On his first day as the new president and CEO of EmergeMemphis, Carlton Crothers talked about a grand vision of “creating an innovation ecosystem” in Memphis.

Crothers is the new head of an organization formed in 2001 that serves as an incubator for high-growth companies. He comes to Emerge from Innovation Ecosystem Design in Dallas, with a long career of entrepreneurship-related endeavors behind him.

2. EmergeMemphis Taps new President and CEO - Monday, June 03, 2013

EmergeMemphis has new leadership at the top.

The tech company incubator has chosen Carlton Crothers, previously with Innovation Ecosystem Design in Dallas, as its new president and CEO.

Former Pinnacle Airlines CEO Phil Trenary led the search to fill the role previously held by Eric Mathews, who recently left the post to focus on his leadership of the entity now known as Start Co. To fill the spot at EmergeMemphis, a search was conducted that included local and national candidates with the help of the National Business Incubation Association.

3. Couple Moves to Memphis to Launch Startup - Monday, May 06, 2013

Pam and Tom Cooper are the co-founders of Boosterville, a Memphis-based startup with an app that helps school fundraisers raise money by connecting them with local businesses.

4. Entrepreneurial Spirit Thriving in Memphis - Saturday, March 16, 2013

In recent years, there has been a civic pushback against the relentless downing of Memphis that over a long period of time came to dominate any attempt to have a purposeful discussion about the city’s future.

5. Launching Pad - Saturday, March 16, 2013

Eric Mathews sounded a little emotional in early February as he described what was about to happen to the organization he leads that’s at the vanguard of spurring entrepreneurship and startup activity in Memphis.

6. LaunchYourCity Programs Soon Leaving Downtown - Saturday, February 16, 2013

The LaunchYourCity entrepreneurial platform, which includes elements like Upstart Memphis and the Seed Hatchery startup accelerator, is getting set to leave the EmergeMemphis building Downtown and move to Playhouse on the Square in Midtown.

7. LaunchYourCity Programs Soon Leaving Downtown - Monday, February 11, 2013

The LaunchYourCity entrepreneurial platform, which includes elements like Upstart Memphis and the Seed Hatchery startup accelerator, is getting set to leave the EmergeMemphis building Downtown and move to Playhouse on the Square in Midtown.

8. Lighting the Spark - Saturday, February 09, 2013

Somewhere, there’s an entrepreneur scribbling an idea on little more than the back of a napkin. Someone else has all the pieces of a new company in place, and now they’re ready to dial for dollars. Entrepreneurs are a talented bunch, but that talent doesn’t always include a knack for management or finance – skill sets that plenty of experts in Memphis stand ready to help explain.

9. LaunchYourCity Moving to Playhouse on the Square - Friday, February 08, 2013

The LaunchYourCity entrepreneurial platform, which includes elements like Upstart Memphis and the Seed Hatchery startup accelerator, is getting set to relocate out of the EmergeMemphis building Downtown.

10. Startup Conference Billed as ‘Must Attend’ - Friday, February 01, 2013

Scott Case, the founding chief technology officer of Priceline.com and Startup America CEO, had some words of praise for Memphis and Tennessee while on a panel at November’s Ernst & Young Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, Calif.

11. Six New Seed Hatchery Teams Chosen - Thursday, January 31, 2013

Six new teams have been lined up for the 2013 Seed Hatchery cohort.

Seed Hatchery is Memphis’ high-growth tech startup accelerator and puts entrepreneurs through a 90-day boot camp, with a crash course in customer discovery, business development, go-to-market strategies and investor pitches. And this year’s cohort marks the third collection of founders to go through the program.

12. Tech Talk - Tuesday, January 29, 2013

It is a pleasant lunchtime hour on a recent weekday, and a small gathering of technologists has huddled at Panera Bread in the Laurelwood shopping center for their monthly confab.

They’re participants in a recurring series of “Tech Lunches” spearheaded by Brian Swanson. He’s a software developer and the founder of Purple Ant Software, which focuses on Web and desktop software development.

13. Ray Rico Freelance Moves Into Cooper-Young - Saturday, January 12, 2013

Ray Rico Freelance has inked a lease for 550 square feet in the heart of the Cooper-Young Historic District after working for six years as a freelancer out of his nearby home and hiring strictly contract labor.

14. Ray Rico Freelance Moves Into Cooper-Young - Monday, January 07, 2013

Ray Rico Freelance has inked a lease for 550 square feet in the heart of the Cooper-Young Historic District after working for six years as a freelancer out of his nearby home and hiring strictly contract labor.

