(EDITOR’S NOTE: CQInsights PBC was selected by the judges as winner of the pitch competition during last week’s “Startup Day” Knoxville annual event. Here’s an update on the progress that…

By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA Panelists from the “Showing Up for Women Entrepreneurs” event offered years of experience and advice to attendees, agreeing that one of…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Seven Knoxville area entrepreneurs shared the start-ups they have launched and the aspirations they have during a virtual event yesterday hosted by the…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a two-part series that spotlights the history, culture and philosophy of a more than six-decade family-owned business in Knoxville that is undergoing…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA The weeklong celebration of entrepreneurs and start-ups in the Knoxville region begins a week from today with about a half-dozen key events –…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “I’ve seen when the economy was bad and was bracing for that in the early days of COVID,” says Ed MacFawn, Chief Executive…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA In a teknovation.biz article we published in October 2017, John Platillero, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of EventBooking, said, “Everything happens for a reason.” That…