December Mentor Spotlight: Cliff Caudill
Everyone meet Cliff Caudill! Cliff has extensive experience in product development for John Deere and currently serves in a dual capacity as a KEC and SCORE Mentor. Check out Cliff’s answers to our questions below. Cliff is offering multiple opportunities to sign up for office hours, so make sure to sign up today! What is […]
November Mentor Spotlight: Haseeb Qureshi
Haseeb is a Tennessee licensed attorney and technical founder with roots in music and design. He is currently an Attorney at Morehous Legal Group, where he counsels and advises numerous businesses. He is also the CEO of Audiohand, a music technology startup specializing in crowdsourcing audio. This week we asked Haseeb a series of questions about his experience as […]
How to Survive a Busy Season
This is a guest post by Origami Day’s Samantha Lane. Many of us have busy lives year-round, but almost all of us have busy seasons. Whether this is a month of madness in your life or the entire holiday season, it’s likely that you will have a period of more intense demands on your […]
36|86 Is Just Around the Corner!
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]Why You Should Attend 36|86 2018 Held annually in Nashville, 36/86 Entrepreneurship Festival gives Tennessee’s best and brightest a place to learn and make the connections necessary to grow or start their businesses. It’s the perfect opportunity to hear from some of […]
SWARM Wins What’s The Big Idea 2018
What’s The Big Idea 48-Hour Launch: Congratulations SWARM! Well folks, one of our favorite weekends of the year has come and gone. The KEC team is so proud of all of the awesome work done this weekend by the six teams and their mentors. On Friday evening all of the teams gathered together […]
Finalists Selected for What’s the Big Idea 48-Hour Launch
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default”][vc_column_text]Six finalists have been selected from a record pool of nearly 100 applicants to compete in the What’s the Big Idea 48-Hour Launch annual entrepreneurial competition. They will have only two days to kick start their own businesses during an intense startup […]
New Series: From Follower to Friend
Join us for KEC’s first “From Follower To Friend” series! This three-part series is the perfect seminar for beginner bloggers and influencers in the Knoxville area! You will learn about the most important skills an aspiring blogger needs to have from some of the top blogging experts in Knoxville and Nashville. Each session […]
One Year and $10,000 Later, (how “Big Idea” changed my life) by Douglas McDaniel
Farm Spotter: 2016 What’s the Big Idea Competition By Douglas McDaniel, CTO, Farmspotter Click here to apply to What’s The Big idea 2018 Now! (Deadline is March 11, 2018.) It was a cold night in December 2015, and I was heading out of town on business, but first meeting my friend Jason Hanna for a […]
How to Choose the Right Target Keywords
This is a guest post written by SEO expert and digital marketing consultant, Frank Ramey. You can learn more from Frank by signing up for his SEO Crash Course at KEC here. Knowing the right keywords to target on your website is a critical step to search engine optimization. Before you can begin optimizing […]
3 Things a Knoxville Entrepreneur Needs to Know about Order Fulfillment
This is a guest post written by Knoxville-based Red Stag Fulfillment. Entrepreneurs and Fulfillment How many steps does it take from someone clicking a “buy” button on your website to them getting the product in their hands? For the customer, it’s about three: purchase, ship, get. For you, it’s plenty more: record order; process payment; […]
