The following is the first in a series of 3 guest blog posts by Cliff McKinney co-founder of Work for Pie, a Memphis-based startup. cliff@workforpie.com I’m Cliff. I’m an entrepreneur here in Memphis. My company is Work for Pie. You can check it out at workforpie.com. I used to teach high school. 9th grade. It was [...]
Dress for Success participants recently celebrated graduation from the program which took place over an 8-week period this summer at Autumn Ridge Apartment Community in the Hickory Hill community. The program was entitled the “Going Places Network” by Dress for Success, which was funded by a generous grant from Walmart. The mission of Dress for [...]
Memphis was recently ranked 18th out of 35 major American cities in Creative Cities International’s “Vitality Index”. At #18, Memphis ranked above Dallas (19), Portland (25), and Miami (28), among others. The top 5 cities were: Chicago, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston, respectively. Criteria for judging Vitality included civic aspects such as: -Public [...]
“Memphis is still very much in the early stages of these great developments and although momentum is being built, we are far from where we need to be. The envelope must continue to be pushed to advance entrepreneurship.”
On May 22, Sunshine Enterprises CEO Wei Chen embarked upon an historic global flight, circumnavigating the earth over the course of ten weeks, with stops in 40+ cities, in a single engine plane! When he lands again on Memphis soil on Friday, July 29 at 10:30am he will be the first Chinese citizen to accomplish [...]
As a young child I always dreamed of one day being able to own my own business. Based on what is portrayed on TV, in movies, and some real life scenarios, the successful individuals you come across are those who own their own business. Whether it be an insurance company or having ones own dental [...]
This past Tuesday, I attended the StartupTN announcement, held at The Entrepreneur Center in Nashville. This is an exciting time for entrepreneruship in Tennessee and Governor Haslam’s initiative is sure to spawn further interest in starting up in our state. The day began with a presentation by the state’s Economic and Community Development Commissioner, Bill [...]
A dream came true. For years, Methodist Hospice has had the vision of building a special place to cherish life. This morning there was a grand celebration as the new Methodist Hospice Residence, located at 6416 Quince Road in Memphis, opened its doors. “While we may not be able to predict the number of days a [...]
The Mid-South Minority Business Council’s (MMBC) Center for Emerging Entrepreneurial Development (CEED), operates the Mid-South’s only incubator that promotes Minority and Female owned early-stage businesses in traditionally under-served industries. Named after the first African-American millionaire in the South, the Robert R. Church Training Center was founded in 2007 and is funded by the MemphisED through [...]
On May 22, Sunshine Enterprise founder and CEO Wei Chen set off on an ambitious journey: to circle the globe in a single-engine plane, stopping in 40+ cities in 21 countries, over the course of only ten weeks. When he lands again on Memphis soil he will be the first Chinese citizen to accomplish such [...]
