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In Nashville, the sweet sound of entrepreneurship
April 27, 2012
Nashville and Silicon Valley have a lot in common. They're both filled with smart, creative people building businesses together. Nashville's start-up scene may be less well known, but it's bursting with energy and creativity like the rest of the city, and on April 19, we brought our
Google for Entrepreneurs
program down to the home of honky tonks to learn more about how we might help out.
Event crowd in our rustic music hall venue.
Google for Entrepreneurs was a full day of sessions exploring topics from how to use Google+ and Youtube to publicize your content, to ads and analytics tools for businesses to our various platforms for developers. The crowd of 430 attendees ranged from tech startups like
Populr.me
, which is building a beautiful HTML5 micropublishing app, to
ArtistGrowth
, which is creating a platform for artists to organize and monetize a music business from their phone. A group of eight enterprising Googlers led conversations on getting your business on the global map, while the
Creator’s Freedom Project
hosted a panel of local artists discussing how creative people can make a living using today's technology. We closed the day by discussing how music and tech can work together to
make the Internet awesome
. Then, naturally, it was time to let the live music and beverages flow. For more photos, check out our web album
here
.
Google panel taking any and all questions.
We’d like to thank all our partners
Flo {thinkery}
,
Entrepreneur Center
,
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
,
Nashville Technology Council
and
Tennessee Film, Entertainment & Music Commission
, as well as
Karl Dean
, the Mayor of Nashville and
Beth Harwell
, Speaker of the House (Tenn.) for making this event truly memorable. In one amazing day, we came together to bring the magic of Google to Nashville and made friends with one talented city. We look forward to connecting with more entrepreneurial cities around the country, and the world.
Posted by Bridgette Sexton, Global Entrepreneurship Manager
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