From Johnson City: A wife and husband team – she’s an Occupational Therapist, he’s a Neuroscientist – won the $10,000 top prize during the sixth annual edition of “The Pitch”…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Four local entrepreneurs shared their very different start-up journeys during Wednesday night’s “Made for Knoxville LIVE” event at the River & Rail Theatre…
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a series spotlighting participants in the most recent edition of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center’s “What’s the Big Idea?” pitch competition.) By Tom…
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Good news came yesterday for start-ups in the security, national defense and related sectors. SYN Ventures, a venture capital (VC) firm that has already invested in one Nashville start-up and…
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It’s called “America’s Seed Fund” for a key reason: funding that start-ups receive through the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are the…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “No one can serve two masters . . . both God and money,” says Andrew Stadtlander, one of the three co-founders of a…
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The third article in our series sharing the cautionary advice of investors to their portfolio companies comes from Ken Woody, President of Innova. Previous articles have spotlighted the thoughts of…
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As noted in this post from yesterday, Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley-based start-up accelerator that has backed more than 3,000 new ventures around the world, issued an advisory to its…
