Two Memphians who are fairly well known in the local Memphis community found common ground in a passion that the mostly blue collar city shares, the love of basketball. I must admit when Nibletz made the move to Memphis I had no idea how much Memphian’s loved the University of Memphis Tigers. Being from Baltimore
Brittany Fitzpatrick, founder of MentorMe and the other Seed Hatchery startups drew a global audience for Seed Hatchery’s investor day in Memphis last week.
We’ve been tracking the progress of Memphis startup MentorMe. Here’s Brittany Fitzpatrick’s investor day pitch at Seed Hatchery 2013.
Scott Finney and Kenn Gibbs created BetterFed in just 8 weeks during the Seed Hatchery startup accelerator. Here’s Finney pitching his awesome startup bridging farmers and local growers to consumers though technology
Memphis entrepreneur Richard Billings pitches Screwpulp a disruption to the self publishing industry.
Highly successful Memphis’ startup accelerator, Zeroto510, announces Summer 2013 class.
Memphis startup ScrewPulp launches disruptive self publishing platform.
Memphis entrepreneur, Danielle Inez takes her startup, Pink Robin Avenue, from Upstart 48 Hour Launch to Black Enterprise Magazine’s Elevator Pitch Finals.
On Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013, Alexia Tstotsis got some of the more influential names in the tech/vc community to talk about women entrepreneurs and venture capital. David Tisch offered this tidbit in regards to what really pisses him off when VCs are talking to women. Aaref Hilaly (Sequoia) offered this opinion on why
Indy couple Pam & Tom Cooper get their grit and grind on at Memphis startup accelerator Seed Hatchery, for the real benefit of an accelerator.
NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network, closed out their 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis Minnesota Saturday evening. The event brings together NTEN members from across the country who’s companies use technology for the benefit of non profit organizations across the United States and globally. Memphis based Cloud For Good, is one of those technology companies.
Business Insider published a great list this morning of the 25 most influential African American’s in technology. We were very pleased to find that native Memphian Kimberly Bryant, the founder and creator of Black Girls Code, was ranked number 19 on such an important list. Kimberly Bryant is an award winning social entrepreneur, technology junkie,
In 1970 Frederick Wallace Smith embarked on a journey that would change the way that people do business. Smith purchased controlling interest in an aircraft maintenance company called Ark Aviation Sales. In 1971 he started trading used jets and on June 18, 1971 he founded Federal Express. He used a $4 million dollar inheritance (about
60 year old Memphis advertising and PR firm archer>malmo presented their panel “When Bad Names Happen To Good Startups” last Monday at SXSW Interactive. Over 100 people attended the panel discussion and stayed throughout the entire hour long session. archer>malmo Chief Creative Officer Gary Backaus and Senior Copy Writer Justin Dobbs presented the entertaining hour
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