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Speakers seemed to strike genuinely responsive chords among the audience.

A fresh look at Nashville innovation-entrepreneurship ecosystem, and specifically EC ties, seems in-the-offing.

[Updated] Entrepreneurship, Engagement, Education add momentum to Fisk and partners' innovation.

Edtech and healthcare SaaS veteran with stripes in credentialing, training and other businesses offers advice.

Early-growth startup with EBITDA enters third phase of life amid growing environmental concerns.

Challenges and opportunities statewide, drive to position two new regional entrepreneur centers.

Fintech entrepreneur Eric Satz (AltoIRA) is one of 60+ VCs, entrepreneurs, advisors playing 3686 Festival roles.

Five TN cities home to 10 Engine candidates seeking to strengthen region's entrepreneurship, innovation ecosystem.

[Updated] Co-founders seek $2MM, as VU OwenGSM, VU The Wond'ry and others seem to recognize startup's promise.

Commentary: Does list of TN gains in 2021 reflect actual lack of 'major' entrepreneurial achievements?

[updated] Build Back Better funding via EDA for ventures, biomaking, cyber and more could lift Nashville region's lifesciences ecosystem.

[Updated] Chairman says challenges led board to take 'different direction', national search will be mounted for next in a lengthening line of CEOs.

Entrepreneurial and economic development allies have crafted roadmap to Rural development leadership.

VU-propelled startup, AI for VC, MB Ventures, Claritas, Harbert, McWhorter, lifesci fund, ed tech, SBIR, and more...

Leader, entrepreneur and investigator of economic ecosystems named first Entrepreneur in Residence of UTC-CIE.

Healthcare, transportation, mobility among targets of new Chattanooga Regional Catalyst Fund

City-performance research may help state's flywheels pursue critical mass in key industries.

Dozens of news items on startups, capital raises, executive moves and business resources.

[updated] Capital raises, executive moves, venture plays, true startups and more.

Music innovation push, startup scouts, fintech, Y-Combinator entrant, Angel Tax Credit takers, partnerships, exec moves, resources + more...

[updated] Convenors say tracks are clear for OZ-advantaged real estate and operating business developments.

Launch Tennessee, Electro-Active, Dynamo, CET, EPIcenter, and more updated in today's roundup.

Meetups blend LaunchTN mission, Kauffman funding, Engine advocate, constituents getting to know legislators.

[Updated] Here is the fullest rundown you'll find on Awards entrants, judges and related matters ahead of this November event.

VNC asked EC Chair Emeritus and Search Committee chair to share an update on the search process.

Nashville entrepreneur's business and social-impact lenses are focused on venture gap.

HealthStream ties-up with early-growth cos, Alphabet-backed Clover hits Music City, a startup's $6MM raise, money for June Medical, HempTenn, BeastBrands, SmartRIA, and much more.

Entrepreneurship, innovation, social impact, blockchain, networking are threads running in parallel.

With Black-owned ventures front and center, CEO shares playbook for forging just, inclusive, growing regional economy.

Lee Cabinet choices affect ECD, LaunchTN, others..plus updates on capital raises.

[Updated] Birmingham among alternatives, as some Women, Blacks and other minorities report struggling for traction.

Months and years of ecosystem development might help make Chattanooga an 'overnight' entrepreneurial success.

[updated] VU drew her to Nashville, where she cut her entrepreneurial teeth in e-commerce.

Regardless of grant outcomes, these strategic proposals warrant scrutiny across Tennessee.

Finalists are to pitch Aug. 28 during 36|86 event in Nashville.

[updated] Ten startups competed, one stood out. Here are highlights and the list of judges.

Money, moves and management in 30 telegraphic updates from MidTn and State ecosystems.

CEO Charlie Brock unveils robust plan for LTN advancement, but may be facing budget headwinds.

Startup clients may migrate to either of the incubators - Nashville gets a net incubator increase.

Current listing.

Resources are proliferating in Nashville's entrepreneurial ecosystem, so the EC makes strategic shift.

Years after his initial appeal, Waller IP attorney sticks to his guns.

[updated] Former XMi executive holds minority stake, in wake of entrepreneur Shmerling's peel-off.

Former BioMimetic Therapeutics executives at center of new initiatives.

About two-dozen items ranging from capital raises, bankruptcy to tech transfer.

Less than a month into the mission, new Center director targets numerous objectives.

More than 40 speakers, panelists, startup pitchers at several venues.

A new platoon of civic-minded influentials picks-up the challenge.

Research and services for VNC Members and prospective Members focused on Nashville and the Mid-South.

Tennessee Technology Development Corporation (TTDC), aka Launch Tennessee, fills posts.

Researchers need Nashvillians' help in assay of spin-off activity in Nashville area.

[updated] A baker's dozen oughta-reads on startups and capital from around the state.

VTC Innovation seeds begin sprouting, as first startups recruited.

Developers studying HudsonAlpha and other innovation centers.

[Sale updated] Entrepreneur says youth need to develop 'hunger' to accomplish goals.

With EC as primary Kauffman liaison, EC and others will spur local entrepreneurial innovation.

New services for Veterans who aim to become entrepreneurial troopers may lie ahead.

Serial entrepreneur says he's preparing to 'chase his passion' for venture.

Charlie Brock shares his topmost objectives, and we review a bit of the agenda.

