Startup: Conversations With Louisville Entrepreneurs

Opening a retail location isn’t easy, nor is it cheap in the new millennium. Jeff Miller loved his active lifestyle and decided to make it his life when he opened VO2 Multisport – and it cost him more than just money.

The Louisville Free Public Library is now offering the Treehouse online learning tools to anybody with a library card, and to kick off that service Dan recorded a live panel discussion with TryItLocal.com’s Todd Earwood, The Graceship’s Emily Gimmel, and U.S. Chia’s Zack Pennington. It’s a hour-long discussion with three seasoned entrepreneurs about where they […]

As part of Idea Festival week, Johnathon Sandlund of The Crowd Cafe and Jeffrey Bekiares of Sparkmarket, part of the Wyatt, Tarrant, and Combs Equity Crowdfunding Panel,  sit and break down what the new SEC regulations on equity crowd funding means moving forward.

Beer is big in Louisville, even to the point of a recurring Open Beer Louisville event taking place in the startup scene. Sterling Beer president Todd Jackson saw an opportunity to take a familiar brand that had fallen by the wayside and resuscitate it as a new venture and he couldn’t be happier with how […]

Crowdfunding is clearly a “thing” and Stacey Servo, along with her team of Louisville fluggers, are using the RocketHub platform to try and fund their trip to Chicago to compete in the Red Bull flying competition.

Startup Weekend is coming up on September 20-22 and co-organizer Daniel Johnsen comes by to talk about what participants can expect and what his experience was like during the last event this past March.

Before the team from Why Wait launched their app, they believed one thing about their customers. When they launched the app to the world, reality was different. The team gathered, re-strategized, and LocalView was born.

When opportunity presents itself, some take it and some don’t. Todd Tallon was a kid with a tough job cleaning up industrial power plants all over the region when he saw a way for the business to run more efficiently. Instead of suggesting it to the boss, he borrowed some money, invested in equipment, and […]

After brewing beer for their own personal consumption for a long time, buddies Gordon Taulbee and Terry Rothman discovered the mead is delicious, viable, and in demand.

The internet has created plenty of wealth for people who sell stuff online, but inventory management was a problem that needed to be solved. Enter Andy Eastes and Agile Harbor, a company that morphed out of online retailer and Louisville startup Street Moda.

With crowd funding ramping up and the SEC forming the rules and regulations, Kent Oyler formed the Commonwealth Crowdfunding Committee to help be proactive for not just Louisville entrepreneurs, but for those around the region who might take advantage of this “hidden money” in the economy. This week, we dive in to what it means […]

The advertising business is extremely competitive, but Mark Palmer and his web development company saw an opportunity to go all in. One of Louisville’s most creative people sits down to talk about how he got started with his first company, merged it with another company, and where they (and media in general) go from there.

IOS mobile app WhereTheTrucks.At is a product of Will Bogel’s mind (well…his wife’s mind) and became a reality after the Spring ’13 Startup Weekend. Will talks about his experience with the idea, how his team formed, and how they continue to work together on this recently released thing that is 4 months in the making.

As part of the VelocitySI Accelerator inaugural class, Rob Rosario and his company Steel Fashion relocated to Jeffersonville. Rob is no stranger to the Midwest, however, and fills us in on how he’s using that geographical experience to work up his customer validation for his startup.

The first class of VelocitySI is in session and A.J. Agrawal dropped by the Louisville.AM studio to shed some light on his experience with the program so far. He talks about the lean launchpad method and what it’s meant to his business plus gives us an outsider’s look at what the Louisville startup scene is […]

After spending all day publishing a medical newspaper, Ben Keeton and his business partner Tom McMahon help to organize a loose group of entrepreneurs-turned-investors into something constructinve. The Louisville Angel Network aims to educate, network, and connect angel investors in Louisville, and they’re doing quite well.

Taylor Trusty was a computer geek who got started early in the world of tech and has parlayed that experience into a successful media company that’s on the cutting edge of digital marketing. Mark Hagan and Steven Von Gerlachter are two of his henchmen keeping him on top of the game in Louisville.

At louisville.am, we clearly think that radio and media are transforming. This is also true for Sharon Scott at ART+FM, who is embracing the experimental programming aspects of broadcasting and is working to build a business with a mass collection of volunteers and their ideas for doing something that matters.

After find success in online wagering venture while in South Africa, Lou Kelmanson found himself in Louisville and was pleasantly plugged in to the startup community right away. Three years later, he’s invested in plenty but is still an entrepreneur first.

Fresh off of the announcement that they’re in the inaugural class for Velocity SI, Ron Karroll and Ariel Caplan sit down in the newly Christened Louisville.AM studio to talk about their music-based startup called Collabra Music.