Memphian Kelli Meade is designing wearable fashion earphones for women and proving that success in tech entrepreneurship isn’t one-size-fits-all. 

Carter Beard started canning jams and jellies as a side project. When he was laid off in 2010, he amped up production and invested in what is now Riverside 1844 Artisanal Foods. As kitchen manager for First Congregational Church, he uses the commercial kitchen to scale his business and feed Memphians in need. 

Giant bunnies to invade Overton Park. 

Over 30 startup founders called the Exchange Building home while growing their companies. 

When Premier Flowers opened in 2015 it brought to fruition Colby Midgett’s childhood passion for arranging flowers. 

The new Cook Out Creamery restaurant on Highland Avenue quietly opened for business on Friday, joining a string of new restaurants that have opened up on the west side of Highland Avenue in recent months.

A new medical and legal partnership at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital looks to unroot the environmental causes of illness among Memphis' disadvantaged. 

The paired companies will work together for the next 12 months to help make the minority- and women-owned companies more competitive, achieve entrepreneurial success and contribute to the strength and vigor of the local economy.