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Nov
LAUNCH Academy Helps Give Life to Entrepreneurs' Ideas
November 24, 2015 Nooga.com News
The LAUNCH Business Entrepreneurship Academy helped recent graduates get a step closer to their dreams, participant Nancy Green said. "I am so grateful for this program, for those around the table who shared their dreams with me, and for those of you who worked with us [and helped make me] feel brave, more confident and empowered," she said at last week's program graduation. Twenty…
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Oct
Launch and The Chattery Partner to Help Chattanooga Entrepreneurs
October 7, 2015 Times Free Press News
Every company has to pay attention to three things to thrive: marketing, operations and finance. Not every business owner is good at all of them, and most are probably good at only one. That's an estimation that Launch's vice president of operations, Marco Perez, thinks is true. It's also one he's hoping to shift locally, for at least some entrepreneurs. Perez will lead one of three distinct…
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Oct
The Chattery, LAUNCH Partner to Offer Classes for Entrepreneurs
October 6, 2015 Nooga.com News
Chattanooga nonprofits The Chattery and LAUNCH are partnering to offer classes for entrepreneurs through the Life After LAUNCHing series. "Chattanooga is extremely startup-friendly, and our hope is to help foster that environment by offering a comfortable place for an entrepreneur to come and receive advice or explore business topics on a more in-depth level," The Chattery founder Jennifer…
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Oct
LAUNCH and The Chattery Team Up for Life After LAUNCHing
October 1, 2015 Chattanoogan.com News
Local nonprofits LAUNCH and the Chattery are partnering to offer a Life After LAUNCHing series. These classes, aimed at entrepreneurs, will be a continuing education series covering a variety of business topics. All classes will take place at LAUNCH’s office, located within Chattanooga WorkSpace, and will be taught by various business leaders and experts from the Chattanooga community. The…
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Sep
LAUNCH Builds Basics for Budding Entrepreneurs
September 12, 2015 Times Free Press News
Plenty of people have business ideas, but few know how to put them into practice. Launch, a Chattanooga-based nonprofit organization, can help. "Specifically, we're looking at underserved communities where there aren't the same amount of resources and access to some of the support for entrepreneurs as there are in other parts of the city," said Hal Bowling, Launch's executive director. Fostering…
In our second installment of The Leap, which explores startups and entrepreneurship in our community, our host, James Chapman talks to the team at LAUNCH, an organization that provides business classes, resources and support to entrepreneurs in Chattanooga’s underserved neighborhoods. Watch the video at GreaterChattanooga.org.