Andre Fowlkes

(Memphis Daily News) Education reform has been alive and well here in Memphis over the last few years. There have been many great initiatives established to secure dollars and establish programming to move our youth forward. As always, I am thinking of scale, sustainability and innovation to stay relevant. Teach for America is one effort […]

(Memphis Daily News) “I Choose Memphis” spotlights Memphians who are passionate about calling this community home. New Memphis Institute provides the profiles. Name: Hillary Quirk Job title and company: Community Manager, Start Co. Length of time living in Memphis: 5 years Life history: I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and moved to Memphis to attend

(The Tennessean) In my last column, I wrote about the progress that Tennessee’s network of accelerators has made since 2012 and the new “Accelerator 2.0” structure. Six accelerators across the state are in the middle of industry-specific summer cohort programs: Jumpstart Foundry in Nashville, ZeroTo510 and the Start Co. programs in Memphis, autoXLR8R in Spring

Silicon Valley is a sort of Mecca for startups. Facebook, Google, Apple: It’s enough to make a budding techie salivate. But Silicon Valley should watch out for “Bluff Valley:” Memphis was named one of the top ten places for startups by a recent NerdWallet study. “We have one team from Silicon Valley, we have two

America’s startup scene is getting bigger by the day. Hundreds of incubators and accelerators are helping businesses around the country, with many of the biggest programs centered in New York or the San Francisco Bay Area. But that doesn’t mean you have to go to the coasts to get your business started. Plus, taking your

(WMC) – Did you know that Memphis could be one of the best places to start up a business? According to CNN Money, it ranks as one of the top 10 cities in the country. Start Co. is a company, located in Downtown Memphis, that makes it their job to help get new businesses off

Next week, a venture called MadeIn is launching a new shopping platform in Memphis to connect people to a website where they can buy and sell local goods. The venture is a digital platform that will act as a kind of local version of Amazon, and MadeIn creator Jennifer Sadler said her startup also will

Memphians know that blues and barbecue aren’t the only things made in Memphis. Now, the startup online marketplace MadeIn brings locally made products to visitors and natives alike. The website’s platform offers a selection of items for individual sale and curated boxes. Founder and CEO Jennifer Sadler got her start with making City Boxes, a