Rich Bailey
Shaping the Urban Design Ecosystem
One of our newest startups is actually a reboot of one of the oldest players in the urban design ecosystem. The Chattanooga Design Studio was re-established in 2015 after an eight-year absence and moved into a storefront office on Cherry Street ... more »
Sep 7, 2016 1:01 PM Tech Talk
The Future of Gig-Enabled Telemedicine
Two of the Gig Tank teams that presented last night are working in slightly different corners of telemedicine. I interviewed founders of Docity and One-to-One Telehealth a few days before Pitch Night. Telemedicine itself is far from new ... more »
Jul 28, 2016 10:23 AM Tech Talk
Tech Dreams Are Made of This
More than other Gig Tank startups, Collider is the product of a collective dream. Several dreams, really. Unless you’ve just emerged from a Rip Van Winkle nap of a decade or two, you know the outlines of the 3-D printing dream ... more »
Jul 6, 2016 11:39 AM Tech Talk 1 Comments
Someone Fetch Me a Job
What if finding a job was as easy as finding a date online? You enter your criteria, let the algorithm do the heavy lifting, then check out potential suitors. The cute companies get your application, and the others ... more »
Jun 15, 2016 11:55 AM Tech Talk
Is This Your Grandma’s Virtual Reality?
The buzz around virtual reality has been changing. The potential and the prototypes have been around for decades, but the chatter has evolved from the technology itself—how the experience can be made ... more »
May 25, 2016 2:17 PM Tech Talk 1 Comments
Chattanooga’s Gig Tank Continues to Grow
What’s in a name? CoLab’s Gig Tank has been rechristened Gig Tank 365 and is migrating from a summer-only accelerator to a year-round program with two additional cohorts of technology startups in the spring and fall. more »
May 4, 2016 12:31 PM Tech Talk
All About Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Recently I started a conversation with Mike Bradshaw of CoLab about GigTank 365, the new year-round version of what used to be a summer business accelerator for companies that capitalize on Chattanooga’s ... more »
Apr 13, 2016 2:02 PM Tech Talk
Whose Gig Is It, Anyway?
“We, like all cities and counties, have an issue of a digital divide,” says Kelly McCarthy. “People throw the term around all the time, but I’m not a huge fan of the term.” And while some people dismiss the idea of a digital divide ... more »
Mar 23, 2016 10:45 AM Tech Talk
Are Nooga and New York Merging?
Matthew Dutton’s newest artistic report from his personal Bizarro World may be the next step in the mystical merger of Chattanooga and New York City. Wait! Don’t turn the page. Hear me out. I have evidence. more »
Mar 2, 2016 9:43 AM News, Views, Rants, Raves 1 Comments
The Speaker Is the Message
TEDx Chattanooga made its debut this past weekend, although it was actually the city’s second TEDx event. TED stands for “technology, entertainment, design.” The first one in 2014—known as TEDx UTChattanooga ... more »
Mar 2, 2016 9:43 AM Tech Talk
The Better to See You With (I Hope)
I need some help. I’ve got an idea for a new technology, and I need the right engineer to build a prototype. Pulse readers, you’re getting the first crack at it. Here’s the pitch. You know the gear an optometrist puts in front ... more »
Feb 10, 2016 12:50 PM Tech Talk
Local 'Net Radio Gets Ready
Chattanooga is just about to get a new radio station. Right after winning last December’s Will This Float? pitch competition, Undaground cofounders Dave Castaneda (technical director), Cole Sweeton (creative director) ... more »
Jan 20, 2016 12:03 PM Tech Talk
Combining Startups and Urban Design
Say you run a venture incubator: you grow companies for a living. You’ve been doing it long enough to have a diverse portfolio of growing startups. So your next move is obviously...real estate? more »
Dec 30, 2015 12:14 PM Tech Talk
Disrupting 16th-Century Tech
It’s both a bit strange and a perfectly sensible way to nurture a startup community: Throw a contest for best startup pitch, then give the winners some recognition—from both their soon-to-be peers and the broader community ... more »
Dec 16, 2015 1:21 PM Tech Talk
Op-Ed: Stop the Stationary Tsunami
A developer has proposed a seven-story, 140-unit residential building on Cowart Street, behind the row of older buildings anchored by Porker’s. The Planning Commission and the Regional Planning agency ... more »
Dec 9, 2015 11:44 AM News & Notes 3 Comments
Will This Float? Your Art Boat
Co.Lab’s Will This Float? business pitch competition returns next week for its fifth edition, this time primarily seeking promising ideas in music and entertainment, although other fields are also welcome. more »
Dec 2, 2015 1:42 PM Tech Talk
From Hobo To Hobeaux
If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world—so said poet Percy Shelley, therefore it must be true—then type designers must be the unacknowledged architects of the world. more »
Nov 18, 2015 12:12 PM Tech Talk
Blue Is for Tumor, Clear Is for Kidney
Chattanooga startup 3D Operations just announced a partnership with Erlanger Health System that’s both a giant step for the company and the next, logical step in its growth. more »
Nov 4, 2015 2:45 PM Tech Talk
Show Me the Selling!
What does selling look like? Maybe your internal Netflix shows you any of a thousand cheesy depictions of used-car wheeler dealers you’ve surely seen over the years. Or the lineup of talking heads at the Republican... more »
Oct 21, 2015 12:38 PM Tech Talk
Capture Got Gig
It may be too late to go out and get your cinematographer mojo on for Capture. The films are posted and the winner announced—but both the films and the process are still worth a look. more »
Oct 7, 2015 11:58 AM Tech Talk