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[US] [Event] Launch Tennessee’s Southland Conference To Highlight South’s Top 50 Startup Companies

YoungUpstarts

California’s Silicon Valley and New York tend to hog the headlines as America’s most lauded hotbeds of innovation, but Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN) wants to prove that the country’s South also features plenty of innovative startups that can challenge for dominance in the global marketplace.

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Memphis-based Start Co. To Present 16 Startups At Demo Day

YoungUpstarts

Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit venture development organization Start Co. “I’m looking forward to seeing this cohort of early stage entrepreneurs take the stage at the Orpheum Theater to showcase their work and share their experiences from the Summer of Acceleration with the community,” shared Mathews.

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How to Get Early Customers to Respond to Your Cold Emails

www.ashmaurya.com

Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions. “We both went to Tennessee!” Use FollowerWonk to get a feel for their followers. Are you a Wolverine?”

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New Microfund Launched

The Entrepreneurial Mind

Solidus Company announced today the formation of a microfund to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. JumpStart Foundry will focus on very early-stage concepts.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. in idea-stage and side-hustle founders using a Convertible Income Share Agreement, or CISA. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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Episode 14: Be Your Own Boss, Restaurant Owners, and Friendliest Cities for Businesses | The Bcast

Up and Running

That’s probably one of the biggest challenges, and one of the things you should do in the early stages. Number six was Nashville Tennessee, great job, but you were edged out by Knoxville. Peter: Oh, Knoxville Tennessee, also. Jonathan: I don’t know is there’s any instate rivalry between Knoxville and Nashville?

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Lessons from the Front Line of a Microfund

The Entrepreneurial Mind

The goal was to support local entrepreneurs and to help accelerate the growth of start-ups in the Middle Tennessee area. Like most microfunds, JumpStart Foundry (JSF) has focused on very early-stage concepts. Jumpstart Foundry was started by a local venture firm called Solidus Company.