Monday Biz Briefing: GE Appliance Park to make new Walmart line; downtown...
Welcome to the April 30 top secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are biz tips Insider Louisville staff and contributors have collected during the past few days, some of which are...
View ArticleMelissa Chipman at Startup Weekend: Day 1, navigating Louisville’s...
For the first forty-five minutes, I am the only woman at the event. It’s Startup Weekend Louisville, a 54-hour marathon event that gathers developers, designers, and business people and propels them...
View ArticleMelissa Chipman at Startup Weekend Louisville, Day 2: 'The past 30-hours have...
By Melissa Chipman I’d like to be able to say that the one benefit of being the sole woman among approximately forty male participants of Startup Weekend Louisville (not to mention all of the mentors,...
View Article‘We’re here because it’s a big deal’: Kentucky politicians preside over iHub...
by Melissa Chipman Vickie Yates Brown, president and CEO of Nucleus kicked off the opening ceremony of the new iHub co-working space on South Floyd Street. The 2400-square-foot facility is the first of...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou meets in a new place and welcomes new faces
New venue. New faces. New structure… to a degree. At this morning’s fifth Open Morning Meeting for Entrepreneurs and Coffee, this time with Chocolate, at Ghyslain at 721 E. Market Street, we hosted...
View ArticleSocial Media Explorer founder Jason Falls leaves for new role at CafePress
It’s the classic start-up arc. An innovator sees a void to fill and starts a successful business. A business that ultimately outgrows the visionary. But the cool thing is, it opens doors the person...
View ArticleKentucky Kicks Ass: 'I'm No One' merchandise available at Cafe Press
Love it or hate it, but Kentucky for Kentucky’s “Kentucky Kicks Ass” guerrilla branding campaign is still rolling along. If you’ve been living in a family-imposed social media black-out due to the...
View ArticleNational Journal focuses on why Louisville will be a major player in 'The...
We like to read what national media are saying about our city because, really, we’re reading about ourselves, right? Truthfully, we don’t read National Journal as much as we should because the sister...
View ArticleIn Other News… A possible McConnell challenger; Louisville found to be...
Next!: So one of the big stories popping out of Kentucky this week may sound a touch familiar: Democrats approach well-known to somewhat well-known celebrity to take on Mitch McConnell in the upcoming...
View ArticleCafePress adding 50 jobs in Louisville, new call center operation
(Editor’s note: This post was updated at 4:15 p.m. on May 31. Due to reporter error, CafePress Louisville plant manager Keith Pataluna was misidentified in the photo.) Through the miracle of unilateral...
View ArticleJason Falls: You’ll kick yourself later if miss ‘Youtility’ author Jay Baer...
This is likely to be Louisville Digital Association’s first mega-event of 2013. New York Times Best-Selling author Jay Baer will bring his concept of “Youtility” to the LDA gathering scheduled for Aug....
View ArticleCrowdfunded event: CycLOUvia returns in triplicate, with open street days...
For the record, we loved this idea from the start. Back in June 2012, IL broke the news (city organizers flat did not want to talk about it at the time) that a huge bike and hike event was planned …...
View ArticleGet your T’s here: CafePress announcing new apparel-fueled crowdfunding platform
CafePress is getting in on the crowdfunding trend. Later today, the king of customization companies that was founded in 1999 and moved to Louisville in 2012, will announce the creation of a new site...
View ArticleCafePress at #IF13: new and improved 3D printing (3D glasses not included)
It’s just too bad that there’s not a protective phone case that looks just as futuristic as your new iPhone 5S. Something really creative, something brand new, something… printed with a 3D printer. At...
View ArticlePivotal founder, Startup Weekend winner Keith Warren: When does an idea...
“I’m going after moms who are from 25 to 50 years old,” says Keith Warren. “They’re the keeper of memories.” In Warren’s world this means moms take the time to organize the hundreds of digital photos...
View ArticleIn Other News… Rand Paul’s ‘Gattaca,’ Cardinal Basketball and Football
• Gattaca! Gattaca!: On Monday, Senator Rand Paul visited Liberty University to stump for Ken Cuccinelli, the republican candidate in Virginia’s race for governor, as covered by Politico. In his...
View ArticleInsiders Meetup: Pip Pullen, Jason Falls and how social media trumps SEO for...
It’s been almost four decades since Al Gore invented the Internet, and companies are still trying to figure out how to capture the digital magic for marketing, advertising and branding. Monday evening,...
View ArticleCatching up with CafePress: IL visits Global HQ to chat with CEO Bob Marino
When the founders of CafePress, Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain, sought out Bob Marino to be their vice president of operations in 2005, he’d spent his entire career in the food industry. Durham and Jain...
View ArticleOohology lands Huffman Automotive rebranding, top-secret project for CafePress
Only three years ago, Oohology was still essentially a start-up web agency and branding firm. At the time, Oohology wasn’t even Oohology, but rather Makespace!, a five-year-old digital marketing firm...
View ArticleBy: Dave Campbell
uh, Cafepress headquarters is in LOUISVILLE, KY. wow, there’s some news. over a year old news that is. here are some ‘sources’:...
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