Worst of Times'

Nov 17, 2009 at 03:05 pm by miltcapps

The bad news:  Though officially over, the Great Recession may prove to be neither a 'V' nor even a 'W' recovery on the economic charts. Instead, Belmont University Entr.... Read More

Analytics: SeniorMetrix passes $5MM mark in frail-elderly sector

Sep 29, 2008 at 08:00 pm by miltcapps

SeniorMetrix, the Brentwood firm that provides predictive modeling and data analytics for managing care of the frail elderly, is projecting roughly $6 million in revenue fror.... Read More

'Idea 67': Shmerling offers entrepreneurial concept for Nashville

Sep 29, 2008 at 04:17 pm by miltcapps

Mike Shmerling, CEO and chairman of Xebec Management Inc., told VNC recently that when it comes to breeding new businesses and then keeping them here in Nashville, "entre.... Read More

Belmont University is hatching new ventures

Apr 29, 2008 at 01:35 pm by miltcapps

Belmont University Senior Kevin Jennings, age 23, told me yesterday that "not starting sooner" is the only regret he has about his startup, soundAFX. soundAFX is a marketing.... Read More

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