When Sam Bowen took the stage at the GigTank demo day on Tuesday afternoon, he talked about everything wrong with corporate training. And he should know. He’s been a trainer throughout most of his career. He has trained professionals in state government, the hospitality industry, and non profit organizations. At one point he even had
Community banks are great. Often times community banks have more 1:1 resources to give to their customers. They can offer education, guidance and products that benefit local businesses, local residents and bolster the local economy. But what happens when a college student or young adult leaves home for another city? Well often times they turn
This Indian startup just graduated from the GigTank bringing the “internet of things” to the elderly. More here.
By 14 this social entrepreneur had started his own foundation. He got his start as a social entrepreneur when he was 10.
Last year August was Demo Day month in Tennessee. During the month of August (on consecutive Thursdays no less), Chattanooga’s GigTank, Memphis’ Zeroto510, and Nashville’s Jumpstart Foundry all held their demo days. The month of August was a true testament to the strong commitment to startups and entrepreneurship that exists across Tennessee. We were fortunate
Launch Tennessee and the Blackstone Foundation are looking for Tennessee’s best accelerated startups.
On Saturday, the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a guest post by Dr. Jeffery Canter. Canter is a retired professor of molecular physiology and biophysics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and a consultant for many healthcare startups in Nashville. Apparently Canter lived in Ohio before Nashville. In his piece Canter criticizes Ohio as a whole and offers a
Chattanooga’s wait list startup, QuickCue, inks major deal with Mellow Mushroom bringing their wait list app chain wide for years to come.
Columbus’ cohort-based startup accelerator, 10x, is gearing up for their 2013 fall session. The accelerator, started in 2011, has successfully accelerated startups like UFunded, Ribbon, and LaunchGram, which was acquired in February by Referly. 10x takes 10 startups for 10 weeks and seeds them with $20,000 in seed funding, office space, and a strong mentor
Banyan co-founder Toni Gamayel pitches Banyan, the winner of last year’s entrepreneur track at GigTank Demo day in Chattanooga. The team has incorporated more features that make scientific research collaboration easier and tracking easier for authors and universities
The inaugural Southland conference is less than a month away. With that they’ve selected the first 20 startups in their startup village of 50 which is a great reflection of the awesome startups across the landscape of the southeast.
We told you today was going to be a big day for summer startup accelerator classes. Earlier today we reported on Memphis’ highly successful medical device accelerator Zeroto510 and their summer class. Before that we reported on Techstars Boulder class for summer 2013. Now we turn to Nashville Tennessee and the Jumpstart Foundry. This startup
Last year, Chattanooga Tennessee became the first city in the country to have a 1gb fiber network that was available to all businesses and residents within a 600 square mile area. The gb fiber is the backbone to the city’s new grid so the connections automatically go to every residence and business within the footprint.
August is just about over and “Demo Day Month” in the great state of Tennessee concluded last Thursday at JumpStart Foundry’s Demo Day in Nashville. It was a month that Vice President Gore should be proud of afterall nothing says innovation like inventing the internet. Overall it was an impressive month for innovators in Tennessee.
Kyle