Startups

Have you always wanted to start a business, but weren't quite sure where to go to get started?

The *new* Nashville Entrepreneur Center can help direct you to the resources you need to get your business going.

All too often, companies try to be "everything" to "everybody" and don't know a darn thing about what their customers want, what they do, or what keeps them up at night.

This session will provide basic product management methodology concepts to the small, medium or large business (or those wanting to be a small, medium or large business). We will talk about the 80/20 rule and the concept of 'FIRING' (yes you heard it here) your customers.

Time permitting, we will cure world hunger and invent a vaccine to prevent H1N1.

Sure work must get done, but who said you had to do it all yourself?!? We all have portions of our professional life we would love to hand off to someone else, leaving us with more time to focus on our core competencies.

If you are an entrepreneur, starting a business, you realize there are a lot of things that must get done just to get your business off the ground. Sure, you could spend months preparing to launch your business doing all the work yourself, but business requires speed! You need help & virtual assistants are the answer.

Over the last three years, Nashville has made a quantum leap in its digital community. The awareness of social media, digital marketing and web 2.0 has infused every industry and sector of our great city. But now that the desire to innovate on these platforms has reached a critical point (Nashville Startup Weekend 2, Digital Nashville, Barcamp Nashville 3, Digital Music Summit, Next Big Nashville, etc.), will we have the technical expertise at the C-level and the depth of developers to actually execute our ideas?

Your intellectual property can create value or cost you. In the digital explosion, protecting it has never been more important. We'll explain why and how.

An overview of intellectual property including copyrights, trademarks, patents and trade secrets with practical tips about legal protections in the 21st century.

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Typically, I'm the one telling people "if it was easy, everybody would do it". Unfortunately, I didn't heed my own advice. When I fell into a chance to build an iPhone game, I thought "shouldn't be too hard."

One year later, I'm kicking myself at the time, money, and overall CRAZINESS that goes into developing a mobile app (specifically, an iPhone game called gpsAssassin). I'll share every terrible, back-breaking mistake I made trying to finish what was supposed to be a 3 month project :)