By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA With the exception of one person, all of the entrepreneurial teams participating in the latest cohort of I-Corps South had completed an average of five customer discovery conversations at the midway point of the two-week program when they had to report at a

An app first unveiled in February at the annual “What’s the Big Idea 48-Hour Launch” event in Knoxville and described in this follow-up article on teknovation.biz is taking the next step with a beta test. Lauren McNamara, who conceived the idea for DigDog, held a launch party on Thursday night

Two locally-based venture capitalists will be the featured speakers at the next “Bunker Brews Knoxville Meet-up” scheduled for Thursday night. Ken Woody, President of Innova Memphis, and Grady Vanderhoofven, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Three Roots Capital, will speak on the topic of “Venture Capital – Is It Right

A well-known name in the statewide entrepreneurial ecosystem has a new gig. Jim Stefansic, a former Director of Commercialization for Launch Tennessee, has been named Development Director at Cumberland Emerging Technologies (CET), a Nashville-based organization with a mission to bring biomedical technologies and products conceived at Vanderbilt University and other

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and another UT, in this case The University of Toledo, have entered into a memorandum of understanding for collaborative research into the advanced design and manufacturing of high-strength, intelligent, lightweight materials for use by the automotive sector. According to this news release, the partnership will

There was no shortage of ideas advanced during Wednesday evening’s finale for the fall edition of the “Vol Court Speaker Series and Pitch Competition” at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville. Hosted by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Haslam College of Business, the event featured 90-second

Blount County’s new shared space community is now officially open and accepting co-workers. After a “soft opening” a little more than three weeks ago, the Sky City facility at 429 South Washington Street includes four private offices ($500 a month), a conference room, an area with dedicated work stations available

Nashville’s Global Action Platform has announced an event next week focused on technology commercialization. The “Tennessee University-Business Showcase” is set for 3:30 to 5 p.m. CDT October 15 at the offices of the Waller law firm, 511 Union Street, Floor 26. Jennifer Caldwell, Group Leader for Technology Commercialization at Oak

Add another national recognition to the reputation that the mother and daughter team at Mixtroz has garnered. Kerry Schrader and Ashlee Ammons have been recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as among slightly more than 50 female founders who are reshaping the business world. The announcement of the group was made earlier this week.

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA They share a mutual interest in artificial intelligence (AI) even though their professional backgrounds are very different. John Sharpe, who divides his time between Knoxville and Nashville, has an entrepreneurial bent with a specialization in human resources. Among his several ventures over the