Welcome to the Nashville Startup Blog
March 12, 2009
Welcome everyone to the new Nashville Tennessee Startup Blog. My name is Bryan Kipke. I have been a teacher for the last 4 years in Nashville public schools, as well as an assistant Football coach. I love to coach and teach but the public schools just weren’t working out.
About a year and a half ago I started looking into different opportunities. I always felt as if I had an entrepreneurial, and inventor’s spirit. Instead of taking the plunge and starting my own business I went to Taiwan with my wife to teach English. The intention was to stay for a year and have that be my last year of teaching for a little while.
That year turned into 6 months when I got deported. I went from having a nice easy life in tropical Taiwan to being dumped back into Nashville with just a 14 day notice. I did not know what I was going to do. After a month of developing websites and selling them, Spring Stage approached me to write for the Nashville Startup. So after a lot of hard work I became an entrepreneur.
I am not really sure when I became an entrepreneur. It might have been during all those books I read. It might have been in Taiwan when I really started to buy and sell websites. It might have been out of need when I finally arrived in Nashville and had to make money. But I am happy with how things turned out and I am glad to offer my experiences to others.
Nashville Startup.com offers me a great opportunity to share what is going on in Nashville. I really believe that Nashville is underrated as a city. There is a lot more here than just Country Music, and I hope to bring that to this blog. It is an exciting city and there are many opportunities to be had.
Please subscribe and I will give you as much information that I can find on things going on in Nashville. With that said there is no way that I can be successful without your help. If you know of anything that is happening in Nashville that may deserve some exposure on this site let me know and I will be happy to interview, share, or just plug the next best thing.
Send me a message, or as we get things set up you can skype me at coachkip or hit me up via Facebook.
Until the next post, happy inventing, smooth sailing, and y’all come back to get your twang on!
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