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This Rocket Scientist Is Helping Children Safely Connect With Tech In An 'Internet-Of-Kids' Platform

This Rocket Scientist Is Helping Children Safely Connect With Tech In An 'Internet-Of-Kids' Platform

Krissa Watry's career started in a less-traveled place — space. The MIT-educated rocket scientist spent nearly a decade in the aerospace sector as a U.S. Air Force officer and has worked in technology programs with the DoD, NASA, and commercial space industry, including launching satellites and sending items

Phishing Prevention Software Gyomo Teaches You to Detect Dangerous Links

Phishing Prevention Software Gyomo Teaches You to Detect Dangerous Links

Considering the fact that 91 percent of cyber attacks start with a phishing email, enterprises spend billions every year to train their employees on preventing phishing attacks. However, despite this training, data breaches continue to occur — current predictions put cybercrime costs at $2 trillion by 2019. While working at Bank

How This Butcher Startup Crafted A Personalized Direct-to-Consumer Experience Online

How This Butcher Startup Crafted A Personalized Direct-to-Consumer Experience Online

In 2010, caterers James Peisker and Chris Carter grew tired of their local grocery store's frozen, low-quality meat selection. To fill the gap, the founding duo opened a brick-and-mortar butcher shop in Nashville to oversee the process from farm to shop, where they hand cut all their meat

How A Corporate Investor's Priorities Differ From Other VCs' — And How to Appeal to Them

How A Corporate Investor's Priorities Differ From Other VCs' — And How to Appeal to Them

After spending time at a growth equity firm screening hundreds of companies through research and talking to CEOs, Jeff Flynn learned how to spot those companies that have a little something extra. Learning to have a point of view on how they stand out, shares Flynn, was a skill he

Georgia State Opens Incubator to Fill Business Knowledge Gaps For Student Founders

Georgia State Opens Incubator to Fill Business Knowledge Gaps For Student Founders

Georgia State University commitment to nurturing local talent beyond the standard education continues with the opening of its latest incubator, LaunchGSU. The 3000-square-foot business incubator invites any current student to apply to use the space and its resources to build their startup from the ground up. "The Provost recognized

This High Tech Greenhouse Is Harvesting Talent and Produce to Revitalize Eastern Kentucky

This High Tech Greenhouse Is Harvesting Talent and Produce to Revitalize Eastern Kentucky

The unemployment rate in Pike County, Kentucky is 8.7 percent. Kentucky-born Jonathan Webb graduated from University of Kentucky with an opportunity to go into coal sales — Kentucky is the third largest coal producing state, but turned it down in favor of pursuing a career path that promoted sustainability. After

Personality Discovery Startup Raises $5M Series B To Help You Get Along With Anyone

Personality Discovery Startup Raises $5M Series B To Help You Get Along With Anyone

Nashville-based personality startup Crystal has raised a $5 million Series B round from Birchmere Ventures, Falmouth Ventures (formerly CEB Ventures), HubSpot and Salesforce Ventures. Since launching in 2015, the machine learning platform has added over 2,000 customers. "We spent the last three years focused on product and technology,