Sept. 20-22: Start Yourself Up – Startup Weekend Is Back
The global movement Startup Weekend is back in Louisville and actively signing up participants. Start, grow and pitch your business with other talented entrepreneurs, advisers and supporters. Brought...
View ArticleCatching Up With Dov Rosenberg of VC Allos Ventures
OPM Financial’s Joe Dover – you’ve met him, right? He’s everywhere – spends a few minutes with Dov Rosenberg of VC Allos Ventures, gauging Dov’s take on the regional startup community and his best […]
View ArticleTwo More Crowdfunding Panels on Tap
September seems to be the month for crowdfunding education. Along with the Sept. 23 CommonWealth Crowdfunding event, two excellent panels are scheduled in Lexington: Wednesday, Sept. 11 A Capital Idea:...
View ArticleMedaCheck vs. Apple
MedaCheck, a Cincinnati-based company founded by Jeffrey Shepard, is taking a page from the Steve Jobs playbook: A great product and great software are only as good as the hardware that delivers them....
View ArticleGet Your IdeaFestival Passes, Too
While you’re buying your CommonWealth Crowdfunding seminar tickets, be sure to buy your pass for IdeaFestival, too. Our event is considered part of IdeaFestival, so you might as well take advantage of...
View ArticleSept. 23: Equity Crowdfunding – Ready, Set, Fundraise
Hey now! The ’Ville is attracting some heavy equity-fundraising hitters, beginning with the No. 2 ranked – they’re already ranked? – equity crowdfunding guru Jonathan Sandlund (below) from...
View ArticleOn Turning 21: Advice to a Younger Self
By Kent Oyler Last month I delivered two of three daughters to their respective colleges, including my youngest. Between ruminations on the joy of an empty nest and the pain of chronic mal-tuition, I...
View ArticleVC Immortal
By Kent Oyler It’s all too rare that you hear the words “nice guy” uttered in the same breath as “Venture Capitalist.” The stereotype is quite different. Perhaps that’s a vestige typecast of VCs […]
View ArticleLet the 2014 Crowdfunding Rule Games Begin
By Kent Oyler Stand back; this is going to get big. The hysterics around equity crowdfunding (ECF), I mean. The SEC may have taken its sweet time drafting up the proposed rules for Title III […]
View ArticleThe Tiger in the Room
By Kent Oyler Ignorance is bliss; and it’s also quietly dangerous. This time I’m talking about China. I’ve just returned from a few days in Beijing. I was totally overwhelmed by the sheer scale […]
View ArticleSpecial Delivery: Myles Stivers!
OPM announces expansion plans for the spring of 2030! But for now, we’ve got a very exciting expansion announcement for our outstanding accountant Brian Stivers. Join us in congratulating Brian on a...
View ArticleCheryl Paul Joins Client Services Team
We’ve got a new face at OPM Financial, and everyone is excited to have her. Cheryl Paul, a Mt. Washington native, has lived and breathed accounting for the past 25 years. In her own […]
View ArticlePillGuard Seeks S&M Assistant
Hey all you sales and marketing assistant types! PillGuard’s looking for you! This L’ville-based company, which makes electronically programmed medication dispensers, needs a self-motivated,...
View ArticleLet the 2014 Crowdfunding Rules Games Begin
The SEC’s approval of equity crowdfunding rules in late October captured quite a bit of media attention for our CommonWealth Crowdfunding crew, including this interview with Business First’s Kevin...
View ArticleWhy Insurance Coverage Is Critical for Investor-Backed Startups
Got coverage? If you’re investing in a startup, you’d be wise to get it. Join us and learn more about directors and officers insurance, employment practices, fiduciary responsibilities, cyber liability...
View ArticleMeasure-ing Up!
The Measure Consumer Perspectives team continues to expand its collection of awards and recognition. The latest: winning the Better Business Bureau Louisville Torch Award in the Small Business...
View ArticleBluegrass Green Co.
Interesting story here. How is a couple from New York recruited to Louisville by a local developer to purchase the environmentally friendly paint store Bluegrass Green Co. in NuLu? To hear about it you...
View ArticleQueen City Angels
We generally feature an individual impact investor or entrepreneur as part of our newsletter, but considering how Queen City Angels (QCA) is a model for seed-stage investments in Cincinnati, in the...
View ArticleClient Spotlight: DCVR
How exactly does a 12-year-old boy’s dream become a reality? Ask Mike Pifer of DCVR. Go to school, keep your grades up, graduate, start a construction company. Work hard for 10 years. And when […]
View Article2014: Year of the TREP
By Kent Oyler As the Far East winds down the Chinese Year of the SNAKE (really? a snake?) and ramps up for the 1/31/14 onset of the more formidable-sounding Year of the HORSE, the […]
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