BEAM BRUSH in Fast Company!!?? OMG!! We KNOW them!
One of these days, I will be kicking back in a rocking chair on my front porch, braiding my granddaughter’s hair, watching people jetpack by on their way to work. She will turn to me and say, “Nana,...
View ArticleMonday Biz Briefing: More Main Street urban bourbon action, and Kevin...
Welcome to the Christmas Eve 2012 top secret, always confidential Monday Business Briefing. These are biz tips Insider Louisville staff and contributors have collected during the past few days, a few...
View ArticleQuantified Self Meetup: We've been doing it since Ben Franklin (or earlier)
The Quantified Self Movement is a fancy name for people who combine their interest in health and fitness with all of the tracking technology that has become available in the past couple of years. But...
View ArticleBeam Technologies rocks Rock Health's 4th graduating class, focuses on 'big...
(Correction: There were 14 members of the 4th graduating class. Story updated 3/4/13) When Alex Frommeyer, CEO of Beam Technologies, was out in San Francisco last year, he decided to drop in at Rock...
View ArticleKnew ‘em before they were famous, Pt. 2: Forbes Mag praises BEAM Technologies...
Full disclosure: Insider Louisville shares a floor in a NuLu building with BEAM Technologies‘ Alex Frommeyer, Alex Curry and Dan Sykes. We know they and their growing BEAM staff work around the clock …...
View Article‘We could own this’: 3D printing and additive manufacturing at the University...
“No one owns 3D and additive manufacturing,” says Timothy Gornet, the manager of Rapid Prototyping Center Operations. “We could own this. “Louisville could become where people go for this technology.”...
View ArticleIn other news… Jennifer Lawrence cuts her hair and we're in for another...
Here’s a look at Louisville news from around the internet and around the world for the week of April 26 … One More Year: ESPN, The Bleacher Report, USA Today, and anyone that covers sports in any way...
View ArticleNext #OpenCoffeeLou: Everything you need to know about Accelerators
Author’s aside: We missed a milestone at last #OpenCoffeeLou. This past Monday was our 26th meeting– that means we’ve been meeting on Monday mornings for half a year. Happy half-year anniversary! It’s...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 27: All about the new accelerator programs in the Louisville area
(Author’s note: actual headcount today was 29 people with five new faces. Thanks, Kelby Price!) This week we welcomed at least four new faces to #OpenCoffeeLou; enough new faces that we went around and...
View ArticleLaunchpad Lecture Series: BEAM CEO Alex Frommeyer presenting 'From Student to...
GLI’s EnterpriseCorp, the University of Louisville’s entrepreneurship program and Republic Bank have another 2013 Launchpad Lecture Series event scheduled for Thursday. Student led entrepreneurship is...
View ArticleRetail, public transport, drones and more retail: Pt. 1 of your (not quite)...
This is a project we’ve been putting together for a couple of weeks. And the IL staff would like to say collectively, “Thanks to everyone who took time to email us their ideas.” As we always say, the...
View ArticleAlex Frommeyer: “A daring entrepreneur with an innovative product can’t run...
By Alex Frommeyer, Beam Technologies The tech world continues to rave about “The Lean Startup,” the uber-popular book and company-building methodology coined by Silicon Valley heavyweights Eric Ries...
View ArticleEntrepreneur Alex Frommeyer: Thanks, Obamacare!
By Alex Frommeyer, CEO, BEAM Technologies I turn 26 today. Normally, this is a birthday like any other; I will be fielding texts, calls, and Facebook posts of friends and family throughout the day, and...
View ArticleAlex Frommeyer: ‘All of us have a stake in an effective patent system’
by Alex Frommeyer, CEO Beam Technologies As a startup founder in Kentucky’s science and technology sector, I have had the opportunity to develop many great relationships in the state with other...
View ArticleClimb the National City Tower: Fight for Air fundraiser for American Lung...
780 stairs. 38 floors. Louisville’s first American Lung Association Fight For Air stair climb hosted by the National City Tower is you and your team versus all those stairs. On Feb. 1, the Fight For...
View ArticleMonday Business Briefing: Revealed … Comfy Cow’s new Highlands corral
Welcome to the March 3 Monday Business Briefing. This is your private business intelligence briefing with Insider Louisville staff and contributors vetting tips collected during the past few days,...
View ArticleAlex Frommeyer: Stopping patent trolls could throw Kentucky’s entrepreneurs...
By Alex Frommeyer, BEAM Technologies Kentucky has a rich history, and an economy with many industries that contribute to it. Perhaps the single most important component of Kentucky’s 21st century is...
View ArticleAlex Frommeyer: Startup community will only progress if we face the hard...
Last Tuesday, Tom Guevara, deputy assistant secretary for Regional Affairs of the U.S. Economic Development Administration (pause for breath), was in Louisville on business. Long title aside, Tom’s job...
View ArticleBeam Technologies launches another company in Germantown
Last December, Beam Technologies vacated its prime NuLu real estate (and Insider Louisville moved in) and beamed on over to Germantown just off Goss Avenue. For months, we’ve been trying to leverage...
View Article#OpenCoffeeLou 66: Company talk with four CEOs and founders
There was a packed house at iHub today to hear from a panel of CEOs and founders from four of Louisville’s young technology companies: Dave Durand of Forest Giant Dominic Foster of NicView Alex...
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