We are happy to announce some exciting news at Next Gear Solutions. We have decided to partner with Serent Capital, a Private Equity firm in San Francisco, CA. This partnership represents the latest in a series of humbling confirmations that the Next Gear team is on the right path and…
By Josh Mabus, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, April 8, 2016. It’s a lot easier to fail than to be labeled a quitter, but how often is someone else’s definition of failure simply our best excuse to quit? Leaving something behind is easier when we can say we gave it…
Mississippi State’s ‘Car of the Future’ revealed in Detroit. STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Mississippi State University is showcasing its "Car of the Future" this week in Detroit, Michigan, during an event designed to bring together the best talent in the automotive industry. MSU researchers from the university's Center for Advanced Vehicular…
The College of Business at The University of Southern Mississippi will conclude the Executives On: Lecture Series for spring 2016 on Tuesday, April 19 at the Gulf Park campus in Long Beach. “Executives On: Entrepreneurship” will be held from noon – 1:15 p.m. in Hardy Hall, University Club. Guest speakers…
By Jack Weatherly, Mississippi Business Journal, Feature Article, April 8, 2016. The stream of millions of U.S. jobs going overseas has stopped, according to a report from the Chicago-based Reshoring Initiative. The net gain on reshoring and foreign investment in the United States was measured at 67,000 jobs nationwide in 2015,…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, April 6, 2016: Last week I wrote about how “the idea” isn’t the most important element leading to the success of a technology startup. I should come clean and say that of the more than 1,200 Mississippi startups we’ve helped through Innovate Mississippi, many…
Support to Jobs for America’s Graduates Helps Boost Education, Economic Development Jackson, Mississippi – Expanding workforce training and readiness programs in Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana is the purpose of a new $250,000 grant to Jobs for America’s Graduates from Entergy Corporation. The grant, funded by shareholders, was announced by Entergy…
By Bracey Harris, The Clarion-Ledger, March 31, 2016: An Oxford based startup is monetizing the oft-heard phrase, “I wish I could look in her closet.” Launched in late January, Nimble Fashion is a wardrobe sharing app allowing users to browse and rent dresses from others within their community. Initially only available in…
Posted by: Contributing Columnist, Mississippi Business Journal Feature, News, Technology, March 24, 2016. Continuing the theme of public-private partnerships, we saw from the Butterfly Model in my last column that there are four sets of players who are critical to building successful partnerships. These are 1) entities such as federal,…
Posted by: Contributing columnist, Clarion-Ledger, Business, March 30, 2016: Some readers may know that I’ve sometimes described Innovate Mississippi as “Mississippi’s Shark Tank.” Now that ABC’s “Shark Tank” is so popular, it makes it easy to explain in a few words that part of what we do. In reality, that’s only…