Even after Collegiate Tutoring won the New Venture Challenge in 2017, CEO Lee Ingram found himself deciding to pivot with his startup. While the company still does fundamentally the same thing—connecting college students with tutors to help them learn important concepts and improve their grades—the customer that Ingram now focuses…
BidMoni co-CEO Stephen Daigle's experience as a financial advisor taught him something interesting about the world of retirement plans--and particularly 401k plans implemented by companies for their employees. The problem: It's nearly impossible for all but the biggest corporations to compare 401k plans and know they're getting the best deal…
Seventeen startup business teams from Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi—all part of the Delta Regional Authority's Delta I-Fund program—converged on the Innovation Hub in downtown Jackson for their Opening Weekend on June 9th and 10th. Sponsored by Innovate Mississippi, with support from TeamJXN and Coalesce Coworking, the Opening Weekend event saw…
This May, Starkville-based Camgian was named the Industrial IoT ("Internet of Things") Company of the Year in the 6th Annual Compass Intelligence awards. The awards, presented by the global analytics company Compass Intelligence, are voted on by an outside group of press, editors, journalists and thought leaders in the industry. “In…
JACKSON, Mississippi - Ten Mississippi counties will share $75,000 in grants for projects to make them more competitive among companies looking to establish or expand their operations. In its second year, Entergy Mississippi's Excellerator Competitive Communities program, awarded grants for environmental site assessments, website development, marketing and more. "When our…
[press release] WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, yesterday chaired a hearing to consider the state of the mobile application economy and ways for Congress to support the development of the industry. (View the video on…
The inaugural MVMT 2018 ("movement") event took place this month at the Jackson Convention Center. The day-long conference presented by C Spire was really two different events—one was a serious cyber security conference for technology professionals and the other was technology fair for students, teachers and the general public. Mississippi…
When Jackson native Nashlie Sephus was working on her doctorate degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), she met Jewel Burks. Burks had a startup business idea that came out of her work in customer service at the parts department of a manufacturing company.The idea came from a…
Startup Weekend 2018 was a stellar success, with over 40 people participating on nine teams that presented on Sunday night after the grueling 54-hour process of choosing a product, forming a team and testing the ideas. The event took place April 20-22, 2018 at the CoalesceJXN co-working space in downtown…
Startup Weekend 2018 in Jackson was a huge success, with nine teams making it through the grueling 54-hour process. Startup Weekend participants begin with initial ideas and team formation on Friday evening, and then go two full days through the process of business planning, customer validation, mentor sessions, prototyping, market…