Venture roundup

Our 28 March NewsBits features news from Council Ventures, edo Interactive, University of Tennessee, Terry Esper, Kelly Tiller, Vaden Landers, crowd-funding, SimCenter and much more more, right here.

Chamber's Harper: Companies we admire persevere

The Nashville Chamber's Garrett Harper and ProfitPoint President Vaden Landers underscore in NBJ the value of pressing-on in a down economy. Landers reiterated the M&A growth strategy VNC reported earlier.

ProfitPoint serious about inviting M&A dancers

If you think ProfitPoint's Vaden Landers (left) is pussy-footin' around about running an ad "ISO" would-be sellers to fuel his roll-up strategy, take a look at the ad here (pdf) and read this morning's story on VNC.