The Nashville Entrepreneur Center fosters innovation and entrepreneurship by Turning Ideas Into Reality, helping to start businesses and create jobs.
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National Association of Professional Women – Nashville Chapter
NAPW’s mission is to provide an exclusive, highly advanced networking forum to successful women executives, professionals and entrepreneurs where they can aspire, connect and achieve. Through innovative resources, unique tools and progressive benefits, professional women interact, exchange ideas, advance their knowledge and empower each other. Learn more about the National Association of Professional Women –
Read more »SBA LINC: Connecting Borrowers with SBA Approved Lenders
Access to credit continues to bedevil too many U.S. entrepreneurs. Eighty percent of small business loan applications are rejected, according to some industry estimates, and more applications than we can count are never filed because of the difficulty of getting an appointment with a loan officer. Technology can help us address this problem. Online matchmaking
Read more »Tennessee Department of Transportation – Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Application
Application to become a certified DBE contractor for the TN Department of Transportation.
Read more »Tennessee Economic Council on Women
The Tennessee Economic Council on Women is an economic advocate for women. Its purpose is to assess the economic status of women in Tennessee in order to develop and advocate for solutions that will address their economic needs and promote economic autonomy.
Read more »Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women
Membership is open to any person who is a member in good standing of a State or Federal Bar of the United States. Any person supporting the purposes of TLAW, any student, and any law graduate awaiting admission may be a member. TLAW’s purposes include achieving the full participation of women lawyers in the rights, privileges and benefits of the legal profession.
Read more »Tennessee Minority Supplier Development Council
The TMSDC works to build business partnerships between minority businesses (suppliers) and major corporations (purchasers). We are affiliated with the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC) which has a network of more than 15,000 certified minority businesses, 3,500 major corporations, and 37 regional councils nationwide.
Read more »Tennessee Resource Map
Tennessee is home to a number of business advisers and resource providers for existing and new businesses. Pathway Lending has created the following interactive map of our statewide partners to help users find local and regional business resources and advisers.
Read more »Tennessee Small Business Development Centers (TSBDCs)
The TSBDC network offers an online curriculum of Small Business Survival Training seminars, as well as in person seminars of topics of general interest throughout Tennessee.
Read more »Tennessee Uniform Certification Program
The Tennessee Uniform Certification Program (TNUCP) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Directory is a website that provides a directory of DBE and Airport Concessionaire Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (ACDBE) companies that are certified to conduct business in the state of Tennessee.
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Blue Sky Business Modeling WorkshopThu Jan 23 2020, 11:00am CST - 01:00pm CST
Quickbooks BootcampWed Feb 5 2020, 09:00am CST - 11:00am CST
Blue Sky Business Modeling Workshop
Quickbooks BootcampBet On Yourself: Power Surge Recap
Earlier this month, entrepreneurs and Pathway WBC mentors Kia Jarmon and Rebecca Wood led a full house in an interactive evening here at Pathway for our signature networking event Power Surge. We were thrilled to see so many of our WBC cohort graduates turn out and to welcome newcomers too. Power Surge is just one
Pathway Launched Into Networking at 36|86
The 2019 36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival held in Downtown Nashville, Tennessee brought together local entrepreneurs and business leaders for two days of networking, programming and entertainment. Put on by Launch Tennessee, a state-funded nonprofit, this conference was meant to introduce investors to regional startups seeking funding. This was our 2nd year sponsoring the Women’s Lounge at
Pathway WBC at Nashville Voice
The Power of Voice Technology Voice skills are the new websites. That’s the view of Data Driven Design owner Paul Hickey who launched Nashville’s first Voice Conference where over 60 business owners – many of them new to voice technology – gathered July 31 at Thistle Farms. Proceeds benefited Corner to Corner, a non-profit focused on