Posted by: Ross Reily, Alan Turner in Columns, Education, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS November 19, 2015 Polly Dement, author of Mississippi Entrepreneurs, grew up in Vicksburg and learned her chosen craft of writing partly as a result of her education at Millsaps, where she was fortunate enough to attend some of the Welty seminars when the author…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, November 19, 2015 For more information, contact Sandra Buckley, 601-960-3629 or sbuckley@innovate.ms From left to right: Bubba Weir, vice president of Innovate Mississippi; Tim Coursey, executive director of the Madison County Economic Development Authority; Tony Jeff, president and CEO of Innovate Mississippi Jackson, Miss. (November…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, CLARION LEDGER FEATURE, BUSINESS, November 19, 2015: Anyone with a smartphone that has played around with cool apps probably has their favorites. When I find an app that I think is good, I’m probably somewhat annoying in my circle of friends because I become such an evangelist for…
By James B. Wilcox, Southern Miss Now, News Article, November 19, 215 The Southern Entrepreneurship Program (SEP), a statewide outreach program of The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Center for Economic and Entrepreneurship Education, kicked off its 9th annual program series on Nov. 4 in Jackson, Miss. Nearly 350…
By Ted Carter, Mississippi Business Journal, November 12, 2015 Mississippi start-up companies that have labored in solitude to turn their ideas into dollars moved into the spotlight Tuesday in day one of Innovate Mississippi’s 16th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation. An audience that included members of Innovate Mississippi’s Venture Capital…
By TED CARTER, Mississippi Business Journal, November 12, 2015 Every so often someone walks into the Innovate Mississippi office certain he has devised a surefire perpetual motion machine. Tony Jeff will probably be the one hearing the claim. The market indeed needs a machine that outputs more energy than it…
Posted by: Ted Carter in Economic Development, MBJ FEATURE, NEWS, Technology, Tourism November 12, 2015 By TED CARTER Every so often someone walks into the Innovate Mississippi office certain he has devised a surefire perpetual motion machine. Tony Jeff will probably be the one hearing the claim. The market indeed needs a machine that outputs more energy than…
By Hu Meena Few people noticed the lightbulb. The innovation that has come to be the very symbol of, well, a great idea. No one was against it, but few saw the potential. And who could blame them? This was a disruptive innovation that seemed out of context and excessive…
By LISA MONTI The founders of Trensek, a new technology, mobile game and app development company in Jackson, will roll out its first game next month, and they are hoping it will be the first of many trendsetting products. The 10 entrepreneurs also want their new startup to give hope to…
(Ridgeland, MS) -Innovate Mississippi will host the 16th Annual Conference on Technology Innovation November 10-11 at the downtown Jackson Marriott, as a keystone event of November again being declared by Governor Phil Bryant as Innovation Month in Mississippi. “For the last 15 years, we have gathered the innovation community together…