Manuel Cuevas Has Been on Vacation for 85 Years The fashion designer who dressed Elvis, Johnny Cash, and the King of Morocco — and says he’s never worked a day in his life Manuel Cuevas is sitting at his... Continue Reading
The Best Pitch I Heard Last Week Came from a High Schooler Ashanti Was Eating Nachos and Pitching Her Bakery She had maybe two minutes between investor rotations. Enough time to refuel, check her notes, and get ready to explain why Ashantii’s... Continue Reading
Healthcare founders keep solving the wrong problem Three advisors, 22 companies, one room. Here’s what actually got said. Most startup advice is recycled. Know your customer. Find product-market fit. Tell your story. You’ve heard it. The problem... Continue Reading
What Building a Healthcare Company Taught 30 Founders in One Morning Saurabh Sinha didn’t bring a deck. He walked into the Nashville Entrepreneur Center on February 27 and sat down with 22 healthcare founders — people building burnout platforms, causal AI... Continue Reading
Meet the InFlight Spring 2026 Cohort The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s growth-stage accelerator — 19 companies scaling what works. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort Chase Michalek has founded multiple companies since 2019, including one sold to a... Continue Reading
Meet the TakeOff Spring 2026 Cohort The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s early-stage accelerator — 30 companies ready to build. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort In 2016, Jessika Cunningham arrived in the U.S. from Brazil through the Au... Continue Reading
Meet the Project Healthcare Spring 2026 Cohort The Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s healthcare accelerator — 22 companies building what’s next. Meet the Spring 2026 Cohort A practicing physician spent 17 years caring for the most medically fragile patients... Continue Reading
88 Founders Just Showed Up. Here’s What That Means for Nashville. Danny Glushenkov is flying from Tel Aviv to Nashville this week. His company, Project M, builds causal AI for real-time clinical decisions — not just predicting what might happen to... Continue Reading
Mental Health Is a Leadership Skill — And She Has the Experience to Prove It “You’re either going to slow down on your own or your body is going to slow you down.” Dr. Courtney Williams says this often. She says it to therapy clients,... Continue Reading