Chicago Startup Project Travel Launches Peerfunding For Students For Educational Travel
Chicago entrepreneur, Jennifer Thomas launches Project Travel to help students peer fund a variety of educational travel missions.
Chicago entrepreneur, Jennifer Thomas launches Project Travel to help students peer fund a variety of educational travel missions.
Highly successful Memphis’ startup accelerator, Zeroto510, announces Summer 2013 class.
By Laura Fenton Brittany Fitzpatrick had to take a deep breath and make the first move. “I’m an introvert,” said Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Mentor.Me. “I do have to make a concerted effort to go out of my comfort zone.” But by taking the initiative, Fitzpatrick has created and formed a team for her
By Laura Fenton Brittany Fitzpatrick had to take a deep breath and make the first move. “I’m an introvert,” said Fitzpatrick, founder and CEO of Mentor.Me. “I do have to make a concerted effort to go out of my comfort zone.” But by taking the initiative, Fitzpatrick has created and formed a team for her
Ever since the first non music related project went on the Kickstarter platform, crowdfunding has grown to new heights. After the JOBS act was passed last year, it became a blistering inferno of new startups, companies and websites. If you were looking for a good crowdfunding solution on Google you would come up with over
That headline is a true testament to the power of the cohort based ZeroTo510 startup accelerator in Memphis Tennessee. Five of the six startups in their recently graduated class received $100,000 or more in follow on funding from MB Ventures and Innova Memphis. Four of the startups received follow on funding to continue acceleration of
If their name means anything at all than Memphis startup WorkForPie should have several walk in freezers worth of pie because they’ve been working really hard… for pie. WorkForPie was a member of the first class at Memphis’ accelerator SeedHatchery. They were also the first startup out of SeedHatchery to raise significant follow on funding.
Memphis is hosting their first official Startup Weekend in four years this Friday through Sunday at Lab Four in Memphis. Over the three day weekend we will see some great ideas turned into startups and hopefully some emerge as actual companies, after all that’s the point behind Startup Weekend events. The 54 hour event kicks
Yaddoog, Good Day spelled backwards, was one of the best startups at 48 Hour Launch this weekend in Memphis. It was a great event overall with a lot of Memphis’ startup community supporting the entrepreneurs and their ideas all weekend long. For first time startup founder Harold Strong, it was a weekend to get the
Lot’s of people came out Sunday night to the final pitch event for LaunchMemphis, SeedHathery and LaunchYourCity’s 48 hour launch event. Graduates of SeedHatchery’s two previous classes were in attendance all weekend long to mentor and support their fellow startups. Also, previous participants in the last 5 48 Hour Launch events were in attendance as
LaunchMemphis, SeedHatchery and LaunchYourCity had over 20 startups pitch on Friday evening to try and secure a spot for development over the weekend at 48 hour launch. The field was great. There were all kinds of different pitches as you can see here at nibletz.com. Here are the four that were chosen by popular vote