Resource Directory
BarCamp is Nashville’s free “un”-conference for the digital and technical community. BarCamp has become the premier technology conference in Nashville, bringing together the best minds and representation of the hottest companies in the internet, entrepreneurial, new media, and software industries, among others.
The SCORE Association is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to education and counseling of entrepreneurs, growing, solving challenges to their business or forming new businesses, in the small business community. Nashville SCORE is one chapter in a national network of nearly 400 chapters. Our service area is Nashville, TN and the nearly 30 counties comprising middle Tennessee. SCORE is a US Small Business Administration (SBA) resource partner.
Venture Nashville Connections provides a wide range of management, advisory and corporate communications and development services for companies, institutions and agencies.
The TSBDC is a network of professional business consultants with 12 centers and 2 satellite offices in 14 cities throughout the State of Tennessee. The TSBDC prides itself on providing expert business advice to all types of businesses whether you are a manufacturer, retailer, service provider, or a professional; we are here to help you help yourself.
Accelerator—Vanderbilt Summer Business Institute is an intensive immersion in business designed exclusively for undergraduates and recent grads in all majors. In four fast-paced weeks at the Owen Graduate School of Management some of the top young minds from around the globe are immersed in real-world consulting roles for companies, helping to solve issues in marketing, logistics, finance, operations and branding.
Mind2Marketplace (M2M) is an organization dedicated to bringing the brightest and best ideas in middle Tennessee to reality. M2M strategically links people and organizations to bring innovation and technology to the marketplace.
M2M covers the 40-county area in middle Tennessee surrounding Nashville, TN, with a diagonal connection to partners at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN, and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.
NBIC provides management and technical assistance, shared support services, and professional advisement to start-up businesses that are housed in the Center.
Business students come to Belmont and study entrepreneurship for a variety of reasons. Some want to start their own business, others want special training for a family business, and still others know they simply do not want to work for anyone else. If you identify with one or more of these reasons, consider joining one of the fastest growing majors in the nation, at one of the strongest programs available — the Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Business Administration at Belmont University.
Digital Nashville is a member-based community of digital media professionals in Nashville, TN. Our mission is to connect, strengthen and grow the digital community, including digital expertise, use and opportunities, throughout Greater Nashville. Our core services are designed to connect and support the experts shaping the future of digital business, content and technology in Nashville, as well as the business professionals needing their help.
The Angel Capital Group started as a small Angel network in Sumner County, TN in May of 2007 with 22 members. In 2008, expanded its services to provide educational and support functions to various communities to aid in establishing Angel investor networks. In addition to the support functions, ACG links all of these networks together through one source so that capital and resources can be efficiently utilized to best aid as many entrepreneurs in finding start-up and seed capital as possible and to provide investors with a diversified capital investment process to mitigate risk.
Small business is integral to the Chamber and the Nashville-area economy. The Chamber‘s membership foundation is built on small and entrepreneurial businesses; approximately 90 percent of our member companies employ fewer than 100 people. Chamber membership benefits include educational resources, leadership and networking opportunities for small business owners and their employees.
The Tennessee Center for Policy Research is an independent, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to providing concerned citizens, the media and public leaders with expert empirical research and timely free market policy solutions to public policy issues in Tennessee.
The Tennessee Technology Development Corporation is a private, 501(c)3 corporation created by the Tennessee State Legislature in 1998 and tasked with implementing an innovation-based economic development agenda throughout the state. We are aligned with and complementary to State Economic and Community Development Department programs. In 2007, TTDC was revitalized with a $5M investment from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. We aspire to exceed expectations on returns for state investments in innovation economic development and earn a reputation of doing “more with less”.
The Nashville Technology Council, an affiliate of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, is an exclusive, C6 nonprofit organization devoted to helping the Middle Tennessee technology community succeed. Membership is open to technology companies, technology employers, service providers, educational institutions, and non-profit companies interested in supporting the growth of technology businesses in Middle Tennessee.
