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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

I’ve been flipping homes in Louisville for the past four years now and nothing has made me really inspired by the thought of scaling my operations. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd ! #2- 2- Expanding into Texas. Photo credit: Matt Rostosky. Next year, I am expanding my already successful business into Texas.

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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

Up and Running

It happened last Friday in the semi-final round of the University of Oregon’s New Venture Competition, which was eventually won Saturday by a University of Louisville company named NanoMark Therapuetics. This is a true story. Image: from the New Venture Championship Blog).

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How Technology and Training Fueled One Ad-Based Company’s Growth

ReadWriteStart

Yu and Young have hosted webinars with schools from Syracuse University to the University of Louisville, spoken in front of high school assemblies, and spoken at many universities. BlitzMetrics trains young people through online training systems and university partnerships.

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Separating Regional Economic Development Fact From Fiction

Feld Thoughts

Today I read the following headline in the Boulder Daily Camera: “ Phillips 66 to sell 432-acre campus in Louisville. Bill Ritter on Wednesday revealed that ConocoPhillips has purchased the former StorageTek campus in Louisville.” Phillips 66 pulls the plug on Louisville energy campus. Related articles.

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Turning the microphone over

Startup Lessons Learned

Breonna Taylor : Shortly after midnight on March 13, Louisville police, executing a search warrant, used a battering ram to crash into the apartment of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American emergency room technician. After a brief confrontation, they fired several shots, striking her at least eight times.

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Meet My Hackstar – Cole Morrison

Feld Thoughts

I met him for the first time on my trip in November to Lexington and Louisville, KY and it’s an example of how random good things (in this case – Cole) come back to me from the effort I put out into the world. for which he now serves as the Chief Marketing Officer. He is also working on a new RPG called Project Recreate.

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PressIt, An Easy Way To Convert Original Content Into Merchandise

YoungUpstarts

Louisville, Kentucky-based online retailer of stock and user-customized on demand products CafePress has launched PressIt , a simple and effective way for bloggers or small businesses to monetize their original images and other content, by making it simple to put them on products like t-shirts, mugs and tote bags.