Sparking Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Alabama
Episode 21 of the Ignite Alabama podcast features Sheree Martin’s conversation with Jack West, CEO and founder of Book-it Legal, an innovative startup in the legal space. Book-it Legal is a marketplace startup that helps law firms hire law students to do legal research, legal writing, and other related work. Jack is a lawyer who spent […]
Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. was formed in 2008 to commercialize technology developed by UAB researchers. This HSC™ Technology helps to deal with a bottleneck in pharmaceutical R&D–the identification of appropriate biologic solutions to deliver protein-based drugs. The HSC™ Technology also has industrial applications. In 2010 Dr. Joseph M. Garner came on board as CEO of Soluble Therapeutics, Inc. […]
Welcome to episode 14 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. This week’s guest is Antonio Montoya, an entrepreneur and one of the forces behind the Rocket Hatch, a startup and creative community in Huntsville, Alabama. Rocket Hatch Investor Day The Rocket Hatch Investor Day is set for Thursday, September 10, 2015. The Investor Day event […]
In this preview episode of Ignite Alabama, released July 2, 2015, Sheree gives some background on her early professional career as a business lawyer. Some of the biographical / profile information is a bit outdated as of June 2016 and the episode will be updated to reflect new circumstances. Sheree talks about how her career […]
Episode 21 of the Ignite Alabama podcast features Sheree Martin’s conversation with Jack West, CEO and founder of Book-it Legal, an innovative startup in the legal space. Book-it Legal is a marketplace startup that helps law firms hire law students to do legal research, legal writing, and other related work. Jack is a lawyer who spent […]
Taylor Phillips, managing director of the new 501(c)(3) nonprofit Futureproof Bama is the guest on Episode 20 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. The mission of Futureproof Bama is to raise awareness of “technological unemployment” and help Alabama quickly prepare for what I like to call the 21st century economy. Alabama has, at most, a 10-year […]
I plan to migrate the Birmingham Shines podcast back catalog to this website. Eventually, each episode will get its own page on this site, with an embedded player for streaming. All Birmingham Shines podcast episodes are available through iTunes, Soundcloud and Stitcher, and any podcast app of your choice. In the meantime, here’s a sample: […]
The business side of sustainable farming is the focus of episode 19 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. My guests are Matthew & Jesie Lawrence, owners of Marble Creek Farmstead and owners of a majority interest in the new USDA-certified Pell City Processing at The Trading Post. We don’t talk about it in the episode but […]
In this week’s show you’re going to get a taste of some of the innovative ideas in development by a few of Alabama’s brightest startups delivered at the Birmingham Venture Club’s first startup pitch event. The Birmingham Venture Club was kind enough to let me attend the first round of the inaugural Spark Match Pitch […]
Huntsville’s Rocket Hatch Will This Fly 2016 pitch competition is set for Saturday, May 7, at the Stone Event Center, Campus 805. The pitch competition is part of Innovate Huntsville 2016. Will This Fly showcases up-and-coming innovators based on a pre-selection process. 16 Semi-finalists (listed below) will compete to pitch to a jury that includes […]
Jason Maddox, president of Vulcan Security Systems, in Birmingham, Alabama talks about IP video surveillance security technology and the commercial video security solutions his company provides. Clients include small manufacturers and industrial operations, warehouses, shopping centers, retail establishments, churches, daycare facilities, private schools and similar enterprises. Learn more about Vulcan Security Systems services, applications and technology. THIS EPISODE CONSISTS OF […]
George Kobler, an attorney in Huntsville, Alabama whose practices in the area of intellectual property, is the guest on episode 16 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. IP law encompasses patents, which is the focus of today’s conversation, as well as copyright law, trademarks, and proprietary information that falls within the realm of trade secrets. In […]
Episode 15 of the Ignite Alabama podcast is a quick recap of two panel discussions from Rocket Hatch’s Investor Day about how to pitch to and work with VCs and angel investors. I’m giving you these takeaways in list format, and not necessarily in order. Since there was a lot of back-and-forth and echoing of […]
Welcome to episode 14 of the Ignite Alabama podcast. This week’s guest is Antonio Montoya, an entrepreneur and one of the forces behind the Rocket Hatch, a startup and creative community in Huntsville, Alabama. Rocket Hatch Investor Day The Rocket Hatch Investor Day is set for Thursday, September 10, 2015. The Investor Day event […]
In this bonus episode of the Ignite Alabama podcast, Deon Gordon & Nichol Welty of REV Birmingham deliver the when, what and how to submit your business idea to the 2015 Big Pitch Competition. PNC has put up $25,000 in prize money for this year’s event. The deadline for applications is currently set for […]
To Your Health Sprouted Flour Company in Fitzpatrick Alabama is the recipient of the Alabama Launchpad 2015 award for Outstanding Achievement in Innovative Manufacturing. These awards will be presented at Alabama Launchpad’s annual Innovation event, September 2 in Birmingham. Today’s guest is Peggy Sutton, who co-founded To Your Health Sprouted Flour Company with her husband […]
E. J. Reedy of the Kauffman Foundation is the guest to talk about the 2015 Kauffman Index of Startup Activity. We cover the Index methodology and look at some of the characteristics of Alabama’s dismal 49th place ranking. You can read and download the complete Kauffmann Foundation Startup Index reports here. We also talk about […]
Greg Sheek, director of Launchpad Programs, gives us an in-depth look at the Alabama Launchpad, a program of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama. In this week’s show, Greg describes the Launchpad startup competition, time frame for submission (currently running 3 times per year), and the types of feedback that entrepreneurs who go through the […]
Tony Megna, founder of BDI Labs, is the guest on episode 9 of Ignite Alabama. He gives a look at MediaBit, the main product in the Internet of Things product line that BDI Labs will roll out over the next few years. BDI Labs, based in Huntsville, Alabama, recently finished its season with the GIGTANK […]
