Category Archives: Business

Former Brown-Forman exec Dave Dafoe, who founded Flavorman all those years ago, has yet another hit on his hands. The New York Times has a post on Defoe’s relatively new Distilled Spirits Epicenter and its Moonshine University. IL writes about DSE about every other day. But to the reporter’s credit, the Times post drives home [...]

Who’s connecting the dots on Louisville’s fluid business scene? That’s our job at the People Watch section. (Which is not all that easy considering the number of startups coming and going, along with economic-development changes.) People Watch is a quick and painless curation of news releases about big changes at Louisville businesses and professional services [...]

(Author’s note: I contributed to this Kickstarter and appeared briefly in the Kickstarter video for Louisville.AM. Tom Cottingham, Insider Louisville’s CEO, and I appeared on an episode of Vonderheide’s podcast, “Startup.”) The news came on Oaks Day. In the wake of SummitMedia acquiring four Cox Media Louisville radio stations, Dan Vonderheide, Digital Sales Manager at [...]

The announcement that Bobby Ferreri was stepping down from his position as the executive director of GLI’s Enterprise Corp was made internally and to GLI’s Board of Directors and stakeholders last week. As we told you this morning, the first truly “public” announcement of the news came at this morning’s Launchpad Lecture Series. In a [...]

It was  precedent versus a neighborhood aversion to scale, and the neighborhood won. The Louisville Metro Planning commission has voted to deny developer Kevin Cogan’s plan to build the 17-story Willow Grande luxury apartment tower in the heart of the Cherokee Triangle. Cogan, president of Jefferson Development Group, asked the commission to rezone The Bordeaux [...]

Aaron Marshall calls himself “a Louisville success story.” Though once you read this post, you may see Marshall as the new paradigm for how we define Louisville’s role in the brave new digital world: a place that’s a way station for talent looking for a place to start … but not necessarily to stay. After eight years here, [...]

(Author’s note: this post was updated at 5:29 p.m. to correct the name of Bobby Ferreri’s new law firm. It is Ferreri Partners.) It’s new enough news that Tendai Charasika still hasn’t updated his Linked In profile. This morning at the Launchpad Lecture series featuring Alex Frommeyer of Beam Technologies, it was announced that Bobby [...]

By Stephan Gohmann, Bluegrass Institute Out of the 50 U.S. states and 10 Canadian provinces, Kentucky ranks No. 56 in economic freedom, as measured by the Frasier Institute’s Economic Freedom of North America Index. Among Kentucky’s surrounding states, only West Virginia ranks lower. The index is a measurement of the size of government, amount of taxation and [...]

The Facebook page for “We’re Cool” was launched on May 10 and already has 316 likes. Its description is charmingly modest: We’re Cool was created in 2013 by Richard Hudgins of Louisville, Kentucky. No one special. Just a guy who was fed up with people that treated others poorly. No one special? We’d beg to [...]