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Feb
Episode 14: Startups Get Lots of Resources
February 24, 2015 WUTC.org News
Launch is an organization that aggressively seeks out disadvantaged individuals in underserved neighborhoods and teaches them how to start and manage their own small businesses. Co-Founder Hal Bowling has helped change lives by helping people achieve financial stability through both part-time and full-time business ownership. Hal works with the unemployed and underemployed in 4 key…
14
Feb
Entrepreneur launches nonemergency transporation business
February 14, 2015 Nooga.com News
Entrepreneur Robin Davis was getting ready for an empty nest as her teenage daughter prepared to graduate high school. But after spending the past decades focused on her daughter, she wanted to find something to do when her daughter left. "I have been praying about it and asking God to show me something that can help the community," she said. The health care industry veteran saw a…
12
Feb
LAUNCH Entrepreneur Celebrates Grand Opening
February 12, 2015 Chattanoogan.com News
LAUNCH entrepreneur Robin Davis will celebrate the Grand Opening of her business, Loving Hands Helping Hearts Transportation this month. After more than 20 years in the medical industry, Ms. Davis decided it was time for a change. She was inspired by a patient that came to her office, and shortly thereafter learned about the LAUNCH Business Entrepreneurship Academy. Ms. Davis got more…
10
Feb
City, chamber leaders work to support diversity in business
February 10, 2015 Nooga.com News
Dipped Fresh co-owner Antonia Poland used to wonder how other business owners got in on certain opportunities. She would hear about events and wonder how her business could have gotten the chance to cater for it. But as a new business owner, she didn't really know where to start. That was in 2012. Since then, help from city and chamber leaders has helped her business flourish. …
5
Feb
Chattanooga boosts purchases from minority businesses
February 5, 2015 Times Free Press News
Chattanooga has hit one of its goals for working with diverse businesses in the city four months early. According to City Spokeswoman Lacie Stone, more than 14 percent of the companies the city does business with have African American, Latino, Asian, female or veteran owners. In April, 2013, that number was 2 percent. The city set the goal of 14 percent by June. Since Jan. 1, the city has spent…
21
Jan
Academic Solutions Expands to Second Location
January 21, 2015 Chattanoogan.com News
Individuals and families in the Downtown, North Shore, Signal Mountain, Red Bank and Mountain Creek areas now have a location to meet their academic challenges with Academic Solutions. Whether a student needs subject tutoring or test prep help, tutors bring to the table decades of experience helping students who struggle academically, as well as challenging high academic achievers to more…
