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Stuccco provides virtual staging services for real estate agents; online interior design services for homeowners.  Real estate agents place virtual staging orders on Stuccco.com (est. time: three minutes). Stuccco renders the photos and completes the order within 24 hours. Agents add virtually staged photos to their online listings, share them on social media, and include them in flyers, brochures, and/or posters.  Homeowners hire online interior designers on Stuccco.com (est. time: five minutes). The homeowner collaborates with an online interior designer through Stuccco and over the phone. In 14 days or less, the homeowner gets their room designed including visualizations of their newly designed room, a floor plan, a clickable shopping list, and design instructions. And in 2021, Stuccco will begin integrating with big-box retailers, making items visualized in virtually staged photos purchasable.

Coaches and players want every edge possible to stay competitive. Having accurate analytics for pitching and hitting is now an essential part of the game. Zone Traxx is a baseball and softball analytics tool designed to improve players and teams before, during, and after games. The Zone Traxx app allows you to easily track important information in real-time during practice and games and automatically compiles, analyzes, and reports the results.

Charley Miller of Louisville, Kentucky is an entrepreneur, product manager, and game designer with a focus on systems and product experience. He's the founder of Unitonomy, one of the companies in Awesome Inc's 2020 class of the Fellowship. Unitonomy is making culture management software for knowledge workers and their teams. They primarily focus on helping remote teams augment communication.

Charley dives into his past experiences with startups, living all over the nation, and why creating and maintaining a culture is vitally important for health and success.

Charley Miller of Louisville, Kentucky is an entrepreneur, product manager, and game designer with a focus on systems and product experience. He's the founder of Unitonomy, one of the companies in Awesome Inc's 2020 class of the Fellowship. Unitonomy is making culture management software for knowledge workers and their teams. They primarily focus on helping remote teams augment communication.

Charley dives into his past experiences with startups, living all over the nation, and why creating and maintaining a culture is vitally important for health and success.

Natasha Sams dives into what it took to make a Kentucky teacher become an innovation leader for the Commonwealth's future entrepreneurs.

The Governor's School for Entrepreneurs (GSE) identifies and enables Kentucky high school students to become our Commonwealth's next generation of entrepreneurs. Through our three-week residential experience, GSE participants from throughout the Commonwealth are: 1) introduced to KY's most successful entrepreneurs and fastest-growing businesses, 2) equipped with the tools and skills to create and build their own businesses, and 3) matched with complementary skilled peers to develop business plans and product or service prototypes.

The annual GSE intensive program culminates in a pitch competition attended by a large audience representing Kentucky's entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition, as a direct result of their participation in GSE, participants qualify for some $3 million of scholarships from Kentucky's universities and colleges. Over 500 young Kentuckians have graduated from GSE since our inception in 2013.

While all participants gain vital entrepreneurial skills through the program to use as they enter the workplace or continue into higher education, 11 new businesses have already been launched by young entrepreneurs. Others have filed for multiple patents and developed new ideas and relationships that sow the seeds for more business formation. Many alumni have chosen to enroll in entrepreneurial programs at Kentucky universities and attribute this decision to the inspiration they received while attending GSE in high school.

Natasha Sams dives into what it took to make a Kentucky teacher become an innovation leader for the Commonwealth's future entrepreneurs. 

The Governor's School for Entrepreneurs (GSE) identifies and enables Kentucky high school students to become our Commonwealth's next generation of entrepreneurs. Through our three-week residential experience, GSE participants from throughout the Commonwealth are:

The annual GSE intensive program culminates in a pitch competition attended by a large audience representing Kentucky's entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition, as a direct result of their participation in GSE, participants qualify for some $3 million of scholarships from Kentucky's universities and colleges. Over 500 young Kentuckians have graduated from GSE since our inception in 2013.

While all participants gain vital entrepreneurial skills through the program to use as they enter the workplace or continue into higher education, 11 new businesses have already been launched by young entrepreneurs. Others have filed for multiple patents and developed new ideas and relationships that sow the seeds for more business formation. Many alumni have chosen to enroll in entrepreneurial programs at Kentucky universities and attribute this decision to the inspiration they received while attending GSE in high school.

Here's the conclusion to our live Lunch & Learn podcast with Logan Burchett and Steven Plappert Forecastr reflecting on their journey through Techstars and how they are moving forward during a global pandemic. 

This podcast episode was recorded live to catch up with our friends from Louisville, KY Steven Plappert and Logan Burchett of Forecastr to hear of their journey through Techstars and the future of the company. Over a year ago in July 2019 we sat down with Logan and Steven and caught the background story of Forecastr (episode linked here).

Forecastr is online software that helps founders build great financial models so they can understand their numbers, make better decisions, and get funded. The Forecastr founding team is a diverse group of serial entrepreneurs with well-balanced skill sets, and a mission to help startup founders everywhere better understand their numbers so they can fulfill their own missions to make an impact.

This podcast episode was recorded live to catch up with our friends from Louisville, KY Steven Plappert and Logan Burchett of Forecastr to hear of their journey through Techstars and the future of the company. Over a year ago in July 2019 we sat down with Logan and Steven and caught the background story of Forecastr (episode linked here).

Forecastr is online software that helps founders build great financial models so they can understand their numbers, make better decisions, and get funded. The Forecastr founding team is a diverse group of serial entrepreneurs with well-balanced skill sets, and a mission to help startup founders everywhere better understand their numbers so they can fulfill their own missions to make an impact.

In addition to the founding team, Forecastr is backed by a world-class tribe of 25+ angel investors who understand just how big of a problem financial forecasting and 'good financial hygiene' really are within the startup world today. The idea of Forecastr was born when they saw their customers' frustration with the financial models being used.

With 34 years of background in education, Scott Stuckey has been improving teaching systems for almost two decades. 

Founded for the unique challenges of rural communities, Inquiry Technologies, LLC (InqTech) is a research and development firm with a mission to create new instructional technology that has a positive impact on education, healthcare, and workforce development sectors. Founded in 2012, InqTech has been awarded more than one million dollars from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Cabinet for Economic Development. InqTech’s senior research and design team draws on decades of experience in classroom instruction, technology facilitation, software development, and commercialization. An innate understanding of various learner types, computer platforms, data management solutions, and security policies has positioned InqTech as an emerging leader for products and services designed to improve communications and heighten literacy rates for individuals in a wide variety of learning settings.

Adam Brown is the creative director and founder of Marrow: a brand design agency for challenger brands and startups that give a damn. Call him a design zealot, a provocateur, or—if you’re his mother-in-law—a BS artist. With Adam, brands embrace empathy as a strategy, value audacity over relevance, and commit unequivocally to the remarkable. 

Clients include a craft distillery, a brewery, a coffee roaster, a couple of private colleges, a killer video game publisher, an investigative research company (not spies), contractors, an international design-build firm, a public school system, a fine dining and event caterer, a national flower grower, social causes, non-profit organizations, his mother-in-law, and the very smart people who helped Apple build Siri. 

He’s good at lots of things, but he’s most at home in front of clients guiding strategy or behind his computer making something amazing for people who aren’t so easily satisfied. Like his mother-in-law.