By Lisa Monti, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, February 23, 2016. Raising capital for a startup is different for each entrepreneur and venture, but starting out on the right legal footing is a sure way to help smooth the process. Matthew McLaughlin, a shareholder and member of the Emerging Companies Team at…
Arkansas native has 35 years’ experience with Entergy JACKSON, Miss. – Entergy Corporation has named Charles Hall vice president, power plant operations for Mississippi. Previously, he served as power plant manager at Gerald Andrus plant in Greenville. “I am excited to see Charles in this important position. He is a…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, February 17, 2016: Over a five-day period ending last week an amazing thing happened. Millions of people followed updates on Twitter and Periscope and waited in anticipation for daily podcasts about a legal hearing. This was a hearing that wasn’t televised, wasn’t about a celebrity, and was…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, February 10, 2016: In case you’ve not been paying attention for the last 10 years, distracted driving is a problem that has reached epic proportions on America’s roadways. Sure, there have always been distractions to drivers. Believe it or not, I used to pass the same…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, February 4, 2016: For a technology that is more than 30 years old, 3D printing is getting a lot of buzz lately and is now finally becoming truly transformative across a broad spectrum of industries. Perhaps the most revolutionary evolution of 3D printing is that it’s…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist, Mississippi Business Journal Feature, News, Opinion, Technology, January 28, 2016. As we look at what innovations we may expect to emerge across our state in 2016, I would like to share some of the topics which I encountered at the Rural Opportunity Investment Conference in Memphis and…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, January 26, 2016: The popularity of the ABC show “Shark Tank” has made it a lot easier for us to explain what we do at Innovate Mississippi. We can now half-jokingly tell people, “We’re a lot like a ‘Shark Tank’ for Mississippi, except our entrepreneurs…
By Ted Carter, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, January 21, 2016. Ole Miss football isn’t the university’s only up-and-comer on the national stage. While Hugh Freeze and his coaching crew have instilled the kind of excellence that gave the football team victories in consecutive years over the likes of the…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, January 20, 2016: I was at Gov. Phil Bryant’s inauguration last week and I listened with interest to his inaugural address when he went so far as to label Mississippi as “The Start-up State.” His exact line called for the audience to imagine “what I have…
In last week’s article I mentioned that Innovate Mississippi took a delegation of five companies to the International Consumer Electronics Show. I think all five companies made some good connections and I’ll talk more about those companies, their technologies and what they are up to in future articles. While it’s…