By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA How many entrepreneurs have you heard utter these words: “I always had an idea I wanted to work for myself”? Add Johnson City’s…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA A little more than a year after first meeting the key executives at Sunstone Partners, a private equity firm, the owners of Sword…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA One had been in business about seven years, the other 21 years when they both experienced significant transitions that the two key players…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Anyone who knows Tommy Nguyen appreciates the fact that he is always upbeat with a big smile on his face. That smile might…
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It’s graduation day for Winter Innovations and the other teams participating in one of the three start-up accelerators that comprise the “Memphis Summer of Acceleration” program. The teams will make…
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Venture funding for digital health companies around the world reached an all-time high in the first half of 2019, topping $5 billion, according to a new Mercom Capital Group report that…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “I had been growing it slow . . . organically,” says Ben Arnold, the Northeast Tennessee Entrepreneur who developed the ConnectScale device in…