Kentucky Bioscience Report

2008 Company Profiles

Startup Weekend-Lex
Startup Weekend was held in Lexington this past weekend for the second time.  The ideas brought forth for the weekend included: Digital Daddy – a brand for role model Dad’s that will include content such as videos, audio podcasts, and more Wedding Memories – a smart phone wedding photography system that turns your wedding guests into your photographers.

Five companies receive matching funds
The following five companies received matching funds through the state’s program to match federal SBIR/STTR awards: Adaptive Intelligent Systems, established in Lexington in 2005, is developing innovative, intelligent sensing and control technologies that help improve welding quality and productivity.  SureGene, of Louisville, is developing and commercializing its AssureGene™ test, the fir

Louisville’s Hot Dozen
The Enterprise Corp., a division of Greater Louisville Inc., the metro chamber of commerce, has released its “2009 Hot Dozen” list of fast-growing, locally owned entreprenurial companies. • Achieve CCA Inc.; • Hello Metro Inc.; • 

Advantage of being a Startup outside the valley
The following post by Ali Davar , CEO of Worio, a Vancouver-based startup creating a new category of personalized Web search highlights many of the advantages that I have been preaching about when your high-tech startup is not located in Silicon Valley (or Boston, Austin, Boulder etc).  Also some valuable tips about how to stay relevant in the valley when you are not located there. Avoid the “Valley premium” – Startups that set

Comparing entrepreneurial cultures
Below are some excerpts from an article on xconomy about the startup scenes in Boston, Boulder and Seattle.  I highlighted the statements I thought were important to or resembled Kentucky and other areas trying build high-tech ecosystems. Brad Feld of TechStars and Foundry Group gave a brief history of the startup scene in Boulder, CO—useful for any city with entrepreneurial aspirations. “When I showed up in ’95, what I found was on the software side you had a lot of smart