Category Archives: Business

The Louisville Digital Association has serious connections … serious enough to bring together major policy makers for a big event Wednesday night, May 22. Louisville social-media pioneer and LDA co-founder Jason Falls will return to the LDA podium to gavel a meeting designed to answer the question, “What does Louisville need more of in tech [...]

Welcome to the May 20 edition of the top-secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing, with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days and hours. A few of which are NOT double-verified as with our daily reporting. This is the news about business [...]

We like to read what national media are saying about our city because, really, we’re reading about ourselves, right? Truthfully, we don’t read National Journal as much as we should because the sister magazine of The Atlantic is more focused on issues  inside the Beltway such as national security. But this is cool. National Journal [...]

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, [...]