By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA Applications are now open for the first “Ballard Innovation Award,” honoring teknovation.biz’s own Editor and Publisher. The winner of the award will receive $50,000 in investment capital and in-kind services from PYA, the power behind the daily newsfeed that celebrates its

A person who has worked tirelessly to champion the State of Tennessee’s matching program for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award recipients has now been recognized for those efforts by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Abby Trotter, Partner at Hall Strategies in Nashville

The “2021 TN Procurement Opportunities Conference” is set for January 26. Hosted by the Tennessee Procurement Technical Assistance Center at the University of Tennessee (UT), the virtual event will feature Judy Bradt, Amazon #1 Bestselling Author and Speaker, whose topic is “Win your meeting and get invited back!” In addition,

“LaunchIt,” the University of Louisville’s 10-week entrepreneurial bootcamp, has taken its training online and expanded to serve innovators and university researchers throughout the Midwest and Southeast. Historically, “LaunchIt” training had been done in person in downtown Louisville, but in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, program leaders took the bootcamp

In the closing weeks of 2020, NFX, a San Francisco-based venture firm, surveyed 526 Founders and investors in the start-up community about their predictions and sentiments for the 2021 year ahead. Their answers, as detailed in this recent email, provide an inside view to what private companies and investors really

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final article in a two-part series focused on a trend in local commercial real estate that a 40-year veteran of the sector has never seen.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Maribel Koella, Owner, Founder and Principal Broker at NAI Koella|RM Moore, has followed

The U.S. Small Business Administration has officially launched Ascent, a first-of-its-kind, free digital eLearning platform geared to help women entrepreneurs grow and expand their businesses. According to the announcement, “Ascent has valuable content such as tips on preparing and recovering from disasters, strategic marketing and business financial strategy development.”

Here’s a great example of how corporate executives can bring their years of expertise to helping address the issue of inclusion and participation, one of the gaps identified in the recent Techstars assessment of the Knoxville region’s innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem. Bright Hope Capital LLC is a new investment firm

Pending the signature of the state’s Governor which may have happened by the time this article posts, an initiative described as “a game-changing opportunity for early stage and emerging growth companies in New Jersey” will be much closer to reality. The legislature in that state has sent Governor Phil Murphy

A Richmond, VA start-up is trying to help restaurants be more efficient and also save money through an online ordering platform that enables them to compare prices and place orders from multiple distributors. Supply Cannon‘s Co-Founders describe the product as “the ordering of the future” and say it can reduce ordering time