Louisville.AM: Dan Vonderheide launches a new home for Louisville-centric...
(Author’s note: I contributed to this Kickstarter and appeared briefly in the Kickstarter video for Louisville.AM. Tom Cottingham, Insider Louisville’s CEO, and I appeared on an episode of...
View ArticleVelocity SI announces its first class of 5 startups for summer accelerator...
Velocity SI, the Jefferson-based business accelorator right across the Second Street Bridge, has announced its class of five startups for its inaugural program. Two local businesses and three...
View ArticleEcon-dev czar Ted Smith at LDA's tech confab: 'Louisville has to stop...
It was one of more entertaining Louisville Digital Association events in recent memory. LDA co-founder and social media pioneer Jason Falls opened LDA’s monthly meeting last night at iHub with a...
View ArticleEnterpriseCorp and Forest Giant create ‘Startup Ambassadors’: Zack Pennington...
When Brad Feld visited the region last fall, OpenCoffee was born. Three months after Ben Yoskovitz’s visit, Louisville has a brand new Startup Ambassadors program. At this week’s OpenCoffee, Chris...
View ArticleRed e App integrates with Box: allows hourly employees to unlock Box with...
This week our NuLu neighbors Red e App made a big announcement. The enterprise communications network for non-desk workforces announced that it now features integration with Box. Box is a file storage...
View ArticleStartup Weekend diary: Photo concept Pivotal wins on focus, market validation
Louisville’s entrepreneurial community got a kick in the pants this past Startup Weekend, which ran Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The three-day event was held at Louisville’s Nucleus Innovation Park, on...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 43: Happy JOBS Act day! Equity crowdfunding experts fill us in...
Since the Invest Georgia Exemption passed in 2011, Georgia has been ahead of the curve when it comes to equity crowdfunding. On the day that the JOBS Act goes into effect, opening the general door to...
View ArticlePivotal founder, Startup Weekend winner Keith Warren: When does an idea...
“I’m going after moms who are from 25 to 50 years old,” says Keith Warren. “They’re the keeper of memories.” In Warren’s world this means moms take the time to organize the hundreds of digital photos...
View ArticleGE, EnterpriseCorp and Louisville Metro set stage for historic engagement...
(Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part post about GE’s Entrepreneur Open House. The second installment will include more of the specific areas of innovation and pain points discussed by GE...
View Article‘Staying engaged’ with AJ Agrawal and Eghosa Aihie: New product, new funds...
Last we heard from AJ Agrawal and Eghosa Aihie of GreekPull, they were packing up their company after their stint at the Velocity accelerator program and figuring out next steps. So we decided to check...
View ArticleXLerateHealth Demo Day celebrates first cohort of six health-tech companies
Dapper in Halloween colors, Bob Saunders chairman of XLerateHealth, opened the Demo Day for the first cohort at XLerateHealth. (Saunders later explained when they picked the colors for the...
View ArticleVogt Award’s Demo Day: Hardware-focused startups compete for up to $100,000
We’ve seen some of these startups before. Babylocity LLC won Lexington’s 5Across competition in April. Liberate Medical just graduated from the XLerateHealth healthcare accelerator program. But based...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 52: Louisville team wins Lexington Startup Weekend: ‘Encourage...
Today’s Open Coffee started as a moderator-less meeting, but when Daniel Johnsen and Charles Buddeke were asked to re-cap their experience at this past weekend’s Startup Weekend in Lexington, we...
View ArticleDon’t worry, there’s a safe word: Camp Darkwood will be a sleepaway camp with...
Did you know that a long, long time ago, there was a cult that lived in the woods by Camp Piamingo? This cult was dedicated to opening a portal to another dimension so they could bring monsters and...
View ArticleVelocity accelerator program announces second cohort of startups
Velocity’s second class of startups doubles down on local companies. The first cohort included two Kentuckiana startups — Collabra and Large Insights. This class, which begins the program on Jan. 6,...
View ArticlePRG Investments ends 2013 with multiple deals, enters 2014 with new markets,...
Louisville-based PRG Investments has serious momentum going into 2014 as the broker for Signature Point and Rivers Landing, two stalled pre-Great Recession developments. (See related post here.) But...
View ArticleUniversity of Kentucky’s iNET encouraging commercialization of university...
Early on Saturday’s Entrepreneur Immersion Field Trip to Lexington, Mayor Jim Gray said Lexington is “way behind other university cities when it comes to startups,” a trend the city as a whole needs to...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 58 preview: Elizabeth Rounsavall on investments and investors
Lots of small businesses launch successfully without any outside investors — often the founders fund the business themselves until it becomes cash flow positive. In other cases, friends and family chip...
View ArticleTNG Pharmaceuticals announces $4.6 million ‘Series A Preferred Stock’ financing
At the end of 2013, when we asked GLI EnterpriseCorps Executive Director Tendai Charasika about some of the big startup success stories of 2013, he said TNG Pharmaceuticals had just had a “banner...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 43: Happy JOBS Act day! Equity crowdfunding experts fill us in...
Since the Invest Georgia Exemption passed in 2011, Georgia has been ahead of the curve when it comes to equity crowdfunding. On the day that the JOBS Act goes into effect, opening the general door to...
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