Create, Create, Create: Knoxville Culture and the People Who Make It.
What makes or breaks your favorite city, community — or more importantly — your hometown? I think it’s culture. Culture is what differentiates all the places we travel and enjoy from each other. There are hundreds of professors and thousands of years of research on culture, so I do not claim to be an expert or to get overly […]
A Real-life Entrepreneurs Guide to Getting Customers Part 1: Direct Sales (how it really happens)
For more tips like these and inspiration for business ideas, sign up for our weekly email newsletter! My name is Jonathan Sexton and I have a really cool job. I am the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center, in Knoxville,Tennessee; a small, but very creative and kick-ass city. My job description is simple: create and grow […]
Knoxville Media Spotlight – BigSlate Media
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Code is the New Black…and You’re Invited! (aka Black-Tie Hacker Holiday Party & CodeWorks Demo Day)
Tryptophan Ramble: Quick read edition: I’m hitting a lot of topics this week – new month, new format, new event. If I see any more turkey this week I may become one. But I’d rather have one more Caveman Pop than see another Cyber Monday deal from Amazon; proof that advertising needs to tell a […]
15 Unsung Heroes of the Local Startup Community (and Why I’m So Grateful to Sing Their Praises)
We all saw last week that the Startup Scene in Knoxville is alive, well, and thriving. No single person is responsible for this, or even one organization; it’s the spirit of the creative people in this city that believe something greater is possible here, and even more that Knoxville’s best days lay ahead. In many […]
What Would Global Entrepreneurship Week Be without a Good Ol’ Fashioned Hackathon?
Holy Global Entrepreneurship Week, Batman! And what would GEW be without a good ol’ fashioned hackathon? Our 6 CodeWorks teams are planning to spend the weekend coding their brains out, in preparation of Demo Day on December 17th… and we still have a few spots to fill, so this is an open call to help: […]
Introducing Startup Day Keynote Speaker, Angel Gambino and Moderator Jon Shieber
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Believe in Yourself Knoxville (and Why Startup Day Matters) – by Jonathan Sexton
Knoxville is so full of talent, creativity, and ideas. I’ve always THOUGHT I knew that. Being raised a musician here exposed me to that early on, singers, songwriters, poets, painters, craftsmen (and women) of so many kinds. I also thought for most of my life that’s what creativity was: Art. And it is. But Startup […]
Go Big. Start Here: A Guest Blog by Gareth Aye
MathLeap is a web-based platform that reimagines math assessments for students and teachers. It all started with a campus job I had grading physics problem sets as a Middlebury College undergraduate. I graded hundreds of assignments every week totaling thousands of assignments over my college career, and I never found the time to give […]
Knoxville Media Spotlight – NewsBreak: A Guest Blog by Kelly Hastings
In this video, watch Bob Bradley’s Power Pitch from Startup Day 2014, and then segue into his excellent presentation about NewsBreak and its Knoxville roots. Enjoy! How do you spend the five minutes it takes to fill up at the pump? Washing your car, reflecting on your day’s activities, or just idly standing? Now, thanks […]
