By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA One of the recommendations entrepreneurs frequently hear from advisors and mentors is the importance of a co-founder. It makes the journey easier, particularly…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Last year was one of solid progress that portends an exciting 2018 for Grow Bioplastics, the Knoxville area start-up focused on commercializing products…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA The Knoxville Entrepreneurship Center (KEC) is leveraging a number of strategic relationships to offer its latest start-up accelerator. Named AgWorks, the 12-week program…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “I’m not a scientist, I’m a cheerleader,” Ted Wampler Jr. said as he concluded a luncheon presentation on the second day of a…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA There was a significant celebration about the future yesterday morning in a building in Roane County where one of the walls is from…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Rather than a single feature story today, we’re capturing some recent highlights. Rural Entrepreneurship Anyone who follows State of Tennessee initiatives knows that…
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second article in a two-part series describing the evangelical work of the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center’s Joy O’Shell as she takes entrepreneurial training to smaller towns…