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Cornbread Hemp’s Big Win with Equity Crowdfunding
In the last MetroStart podcast, we talked to Cornbread Hemp's Jim Higdon about their ongoing equity crowdfunding round. This week, we talk to Jim again about how they knocked it ou…
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Louisville’s Cornbread Hemp Scores a Startup Fundraising First
Louisville's Cornbread Hemp just scored a local fundraising first. They're the first company to receive Render Capital's $20,000 investment in their WeFunder Match Fund. They're al…
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Louisville Entrepreneur Steven Plappert Back in the Startup Game
Steven Plappert and two co-founders, Andrew Busa and Chris Pierce, started an online fantasy sports company in 2013 called FantasyHub. The company saw early promise and growth, mov…
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Louisville Startup is an Implantable Healthcare Pioneer
People often cite healthcare as an area of expertise that may help propel Louisville, KY to greater startup and business prominence in the United States, and Dr. Angelique Johnson…
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How This Louisville Company Makes Online Food Ordering Better
After years of working in the corporate world, Mo Sloan saw a need. Online ordering systems that were available to restaurants had a glaring problem. They do not integrate with the…
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How Has Y-Combinator Boosted Louisville’s WeatherCheck
What single Louisville company is part of the same fraternity as Airbnb and Dropbox? It's a company called WeatherCheck, and they now are an alumnus of the prestigious Silicon Vall…
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How to Make Raising Capital Easier
Since the very beginning, MetroStart (formerly Metro Startup Launcher) has worked to make it easier for startup companies in our area to raise capital and get started. With a lot o…
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Want to Know More About Patrick Henshaw, LEAP CEO?
Patrick Henshaw came to Louisville about 4 months ago to lead the Louisville Entrepreneurship Acceleration Partnership (LEAP) as CEO. If you're part of our entrepreneurial communit…
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How to Help Save Lives and Build A Successful Startup
Rebah Wheeling was a successful insurance claims adjuster. One emotional day while meeting with a hurricane victim lead to the founding of her fast growing local company - Schedule…
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How to Get Capital for Your Startup
What's the most effective way to raise capital for your startup? How do most companies actually raise capital for their startup in our area? What changes in SEC law have made it ea…
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Can Louisville be a Leader in the Sharing Economy?
The "Sharing Economy" has been an amazing driver of wealth and convenience for the world. Companies like Uber, Lyft, and, Airbnb have dramatically changed the way we get from one p…
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How to Find Success with Louisville Angel Investing?
Increasing the number of local angel investors has been the goal of Metro Startup Launcher from the very beginning. We've done a lot of blogs, emails, and podcasts, and now we've p…
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Cuddle Clones just made Louisville startup history!
Jennifer Williams of Cuddle Clones is making Louisville startup history! Cuddle Clones already made world history by creating the only scalable company that allows you to order onl…
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How to Boost Louisville’s Rise of the Rest Momentum
What a week we had recently for local entrepreneurs! I hope you had a chance to attend some of the Kentucky Startup events. With Endeavor's International Selection Panel and Steve…
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How to get startups started with Alli from Wicked Sheets
Alli Truttmann just celebrated a HUGE milestone for any business: the 10-year anniversary of her company, Wicked Sheets. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, abou…
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Ben Reno-Weber, MobileServe, and Louisville’s Rise of the Rest!
MobileServe is a fast-growing mobile app company that helps organizations track and encourage participation in volunteer activities: tracking, managing, and reporting their social…
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How is John Williamson advancing healthcare artificial intelligence in Louisville?
Artificial intelligence is quickly affecting more and more of our lives, like it or not. I personally look forward to the day that lots of "bots" do all my busy work and leave me f…
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How are Ted Smith and Revon Systems trailblazing healthcare?
In the latest edition of the Metro Startup Launcher podcast, I interview Ted Smith, CEO of Revon Systems, Inc. Ted has been a major influencer of our startup community in many ways…
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How to take advantage of the 40% Angel Tax Credit?
One thing that makes a startup investment in Kentucky extremely attractive is the Kentucky Angel Investment Tax Credit. If you're an accredited investor and a Kentucky resident, yo…
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How SkuVault launched from startup to skyrocket?
Local company SkuVault has won a lot of awards and made a lot of headlines lately. They're one of the local Endeavor companies, and they're a shining example of how to go from scra…