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#OpenCoffeeLou 49: Kenny Marcum talks SEO and ‘link juice’ to a packed house

Was it the hot topic, Search Engine Optimization, that brought droves to this morning’s Open Coffee? Was it the speaker, Kenny Marcum of 301 Inter@ctive Marketing? Was it the fact the time change...

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Hacktucky: ‘Bluegrass, Bourbon and Code’ open data 24 hour hackathon

The Hacktucky website opens with this pitch: “This is your chance to work side-by-side with the smartest minds from across the industry to ship products that will benefit people of Kentucky.” Hacktucky...

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Vogt Award’s Demo Day: Hardware-focused startups compete for up to $100,000

We’ve seen some of these startups before. Babylocity LLC won Lexington’s 5Across competition in April. Liberate Medical just graduated from the XLerateHealth healthcare accelerator program. But based...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 50 preview: Zack Pennington, Startup Ambassador, to present...

Back in June when Ben Yoskovitz visited Louisville and Lexington and spoke to the startup communities in both cities, he sparked an idea for  Tendai Charasika, director of GLI’s EnterpriseCorp and Dave...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 50: Zack Pennington and Startup Ambassadors

(CORRECTION: The original post credited the founding of Startup Ambassadors to Tendai Charasika and Dave Durand. The program was in fact founded by Zack Pennington who then brought Charasika and Durand...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 51 preview: Arts and Entrepreneurship with Theo Edmonds from...

by Kelby Price, Moderator A year ago we barely had one business accelerator program in the region (and, though it was awesome, you probably didn’t even know about it). Today we’ve successfully...

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Frankfort-based Babylocity solves universal problem, goes home with $100k...

(Editor’s note: This story was reported by Cheryl Boyd for Insider Louisville. Additional information was taken from a Vogt Awards news release.) Take a universal problem and develop a simple,...

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Kentucky creates Angel Investors Network to funnel money to entrepreneurs who...

We’d heard hints about a new online investor/entrepreneur connector at various start-up and entrepreneur events. But we didn’t see this coming in late on a Friday afternoon. Whatever …. A day after a...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 52: Louisville team wins Lexington Startup Weekend: ‘Encourage...

Today’s Open Coffee started as a moderator-less meeting, but when Daniel Johnsen and Charles Buddeke were asked to re-cap their experience at this past weekend’s Startup Weekend in Lexington, we...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 53: Some of our favorite productivity tips, tricks, hacks and...

Happy Cyber Monday! Today at Open Coffee, Daniel Johnsen, moderator and founder of Recovery Station, brought the group an early holiday present: a free trial of the Recovery Station protein shakes. The...

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Updated: Farm-to-table in Louisville takes a blow as Grasshoppers closing

Post updated at 2:25 p.m. Multiple sources have confirmed to Insider Louisville that Grasshoppers Distribution, the six-year-old farm-to-table distributor, is closing down. The operation will close...

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#OpenCoffeeLou 55: People doing good in Louisville

Our last Open Coffee meeting of 2013 was a small meeting. It may have been because it seemed way darker in the early hours this morning than it usually does. It may mean that some of our regular...

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Velocity accelerator program announces second cohort of startups

Velocity’s second class of startups doubles down on local companies. The first cohort included two Kentuckiana startups — Collabra and Large Insights. This class, which begins the program on Jan. 6,...

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Louisville startup LensFactory can give you new lenses in the eyeglass frames...

For many people, their eyeglasses are part of their signature look. Think Woody Allen. Sally Jesse Raphael. Johnny Depp. John Lennon. If you’re anything like these people, your prescription changes...

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Louisville in line to become eighth Kiva City in U.S.

You’ve heard of Kickstarter campaigns wherein, say, a band crowdfunds an album by appealing to its fans to make donations up front, usually with the promise of exclusive songs or other content....

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Find a cure for ‘founders’ disease’ at Erik Snyder’s ‘Growth Hacking’ workshop

You’re the founder of a new startup. You’ve poured your heart and soul into it. You’ve emptied your bank account and an unimaginable number of coffee cups working on it. But it’s worth it. Because it’s...

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Bryce Butler on social entrepreneurship at the next Venture Connectors Luncheon

On Monday, Insider Louisville wrote about the future of Louisville as a “Kiva City.” Bryce Butler’s Access Ventures is one of the key players in helping the microlender establish a presence in...

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‘Entrepreneur Immersion’ field trip: Heading to Lexington and Awesome Inc.

There has been a lot of talk in 2013 of building bridges between the Louisville and Lexington entrepreneurial communities. In an article on Insider Louisville yesterday, Enterprise Corps Executive...

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From Gray to Green: MSD saving money with green infrastructure

When the rain pours in Louisville, not only do streets sometimes flood, but local waterways suffer: sewers fill up, then release water and sewage into Beargrass Creek and the Ohio River. “Combined...

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Mark your calendars: Fourth Startup Weekend Louisville to be held Feb. 28 –...

Dates have been finalized for the fourth Startup Weekend Louisville. The event will be held Feb. 28 – Mar. 2 at a venue to be announced soon (insider hint: “Louisville” may be a misnomer this time...

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