Nathan Lehoux, cofounder of Proveit, stops by the Catalyst studio to share the company’s origin story. This almost textbook success story starts in one of our favorite places – the St. Pete Greenhouse. Nate’s now partner Prem Thomas was presenting for his company Gurus at 1 Million Cups. Nate connected with Prem afterwards, and the two began having regular ideation sessions at local coffee shops.
In this third episode, your Community Foundation of Tampa Bay host Wilma Norton welcomes Kyle Matthews, Executive Director of Beat Nb, a nonprofit that seeks to do just what it says - beat neuroblastoma - the most common cancer in infants. Matthews joined Beat Nb full time in 2016, six years after the death of his son Ezra from neuroblastoma. Matthews, an entrepreneur with a budding tech company left it all to work for something larger. Matthews' strategic leadership brought together four organizations formed by the grieving parents of children who fought neuroblastoma, pooled their resources, and created Beat Nb. Since its inception, Beat Nb has helped found and fund a global research consortium called Beat Childhood Cancer.
Following up on the success of the 2018 summit, the Synapse Innovation Summit will return to Tampa in 2019. The summit will be held Jan. 23 and 24 at Amalie Arena.
In 2018, the summit attracted upwards of 250 exhibitors and 3,200 attendees. In 2019, more than 350 exhibitors and 5,000 attendees are expected from many industries, including robotics and STEM, medical innovations, blockchain, entertainment and Internet of Things.
Growing a trivia-based gaming startup is as tricky as it sounds. Building the platform, attracting thousands of users and finding banks that will even touch the financial side of the business are massive hurdles. Once you’ve made it passed all those, you still need to stock the game with great questions. Thousands and thousands of great questions.
We do everything the old-fashioned way: no big equipment, no automated devices. It creates a more intimate bond between the maker and the products. I am also very intentional about where my ingredients (plants, herbs, oils etc.) are sourced from
3 Daughters Brewing, a staple of the Warehouse Arts District, is constantly bustling. While brewers mix up a batch upon batch of their popular brews, hard ciders and seltzers, in the next room beer alchemists examine and test recipes.
"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker, author of Why We Sleep.