Creative Minds Summit is coming

Corrieri's Formaggeria

1110 Caruthers Avenue
Nashville Tennessee 37204
USA 615-385-9272

Price: No admission fee
6:00pm

The Creative Minds Summit is a place where idea driven, creative entrepreneurs can meet, socialize and get to know each other while enjoying the flavor of a local business. Come join us and see who you might meet and work with in the future. Be sure to bring some business cards and a creative spirit.

Please RSVP to let us know if you will be attending. We need to know how much space is needed. Thanks and see you all there.

Creative Minds Summit this Wednesday at Batter'd & Fried

Will be held at Batter'd & Fried in East Nashville at 6:00pm this Wednesday. Please RSVP so I know how many people are attending.

Batter'd & Fried

1008 Woodland St # A
Nashville, TN 37206

615-226-9283

Plumgood Food is going out of business

Plumgood is closing its doors on Friday, December 5th.

A portion of a message on their website to customers from Eric Satz, cofounder and ceo is below:
We believe our service was not only good for our customers, but good for Nashville, which continues to diversify its economy by attracting large corporations from major cities and supporting local ventures with assistance from the Nashville Capital Network and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce. Similar businesses to ours exist in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C., Virginia and New York City. We expect to see another grocery home delivery service plant itself here in the future.

Today’s economy has taken its toll on our business the same way it has on many other businesses our size. The primary driver for our customer was always convenience. This consumer value proposition becomes far less compelling in an environment where the perceived value of one’s time declines as significantly and rapidly as it has over the past few months. We’ve seen our weekly deliveries decline from more than 800 to less than 700. We simply do not have the scale and purchasing power required to compete on price with the country’s largest grocers and outlast the current economic crisis.

Please visit the Plumgood website to read the entire goodbye letter.

Investors form $5.2M fund to help start-ups

Local angel investors are pooling their money through Nashville Capital Network to create a $5.2 million fund for entrepreneurs said to be the first of its kind in Tennessee.

Sid Chambless, executive director of Nashville Capital Network, says the fund allows the 50-plus investors in his group, who have individually invested $10 million in 13 early stage companies, to pool their money into a fund that will capitalize an additional 10 to 12 start-up businesses.

Visit the Nashville Business Journal for more.

Wobbling Tables? This will solve that problem

http://www.stabletable.co.uk/

Sales of a gadget to stop tables wobbling that was laughed off by Dragons' Den business experts have now totalled half a million pounds.

One expert, Rachel Elnaugh, called the Stabletable device "the most ridiculous idea" she had ever seen. Its Surrey inventor Andrew Gordon had the idea after drinking five pints with friends at a wobbly pub table. He woke up with a hangover the next day and designed the gadget by cutting up a cereal box.

"The table in the pub was wobbly and someone suggested moving to a stable table," he said. And he added that his "incredibly simple idea" was meant to be "a bit of fun".

The gadget has eight thin plastic strips which swivel out to the required thickness to stop a table wobbling.

Mr Gordon has since sold just under 500,000 Stabletables, selling three for £3.99. The Exam Officers' Association has ordered 200,000 of the gadgets, and negotiations are under way with Tesco and B&Q.Mr Gordon said Cambridge University and the tea room at Kensington Palace were also customers.

Speaking about his appearance on Dragons' Den, which offers ordinary people a chance to pitch their business ideas to rich but ruthless investors, he said: "It is not even good to have proved them wrong, it's just quite satisfying that it's kicked off. 'Stuck to conviction' A BBC spokesperson added: "The dragons make their own business decisions." Although they didn't back Andrew, it's great that he stuck to his conviction about his product. "Hopefully this will encourage other inventors and entrepreneurs."

The 31-year-old Scot, who lives in Camberley, appeared on the BBC programme two years ago.The marketing manager put his idea to the panel of five experts, but Ms Elnaugh's comments were followed by a chorus of like-minded derision from the other judges. They included telecoms tycoon Peter Jones and health club guru Duncan Bannatyne. Red Letter Days, Ms Elnaugh's company, went into administration shortly after the show, but was thrown a lifeline by Mr Jones and more recent dragon retail guru, Theo Paphitis.