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Chris Przybyszewski December 30, 2010 No Comments
From the Commercial Appeal, December 30, 2010, written by James Dowd. “Seed Hatchery’s grants will help entrepreneurs craft business plans” For a half-dozen lucky entrepreneurs, 2011 may just turn out to be a year of destiny.
September 22, 2010,11:30 a.m – 1:00 p.m. Moderator: Meri Armour President & CEO Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Panelists: Sheila Champlin Director, Communications & Marketing The University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) Beth Flanagan Director Memphis Medical Center Elizabeth Ostric Executive Director Medical Education & Research Institute (MERI) Laura S. Whitsitt Senior Vice President, Global [...]
Chris Przybyszewski December 15, 2009 One Comment
From James Dowd at the Commercial Appeal (published 12.9.2009): A spectacular failure. That’s how Chris Przybyszewski describes his startup venture into the world of iPhone apps. Although Resolute Games & Apps — the company Przybyszewski founded nearly two years ago — generated plenty of buzz after it created high-profile iPhone apps for Elvis and ArtsMemphis, [...]
Chris Przybyszewski November 23, 2009 2 Comments
From the Memphis Business Journal, Friday, October 16, 2009, by Michael Sheffield: “Medical corridor development projects air of viability in Memphis community” The recession may have crippled most new development across Memphis, but a drive through the city’s medical corridor tells a different story. There is currently $1.5 billion worth of development under way in [...]
By Michael Lollar, Memphis Commercial Appeal. In the 1950s, Elvis Presley had one of the first electronic watches. He would have one of the first mobile phones and a media room that let him watch or shoot three TV monitors at the same time. Beginning today, Elvis will have his own iPhone “app” to keep [...]
Chris Przybyszewski August 21, 2009 No Comments
By Toby Sells, Memphis Business Journal With a new name and a new game plan, InMotion Orthopedic Research Center is preparing for a local fundraising campaign in a “perfect storm” of industry and recession woes. Link to full story
If you eat Indian food, or if you want to try it, go to Golden India on Overton Square. It’s bar-none my favorite restaurant in Memphis, and served as possibly my number one feeling of ‘coming home.’ I lived in Philadelphia for six years, where I fell in love with Indian food (mmm, Tikka Masala [...]
Trey Heath, The Memphis Business Journal, 1.9.2009 Only a few weeks after Resolute Games Corp. CEO Chris Przybyszewski launched the company’s first game on Apple Corp.’s App Store, his phone began ringing. “People started asking us if we could do this or that (on the iPhone), but we would say no because we are a [...]
If you don’t think the city of Memphis offers opportunities for entrepreneurship, you’re not trying very hard. I would suggest, instead that you’re trying hard to ignore evidence to the contrary.
Lab”arrives” with orthopedic devices By Daniel Connolly | Commercial Appeal | March 3, 2009 Researchers at InMotion Musculoskeletal Institute have been productive lately — they presented five scientific posters and led one panel discussion at the recent Orthopaedic Research Society conference in Las Vegas. It’s a good result for the small independent laboratory, which was [...]
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