Chamber Forms Entrepreneurship Task Force
Published May 23, 2008
If a business has an idea for “can’t miss” growth, how can the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce help?
The chamber has formed a Partnership 2010 Entrepreneurship Task Force that is developing a plan to retain, expand and attract high-growth entrepreneurial ventures in Middle Tennessee.
The 90-member task force consists of successful financial investors, entrepreneurs, service providers and other professionals who will produce the results of their research in July 2008.
“We already know that Nashville is a great entrepreneurial community, but the objective of this volunteer task force is to find out how we can make it even better,” says Christine McDonnell, vice president of existing business and entrepreneurship for the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
“We want to provide valuable information to businesses that are looking to significantly grow their companies with big entrepreneurial ventures in the Nashville region.”
Nashville has been an entreprenurial hot spot for several years, and McDonnell says the task force is studying the current resources that are available to
high-growth entrepreneurs.
“We are looking at how to build upon community sucesses and make a stronger network of resources, capital and infrastructure,” McDonnell says. “We are mapping out what is available to the business community, then will develop a marketing campaign that showcases the high entrepreneurial opportunities in the Nashville region.”
The task force is co-chaired by HealthStream chairman/CEO Robert A. Frist Jr., and XMi chairman Michael Shmerling.
“The task force will decide what our next steps will be after July 2008,” McDonnell says.
“But by that time, we will convey several components that need to be in place for an entrepreneurial venture to be successful here in Middle Tennessee.”
Story by Kevin Litwin
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