(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a two-part series spotlighting one of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge region’s serial entrepreneurs. Part 1 provides an update on the progress that Vig…
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An announcement this week was good news for a Knoxville area start-up. “General Graphene is pleased to announce that we have received a funding commitment from Graphite India Limited for…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Vig Sherrill is always the upbeat entrepreneur, but he was particularly pumped-up when we caught-up with him recently to get an update on…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, Pershing Yoakley & Associates, P.C. What a way to celebrate local entrepreneurship and put an exclamation point on the third annual “Start-up Day Knoxville.”…
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Media reports from North Carolina on Wednesday night said that Oak Ridge-based General Graphene won yesterday’s “Charlotte Venture Challenge” (CVC). We have not made contact with General Graphene’s Vig Sherrill yet,…
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By Tom Ballard, Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Initiatives, Pershing Yoakley & Associates, P.C. Oak Ridge-based General Graphene is one of 30 start-ups that will be presenting at next week’s…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA If you doubted the emerging importance of graphene, a material first isolated and described by scientists 13 years ago, the number of people who…