Hello Fellow Explorers!

AND THE 2024 LOUIES WINNERS ARE:

Louisville Favorite Community Supporter - Gill Holland
Louisville Favorite Co-Founder - Logan Burchett
Louisville's Most Improved Founder - Aaron Peabody & Dr. Stevens Bonhomme, D.B.A, M.A
Louisville's Favorite Angel Investor - Garrett French
Best MVP Award - The Nori Project
SPAM Award - XENA Intelligence
Louisville's Best Fundraise - LullaFeed™
Louisville Favorite Founder - Steven Plappert
Louisville's Best Startup - RxLightning

Congrats to this year’s winners and best of luck to those in 2025…but you don’t have to wait a year for MORE COOL EVENTS!

@Rachel of Swell and @Amanda of Bestibox are hosting Customer-a-thon this Thursday 10am @ Story. Founders will brainstorm $50 customers acquisition ideas and have to execute before leaving the room. Come and #hack some growth!

Speaking of #hacking Hack-a-thon Feb 21st! Let’s make it happen #Louisville! We need the community to come out and start building #coolstuff. We need hackers, mentors, volunteers, sponsors and speakers!
I will personally be persistently harassing reaching out to each of you to get involved. But it would be helpful to you me if you volunteered. Register here

And last but not least: FIRE & ICE Sauna and Cold Plunge Networking, Jan 11th, 2025! We start off 2025 with a #GoT level of intensity! Justin Timberlake has left town, say good-bye to your suit & tie.

Events

ANNOUNCING FIRE & ICE: SAUNA AND COLD PLUNGE NETWORKING
Sat Jan 11th, 2025 @ 10am @ Story

Checkout other events here. Submit your event here.

Customer-a-thon - Thurs, Dec 12th, 10am @ Story
Venminder SQL → Aurora v2 Serverless - Thurs, Dec 12th, 6pm @ Story
FIRE AND ICE NETWORKING - Sat, Jan 11th, 10am @ Story
KYCombinator Hack-a-thon - Fri, Feb 21st, 4pm @ Story

Fellow Founder Corner

Terri Lykins of MyFoodMyChoice is looking for a short form video editor for some #marketing work. Anybody know somebody?

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Best of Luck Fellow Explorers!