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I’m always on the lookout for patterns in the books that appeal to me. Here are three recent technology books that jumped out and made me read them. Douglas Rushkoff was one of the first writers to try to understand digital culture, starting with ... more

Jan 11, 2017 11:08 AM Tech Talk

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During the first years of GigTank, a handful of female business leaders saw a deficit of women founding companies in Chattanooga’s start-up scene. So, naturally they formed a startup themselves to change that. more

Dec 21, 2016 11:19 AM Tech Talk

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Thinking about innovation in Chattanooga, it’s easy for me to get lost in context. How does being in this place nurture this company? How does it work, this set of concrete relationships and abstract power dynamics that we call an entrepreneurial ... more

Nov 9, 2016 12:49 PM Tech Talk

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Inside a quirky little stone building on South Broad Street, with a door framed by Steve Terlizzese’s mosaic art, a young web developer is hatching a project to teach kids in Chattanooga how to use professional grade ... more

Oct 19, 2016 1:52 PM Tech Talk

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A few months ago, I wrote about a pair of MIT grad students in Gig Tank developing a company to make virtual reality experiences available to elderly people living in long-term care communities. This column is an unplanned sequel: the winner ... more

Sep 28, 2016 1:29 PM Tech Talk

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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“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

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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 City Life 1 Comments

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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