[Updated] Who knows, such relatively stealthy encounters may be underway, daily.

[Updated with IDS sale] California Corrections confirms major edtech contract for early-stage company.

Bio veteran Jim Monsor leads pilot effort to deepen TN's startup resources

Cobb, Clabaugh brought ideas and energy to the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.

Entrepreneurship, events and attracting capital may have revved-up. Tech transfer? Not so much.

A keen observer of America's startup and Venture landscape took a few minutes with VNC.

VTC Universities in Cookeville, Murfreesboro, Nashville plan to partner to serve industry, entrepreneurs

[Updated] Pando litigation. Refocused 36|86 event will convene in June, as will Pandoland

VTC: Effort continues to build LifeSciences to critical mass and influence in TN

Updates on Endorsee, Sagents, Tandum, EO Nashville, PBM365, Back Porch Group, Exile.

Sharing our perspective on the challenges associated with covering the next potential TNInvestco debate.

VTC CCE director brings lessons learned from his own startups, adjusted for the academic setting.

Doug Schmidt is but one of the sparkplugs firing the school's innovation and commercialization push.

VTC Dough Speight seems headed toward the QC FinTech Accelerator

Index delivers composite image of state's economic development, innovation status

The calendar's chock-a-block, but there'll be room for this one

Fate of business, education and innovation campus project remains uncertain.

Council doubles-down on mail-order institutional pharmacy startup

[updated] Goodman addition adds heft to ambitious Lipcomb plans for its business, entrepreneurial offerings

Streamweaver 'stealth' no more...Unconference events... ECD budget comments... much more in this regional roundup

Venture Incite's Y12 ties, capital raises, a TNInvestco, accelerators blossom and news statewide

[Updated capraise] Nashville will be testbed for service matching users with opps to 'work, play, do good'

Remember when things used to slow down for Summer? Tennessee's venture scene seems busier than ever

Nashville VC's Oak Ridge affiliate has focused one of its startups on commercializing 'the Moses effect'

New VC council forming, less TNInvestco info, Marcums' Tullhoma venture Launch Pad and news here and elsewhere

JumpStart's 'brightest'... EmergeMemphis' 45 startups.. Haslam-Hagerty gameplan... David Wilds in cap raise.. Blackstone venture aid...

Get that extra cup o' coffee, you'll need it for news from McWhorter, Council Ventures, Vaden Landers and more.

VU porfolio co goes elsewhere, TNInvestco company, startup ecosystem spreads, PdCamp, ORNL, MyOutdoorTV and more

Our latest roundup of VU searches, capital raises, marketing pushes, digital music, tech commercialization and more

New ECD appointee, TNInvestco clone idea, updates on Silicon Ranch, JumpStart, Bizen, entrepreneurship and much more

More luminaries are getting onboard the Entrepreneur Ecosystem bandwagon, this time rolling-out a proven startup breeding concept

The news coincides with launch of the Obama Administration's StartUP America program in the U.S. and helps fulfill Solidus' TNInvestco strategy.

Lots of stuff bubbling-up from Genera, Skoodat, Satz (at left), plus the Cable and Broadcast folks, and more.

Nashville Capital Network has plans, that Amazon deal, a new incubator in Bradley and more.

Education Networks..StudioNow..Biotechies...Scripps Interactive..Aegis Health... VU's science reports, and more..

TTDC forum, TNInvestco website, VU tech transfer, PureSafety, Tricycle, Memphis leadership, and more...

TSU, Vanderbilt, and local business and government may seek to replicate Memphis' initiative in the Capital City

At left, Fran Marcum

Vanderbilt institute gets a key role with ORNL and UT, in scenario for improving university collaboration and state's entrepreneurism

[updated] Though their faith in the future may vary, retained executive-search professionals are investing energy in Bio and related fields.

[Updated] The Nashville Area Chamber and its allies are unleashing an Entrepreneur Center, brand and marketing campaign

This progressive digital-media community aims to do well, by doing good, it seems, and it has a couple thousand members to prove it.

A desire to master a niche in healthcare technology, patience and an engineer's eye for detail may produce a leader on 3rd Avenue

Keep an eye on what your 'constrained' customer must buy, suggests E&Y exec for the hemisphere.

Jacobson's new digs, Universal Robotics' placement, WSJ taps local analysts, Solidus' stake, antitrust cautions and more...

Local Angel net and Mercury Labs shoulder high-profile assignments for the state's tech-driven economic development leader

NCN's latest investment... Luminetx startup possibly touched by SEC-accused Stanford Financial...Consensus Point and NHI get new officers... ORNL exec goes corporate... Stimulus roundup...

With former VC hired to lead program, grant for entrepreneurship helps flesh-out tech-development ecosystem

Future lawyers, docs and business leaders, as well as life-sciences students, are invited to imagine new bio businesses for Tennessee Biotechnology Association's annual bizplan competition

While swearing-off another tech startup, this mid-life entrepreneur keeps finding new ventures and hobbies to love

Digital Nashville initiative believes it can make a difference in breeding community for folks in interactive media, streaming, design, other fields.

These Nashville entrepreneurs are celebrating this morning, but we won't see another batch of innovators til 2010. Other competitions at UT and FedEx Institute are about all there are in the state, at the moment.

Co-founder predicts he'll soon be back in saddle of another IT firm