Category Archives: Start-up/entrepreneurism

(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 [...]

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 [...]

Would you like to use your tech, leadership or other talents to help Louisville create solutions for municipal problems? Maybe even in a single day? Well, mark Sat., June 1 off on your calendar. A National Day of Civic Hacking will take place around the nation on June 1 and June 2. Cities all around [...]

GLI’s EnterpriseCorp, the University of Louisville’s entrepreneurship program and Republic Bank  have another 2013 Launchpad Lecture Series event scheduled for Thursday. Student led entrepreneurship is one of the fastest growing segments of new company formation. With the willingness to take on risk, students and recent graduates are producing some of the world’s leading innovation, according [...]

(Author’s note: actual headcount today was 29 people with five new faces. Thanks, Kelby Price!) This week we welcomed at least four new faces to #OpenCoffeeLou; enough new faces that we went around and did reintroduced ourselves. I didn’t take count, but I’d estimate that there were around 24 people in attendance. While we’ve had [...]

“Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It’s your task to figure out what that future history will be.” – Peter Thiel The Thiel Foundation just announced the 2013 class of entrepreneurs: 20 fellows,  ages 17 to 20 from all over [...]

Welcome to the May 13 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 [...]