Global Entrepreneurship Week in Nashville
Posted on November 16, 2009 at 1:49 pmNashville loves its entrepreneurs. For Global Entrepreneurship Week, the new Nashville Entrepreneur Center is releasing a new I Am Music City video every day on its site, starting today with Mark Montgomery. For a full listing of GEW events this week, check out the Entrepreneur Center’s calendar.
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Joe Freedman is launching companies again
Posted on October 16, 2009 at 8:17 amApparently seeking to claim once and for all the title of Nashville’s serial-est entrepreneur, Joe Freedman tells Milt Capps about three new ventures in the legal services arena. And he’s not afraid to say where he doesn’t expect to snare funding for them.
He said his professional networks in New York City, Los Angeles and elsewhere make it much easier for him to raise money in those cities than in Nashville, where investors are “so healthcare-ingrained,” not familiar with software-as-a-service (SaaS) startups, and “too damn nice” to give you a quick No, when they’ve made their decision.
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Beazer exec goes solo
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 1:26 pmDavid Hughes, Beazer’s Nashville division president and a 27-year company veteran, will leave his role at the end of the month to launch his own home building venture.
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Small biz a little more upbeat
Posted on September 8, 2009 at 9:19 amThe NFIB’s monthly small-business survey portrays the nation’s entrepreneurs as being slightly more optimistic than earlier this summer, but not yet ready to begin hiring again.
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Making room for entrepreneurs
Posted on August 4, 2009 at 1:56 pmOffice Suites Plus, which operates local buildings in Brentwood and Cool Springs, is giving free space to professionals recently laid off and looking for work.
“It is a tough time to be in business and even tougher to be without a job. This is one small way we can use our resources to help some get back on their feet.”
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Small biz cheering up
Posted on May 12, 2009 at 7:56 amThe latest sentiment survey from the National Federation of Independent Business shows a big gain in entrepreneurs’ expectations of the economy as a whole and their own sales.
The month’s real bounce was the soft indicators, the “feel good” portion of the survey. The outlook for general business conditions moved sharply higher, jumping by 24 points and leaving a majority judging that conditions would improve over the next three to six months.
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Getting your entrepreneur on
Posted on March 19, 2009 at 9:08 amA business pops up to provide resources to help the newly displaced and cash-strapped manage their own businesses:
As job prospects dwindle in labor markets around the country, plucky entrepreneurs don’t appear to be waiting as long for the sound of opportunity’s knock. A headline in The New York Times over the weekend read: “Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own.”
And so it is that a husband and wife team in Memphis, along with a third partner, have started a business venture for anyone who finds themselves with new chores that come with odd jobs they’ve picked up to get by.
That venture is Bizfruits.com, and it is the brainchild of Ludovic and Katie Bruneau, who – with help from partner Harish Dahima – have spent more than a year fleshing out the concept. They started with a simple idea: Build a Web-based business management resource that’s easy to use and that centralizes and streamlines a variety of the day-to-day tasks of running a business.
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Chin up, entrepreneur
Posted on March 11, 2009 at 9:38 amJeff Cornwall passes on poll results that suggest a good number of companies are hangin’ in there just fine.
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Corporate dropout starts doggie day spa
Posted on February 23, 2009 at 9:18 pmWKRN reports.
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Learning from failure
Posted on December 5, 2008 at 2:21 pmThe Virtual CFO shares lessons of his his first entrepreneurial venture:
At BarCamp Nashville 2008, one of the speakers stated that the average entrepreneur has 3.8 failures before building a successful company. My first entrepreneurial business failed. This experience provided me with the passion to help other entrepreneurs successfully grow their companies and to avoid the mistakes I made during my first small business venture.
My business failed for two primary reasons. First, the principal markets we served suffered a major downturn. We provided outsourced logistics for importers of raw commodities, such as steel and lumber. In 1995, the bottom dropped out of these industries and our sales dropped dramatically.
Secondly, I made bad decisions based on my inexperience that significantly increased the debt the company.
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