Kustelski ETIX CEO

Joe Kustelski, who helped shape the early strategy for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, and has more recently been a principal in the ETIX Rockhouse Partners team here, has been named ETIX CEO. Release here.

Future B-round

It'll be 6 to 9 months from now, but a B-round is likely, says CEO Mark Harris, just after finishing his $500K A-round for NextGxDx, the online search/buy tool for genetic testing ordered for physicians' patients. Read about it.

StartupTN

Case Foundation CEO Jean Case (left) brought the Startup America banner to the Nashville Entrepreneur Center to help mark the one-year anniversary of StAM and the launch of StartupTN. Notes here.

Populr unveiled

Nick Holland will incubate and accelerate Populr within the Entrepreneur Center, with support from Bullpen Ventures. Story here.

NEC's PE sponsor

Galen Partners, the private-equity firm based in Stamford, Conn., is the 2012 healthcare vertical sponsor for Nashville Entrepreneur Center. Read more here.

LeanKit A-round

Chris Hefley, 36, is about to undertake a potentially life- and venture-changing event: The A-round that could propell globally his Nashville-centered Cloud-based startup, LeanKit... read about it here.

MidTN venture overload?

'Guess this means school's back in... so many things cookin' in the venture sphere... Clayton McWhorter's folks are taking a close look at go-forward staffing at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center.. JumpStart is about to make some of its acclerator grads happy.. TNInvestco's are putting money where their mouths are, investing in seed- and early-stage deals... eMIDs is part of a Chicago mentoring group.. Steve Collins caught the IPO brass ring... and much more right here.

Entrepreneur Center update

Mentors from the digital music and entertainment sectors are being recruited by Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Nashville Music Council to help e-startups get launched. Read about it here.

Venture events sked

Venture-oriented events in Metro/Nashville during April and May are listed here.

Lackey abuzz

Passport Health Communications Chairman Jim Lackey is feeling the excitement in Nashville entrepreneur circles, and gettin' way too busy. Read about it here.

Venture menagerie

We've got the jackrabbit at JumpStart Foundry, the Bull at Bizen and now the Bullpen Ventures mentoring and incubator program resident at NEC. Check out their release.

Being Michael Burcham: Leadership via Entrepreneur Center

Michael Burcham (at left), the often celebrated director of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, discusses not how he ticks, but why he ticks, right here on VentureNashville.

Entrepreneurship Week begins Monday, 15 November

Tennessee has a big footprint during Global Entrepreneurship Week, with the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, LaunchMemphis and a soon-to-debut WilliamsonInnovate website among highlights.

JumpStart Foundry at Entrepreneur Center

JumpStart Foundry and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center collaborated on First Pitch, where 13 entrepreneurs pitched their ideas. Erin Lawley at NashvillePost blogs it here.

Nashville Entrepreneur Center gets $100K TTDC grant

The Tennessee Technology Development Corporation board of directors today approved a $100K grant for the fledgling Nashville Entrepreneur Center, approved a number of contracts designed to education and mobilize the state's entrepreneurs and prepared for perhaps six weeks of tough slogging in the General Assembly, as TTDC competes for scarce state resources, to keep its work moving ahead. Our story is here.

McWhorter to lead Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Clayton McWhorter, entrepreneur and healthcare-services pioneer, has been named the first chairman of the board of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. See today's VNC story.

Entrepreneur Center Search update

Nashville Technology Council CEO Tod Fetherling tells VNC that Entrepreneur Center supporters have done well enough, already, to surpass their initial $200K target for raising money to enable the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce-linked EC to proceed with hiring its first executive director. Further, said Fetherling, there's now a strong field of candidates and someone could well be in-place by late January, and possibly announced even sooner. Fetherling said that Janet Miller has led the fundraising, with Fetherling and EC Project Manager Joe Kustelski also contributing to the effort.

CEO entrepreneurs on N'ville prospects

No one claims to have a crystal ball, but they all think the chances are good Nashville has a bright future -- Bobby Frist, Mike Shmerling, Sid Chambless, Mildred Walters, Jeff Cornwall, Joe Freedman... but, as always, there's value in the details. The details are here.

Entrepreneur Center exec search continues

VNC reports today that the search for a new executive director for the new Nashville Entrepreneur Center continues.

Elements Software, Brentwood

Judy Eads, a former nurse, has spent the last couple years developing software to support nurses care of long-term elderly patients. Eads' Elements Software LLC is backed by investors who own long-term care facilities. The NBJ reports in its Oct. 30 edition. Today's NBJ entrepreneurship package also includes items on Pathfinder Therapeutics, TNInvestco, TTDC, Nashville Capital Network and others.