startups
Big awards party tomorrow for local entrepreneurs: Is Knoxville an ideal location for budding entrepreneurship?
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All are welcome to attend the First Annual Knoxville Overground Startup Awards ceremony at the World Grotto in Market Square tomorrow on the 19th. The doors open at 6PM and the ceremony for 13 award-winning startups starts at 7PM. Raffle prizes are being given out after that.
NTC: How To Secure Funding
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I went to the Nashville Technology Council’s roundtable on Venture Capital tonight. (see Venture Capitalists Reveal: How to secure Funding).
What the Metallica Buzz Says About the Industry
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In the early part of the decade, many people thought Metallica was doomed. But Metallica's activism against the original Napster has not harmed its career. Its decision to keep its songs off iTunes for many years has not harmed its career.
Local entrepreneurial “ecosystem” needs a boost
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Last week, I quoted NBJ Editor Lance Williams as saying that Nashville needs to do a better job connecting its capital with its entrepreneurial community. At least one local venture capitalist, John Chadwick, agrees.
Things I learned at the Nashville Geek Breakfast
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Another fourth Thursday, another fun Nashville Geek Breakfast. Here are a few things I didn’t know before I darkened the door at Noshville this morning:
A Parade of Contenders
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There is a growing number of online startups catering to independent musicians and searching for successful alternatives to the record label model. And the money continues to flow. But it will be a natural process of evolution for some of these startups to wither away. There will be too much money backing too many companies making too little revenue from too many unpopular artists.
Thoughts on Nashville as a Tech Center
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- Community
- Technology
- billing applications
- bloggers
- changing jobs
- class citizens
- existence
- flip side
- geeks
- information revolution
- kind of technology
- leaps and bounds
- local network
- medical billing
- middle managers
- milt
- nashville
- programmers
- startups
- technology council
- technology culture
- technology groups
It seems like there are a blue million technology groups in Nashville these days and I love it. There is also lots of talk today about all of the different pieces and how they fit together. This is a post about how I see it.
links for 2008-05-26
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PR Secrets for Startups | TechCrunch.com
Observation: I think these are good “secrets” that will also work for companies that are way past the startup phase.
Regardless of Outage, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Still Rocks
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Although we were directly affected by the two hour outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS), it still wasn’t the end of the world. I read several blog entries and comments about “not putting all of your eggs in one basket” and “how cloud computing was unreliable.” However, what other baskets should I put my eggs in, and how would that make my website or Web application more reliable?