15. Cloud for Good Releases Synagogues Application - Tuesday, November 27, 2012

A Memphis-based startup company that harnesses the power of cloud computing technology to help nonprofits has released a new product aimed at synagogues.

Cloud for Good this week is announcing the release of SynagogueCloud, a comprehensive management application tailored for synagogues and built in the cloud on the Salesforce.com platform.

16. Tigers Weather Elements, Past to Give Fuente First Victory - Friday, October 12, 2012

If the first victory of the Justin Fuente Era proves to be something of a turning point for the University of Memphis football program, it will be remembered differently in the days and years ahead.

17. Synk Coaches Businesses, Helps Them Grow - Friday, October 05, 2012

Michael Synk is like a professor, salesman, evangelist and coach all rolled into one, prodding and supporting the community of executive leaders in Memphis via In-Synk, the business education and coaching firm he founded.

18. Entrepreneurial Ecosystem - Monday, October 01, 2012

Maybe you’re a startup founder who wants to rub shoulders with your peers, pitch investors in the hope of landing venture capital and talk to a lawyer about drawing up paperwork.

Maybe you’re a veteran researcher who’s got a side project that looks like it could turn into something big. Or maybe you’ve got little more than an idea on the back of a napkin.

19. National Tech Media Site Relocating to Memphis - Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Nibletz.com, which bills itself as “the voice of startups everywhere else”, is moving its base of operations to Memphis, after considering a few other cities – and even sweeter incentives elsewhere.

20. Raleigh Office Complex Sold To Local Entity - Friday, August 03, 2012

An office complex in Raleigh has traded hands after being under the same family ownership for more than 30 years.

Commercial Real Estate Network LLC, a local investor, has purchased the 40,756-square-foot Raleigh Center Office Complex at 2974 Austin Peay Highway from Charles R. Averwater Living Trust for $299,000.

21. Seed Hatchery Participants Prep for Investor Day - Tuesday, April 24, 2012

For months, the entrepreneurs behind six new startups have refined their concepts, listened to mentors, learned from each other – and counted down the days.

In a little more than a week, that counting will be over. For the enrollees in this year’s Seed Hatchery program — an intense boot camp-style, mentorship-driven seed stage investment program – May 3 is the day they’ve been working toward.

22. Cloud for Good Connects Nonprofits With Technology - Monday, April 16, 2012

From an office on the second floor of the EmergeMemphis building at 516 Tennessee St., a small company called Cloud for Good is harnessing the power of cloud technology to help nonprofits develop customized, cost-effective solutions, advance their missions and raise the social return on their investments.

23. Haversack CEO Kept Going Until He Found What Works - Friday, April 13, 2012

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a six-part series on entrepreneurs in the current round of Seed Hatchery’s “cohort” boot camp.

Josh Bell, an avid hunter and fisherman, is so pumped about Haversack, his new outdoors-themed startup that’s taking shape, that he at times finds himself unable to break away from making plans, tweaking this and researching that.

24. St. George’s to Host Symposium - Thursday, April 05, 2012

The public is invited to learn about the importance of entrepreneurial citizenship during St. George’s Independent School’s 2012 Educational Symposium, slated for April 14 at Memphis Bioworks Foundation, 20 S. Dudley St.

25. Leadership Change - Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Eric Mathews, long at the center of a variety of tech ventures and entrepreneurship projects in the city, is taking the reins at EmergeMemphis.

26. EmergeMemphis Names Mathews As Executive Director - Monday, February 13, 2012

Eric Mathews, long at the center of a variety of tech ventures and entrepreneurship projects in the city, is taking the reins at EmergeMemphis.

27. Growing Innovation - Tuesday, August 02, 2011

The investors have been courted. Early-stage companies are about to enroll in the next round of a local training program.

Customers for newly formed companies are being targeted, and new apps that promote fresh uses for everything from quick response (QR) codes to virtual graffiti are rolling out to the public.

28. Seed Hatchery Helps Local Startups Spring to Life - Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Springtime gardening isn’t just for farmers anymore. The new Memphis venture group Seed Hatchery hopes to plant six innovative new companies into home soil.

Financial investments, mentorship and a business-owners’ Boot Camp are part of a 90-day process of entrepreneurial training.

29. ATTN: Mayor Wharton - Monday, January 10, 2011

Memphians sound off on city’s most pressing needs.

Aaron Shafer
Founder of Skatelife Memphis; scientist at St. Jude Children’s Research Hosp.
Develop and promote a citywide mentoring campaign. We must heavily invest in the positive development of our children. Many of our Memphis children suffer not from a material poverty, but a poverty of healthy relationships and ultimately a poverty of possibility – of reaching their full potential. Each of us has had supportive network of mentors (“the village”) in our lives, be they our parents, teachers or friends, that have come along side of us to build our self-esteem and to help us navigate a path that moves us closer to realizing our potential.

