The fourth annual Chattanooga Mini Maker Faire will make its return Saturday, Oct. 20 at the downtown Chattanooga Public Library. Applications are now open for makers and members of the public to submit their exhibit ideas through Sept. 20. Part science fair, part county fair and part something [...]
This Month at CO.LAB: CO.STARTERS, Idea Leap Grant Deadline & more!
Business pitch competition to award $1,000 and ticket to SXSW for best idea The Company Lab (CO.LAB) is currently seeking applications for its eighth annual ‘Will This Float?’ competition, which showcases up-and-coming startup ideas in southeast Tennessee. Prospective participants must submit their business concepts by Oct. [...]
Sloss Tech is Birmingham’s one-day conference focused on discussions around creative thinking and emerging technologies, which intentionally falls the day before the city’s major music festival, Sloss Fest. This was only the conference’s second year, which sold out days before. And we can’t say it [...]
If you’ve spent any time in downtown Chattanooga over the past few years, it should not be a surprise to you when we say that the coffee culture here is thriving. We’ve seen locals open up shops with their very own flavor, such as Velo Coffee’s focus [...]
Join us for Cocktails @ CO.LAB! CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (October 1, 2015) – As you gear up for the last evening of Startup Week, swing by CO.LAB for a lively evening of cocktails and conversation at our new digs in the Edney Innovation Center. We’ve finally settled [...]
Will This Float? is just four days away—and our finalists are gearing up for an exciting pitch competition! After sifting through many impressive submissions, we chose 10 innovators to present their viable business concepts: Apex Technologies / Bradley Sewell: Emergency vehicle detection device with driver notification. Carbon / Allie [...]
January 10 CXP Hey everybody, I’m the new CO.LAB intern and my new owners thought it would be interesting if I could report on the CXP internship mixer on January 10 from the student’s perspective, so here goes... I had never heard of CO.LAB before [...]
No Co.Lab Friday this weekend, we'll be off in Nashville for Tenessee's NEXT Conference, and in Cincinnati for the launch of another location of SpringBoard run by ArtWorks! If you can hold in your entusiasm until May 13th, we can catch up then... Bring a [...]
written by Brittany Cofer, Times Free Press Photo by Tim Barber It's no secret some big ideas have come out of Chattanooga. It's the place where Coca-Cola was first franchised to be bottled, the Moon Pie was created and a small insurance company, Provident, grew [...]
