Time flies when you’re having fun: IL CEO Tom Cottingham hosts 1-year...
Insider Louisville CEO Tom Cottingham was there at the start of Open Coffee Louisville, almost a year ago. Both Tom and the entire team at Insider Louisville have been tireless supporters of the...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 48: Digital media and ad landscape with Insider Louisville’s...
A year ago, Open Coffee Louisville was born from a twitter conversation that happened during Brad Feld’s nigh-historic presentation at the Kentucky Center in October 2012. Feld spoke about creating...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 49 preview: 301 Interactive’s Kenny Marcum on SEO
Wow, it’s November already – hard to believe that Open Coffee Louisville has reached its first anniversary, but it was a year ago when this all got started. But, we’re not here to reminisce. Open...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View Article#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...
View ArticleMonday at OpenCoffeeLou: Recovery Station’s Daniel Johnsen on productivity...
By Daniel Johnsen, Recovery Station Hello everyone! I hope you’ve had an opportunity to recover from the holiday and are looking forward to finishing a strong (and shippable) 2013 and to an exciting...
View Article#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...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 54: How can entrepreneurs and tech-types help Louisville’s...
(Update 4:56 p.m.: The location of Friday’s Open Beer has been changed. Update Dec. 10, 4:25 p.m.: The mention of the CJ article was mis-attributed to Altamirano. And while there is a Nathan Ford who...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou Preview: People doing good in Louisville
Remember high school English? A person who’s affluent is doing well; someone who’s helping others is doing good. Since 2013 is coming to a close, it’s a good time to reflect on people who are having a...
View Article#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...
View ArticleOpen Coffee: Closed on Jan. 6 due to inclement weather
Sorry folks: Consider us concerned. We don’t want anyone risking snow or ice or dangerously low temps to come have coffee with us. A bunch of us talked it through — including intended moderator, Nick...
View ArticleOpen Coffee preview: Come meet the winter cohort from Velocity’s accelerator...
After a three week hiatus, Open Coffee Louisville will kick off 2014 on a high note. Join us at 8 a.m. on Monday to learn more about the five startups that comprise the second cohort at Velocity, the...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 56: Meet the second cohort of the Velocity accelerator program
As Kelby Price said this morning, “Maybe we should take three weeks off more often.” Open Coffee Louisville opened to a packed house, and people just kept pouring in. Upwards of 46 people showed up...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 59: What’s on your ‘List’?
Blaise Pascal said, “Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” So, we suppose, do the folks who make the decision to call off school for JCPS. Last week, #OpenCoffeeLou declared: “As JCPS goes,...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 60: Cardinal Challenge business plan competition
This morning’s Open Coffee featured a panel from this weekend’s Cardinal Challenge business plan competition: Suzanne Bergmeister, faculty advisor for the UofL team Appro Therapeutics and organizer of...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 61: El Toro and geo-targeting Internet advertising
Toward the end of this morning’s Open Coffee, University of Louisville student Jubin Shah asked Stacy Giggs, chief operator and president of El Toro, “So is El Toro the only company of it’s kind in the...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 61 preview: Startup Weekend recap
Startup Weekend Louisville returns for the fourth time this weekend. Velocity Indiana hosts this 54-hour marathon of idea generation, team building, product development and customer validation. By the...
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