30. Mark’s Menus Brings Ease to Restaurant, Menu Searches - Monday, November 22, 2010

Scott Brown, head of technology for Microplace.com, eBay’s microfinance initiative, left Silicon Valley in July 2008 and returned to his native Memphis to launch a technology start-up.

31. Ignite Night to Highlight Memphis’ Creative Side - Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A self-described “geek” event that’s already swept cities from Helsinki to New York to Sydney makes its Memphis debut at 7 Tuesday evening at Playhouse on the Square.

IgniteMemphis invites pre-registered speakers to sell their idea to a hometown crowd in exactly five minutes. Each speaker is given 20 slides, each shown for just 15 seconds.

32. FedEx CIO Carter to Highlight Leadership Academy Luncheon - Tuesday, August 31, 2010

In May, longtime FedEx CIO and executive vice president of information services Rob Carter joined the likes of pop star Lady Gaga, fashion designer Tom Ford and Oscar-winning director James Cameron on Fast Company’s 2010 list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.

33. Risk Aversion Could Hold City Back, Biz Leader Says - Friday, April 16, 2010

Memphis could be left behind in an economic rebound because it has become a “big company town” with a low tolerance for risk, said Eric Mathews, the co-founder of LaunchMemphis.

34. After Startup Weekend, Five Businesses Born - Thursday, June 04, 2009

Kevin Yancy walked into the EmergeMemphis building last Friday night with a domain name and dream. He walked out 48 hours later with a team of 10 people, the beta version of a Web site and the foundation for a startup company called The Roll Play.

35. Startup Weekend To Foster Multiple Ideas - Thursday, May 28, 2009

Memphis is known for its entrepreneurs, from Clarence Saunders inventing the self-service grocery store to Kemmons Wilson inventing the hotel chain to Fred Smith inventing overnight package delivery.

36. LaunchMemphis To Become Nonprofit Org. - Wednesday, August 06, 2008

A local organization formed to bring together entrepreneurial-minded individuals in the community has experienced such a show of interest that organizers are taking the next step in formalizing it.

37. Biz Startup Event Slated for Late May - Thursday, March 06, 2008

The possibilities are endless.

With a group of 100 people, experts in various fields and many different visions, there's no telling what ideas will come out of the weekend event that brings a whole room of people together for the purpose of coming up with an idea for a startup business.

38. Entrepreneurs Bank On Fractional Ownership Market - Tuesday, October 30, 2007

In the midst of an uncertain housing market, one trend seems to be flourishing: Fractional ownership of luxury homes and condominiums has become a fast-growing segment of the housing industry, local industry experts said. And it's not expected to slow down anytime soon.

39. Artificial Intelligence Gains Momentum - Wednesday, March 01, 2006

More than a few people probably remember watching "The Jetsons" and marveling at the wonder of having a robotic maid like Rosie the Robot or being able to get an entire three-course meal at the touch of a button.

40. Mathews Named to New Post at FedEx Institute - Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Eric Mathews was named associate director of corporate research and development at the University of Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology. Mathews previously served FIT in temporary roles directing research and business development and was part of the institute's founding executive management. He earned a bachelor's degree from Rhodes College and a master's degree from the University of Memphis.

41. Team Sets New Standards in E-Learning - Friday, December 02, 2005

The age-old practice of training employees using a lecture-based method - one lecturer standing before a class of 10 or more students - may well be on its way to extinction.

Technology-based training methods are making a serious dent in the overall field of employee training as more and more companies move toward online learning.

42. Archived Article: Small Biz Focus - Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Basically what we see drive profitabl and cash flow

Langston Helps Professionals Direct Their Futures

ANDY MEEK

The Daily News

Greg Langston wants to help corporate employees and high school and college students capitalize on their poten...

43. Archived Article: Tech (lead) - Thursday, May 13, 2004
FedEx Institute lauds new technology tools

New Technology Fosters Collaboration

FedEx Institute, businesses to benefit from Nortel partnership

ANDREW BELL

The Daily News

Those who still marvel at the capabilities of cell phones and th...

44. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, August 27, 2003
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45. Archived Article: Memos - Wednesday, July 29, 1998
Taylor French has been named general manager of French & Co Taylor French has been named general manager of French & Co., Realtors and The French Connection. He is a graduate of the University of the South. Dan Estes has been promoted to vic...