Andre Fowlkes

LaunchMemphis and Memphis Bioworks host Early Shares, a crowdfunding company based in Miami, on Monday, August 6. Early Shares founder and CEO Maurice Lopes will discuss crowdfunding, the JOBS Act, SEC regulations and more at this FREE event held at Bioworks. As a bonus, you might see presentations from a few of our brightest startups! […]

Here are our suggestions on how you structure your pitch to investors.  Regardless of what stage your business is at, if you can answer these questions clearly, you will convince others that your startup is ready for them to join, whether it is as an investor or as a team member.  Mind you that some

Our fall 2012 season of entrepreneurship is so good, it deserves a party! Join LaunchMemphis on Wednesday, August 15 for our fall lineup (including a few BIG surprises!), celebration of Memphis entrepreneurship and innovation, hors d’oeuvres and specialty cocktails from Chef Michael Patrick, DJ Justin Baker, door prizes, our new swag and demos from local

Executive coach Michael Synk of In-Synk hosts a monthly book review with a twist: you don’t have to read the book! Instead Michael walks through Synk Notes (if you’ve been in high school you understand the reference) and discussion around key texts in the business world. On Friday, July 13 he covers Eric Ries’ The

LaunchMemphis and the Memphis Music Foundation have teamed up before to bring you Memphis Music Launch, a twist on our 48 Hour Launch during which artists and industry members pitch music concepts and over a weekend convert them into written, performed, and recorded singles. And now we’ve teaming up for a decidedly more social purpose:

LaunchYourCity, Inc. co-president Andre Fowlkes presents the second in a series of guest posts for the Harvard Kennedy Business School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. LYC has had the opportunity to work closely with the Ash Center around their Project on Social Innovation and Stephen Goldsmith’s The Power of Social Innovation. You can