WeCounsel a graduate of GigTank’s latest cohort has secured a $600,000 investment from UltraGroup, a Chattanooga based healthcare company, and not your typical startup investor.
The Wednesday morning coffee and networking event called 1 Million Cups, created by the Kauffman Foundation, has added its 10th location and its first northeastern city. It’s not New York, Providence, or Boston. Instead, the latest community to join the 1 Million Cups family is on the Georgetown, Delaware, campus of Delaware Technical Community College. Georgetown, Delaware,
Stacey Ferreira, the co-founder of MySocialCloud tells her entrepreneurial story from private catholic high school, to meeting Richard Branson, getting $1million dollar investment and acquisition in this story and video.
Startup accelerators are great,] because they give young growing startups capital, access to resources, mentors, and hopefully investors. But they aren’t always rosy. In fact, if all your days in an accelerator program are rosy, then you need to run like hell from that accelerator program. On our sneaker-strapped startup road trip, we’ve had the
My favorite thing about working in startups? Companies like PlanG. We are inundated with apps, social networks, and games that seem to make little real difference in the world. It’s often hard to identify the real problem companies are solving, even if those companies are creating something fun. PlanG isn’t like that. Instead, PlanG is
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.
Chattanooga’s GigTank accelerator kicked off their second annual demo day on Tuesday afternoon. In perusing the startups in the second cohort before they took the stage, we quickly realized that startups from around the world were accepted into the program in the first GigCity in the U.S. (sorry Kansas City). GigTank attracted startups from Bulgaria
Twelve Cities founder and Thiel Foundation Under 20 Community Liason shares three important themes that exist in great cities at an event in Chattanooga Monday night as part of the Gig Tank festivities. 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
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