Hello Fellow Explorers!

The LOUIES ARE HERE

The votes are in, the ballots are being counted! the LOUIES are here!
Thursday, Dec 5th @ 5:02pm - The first annual LOUIES Awards Show

Register Here
Check out the current Nominees here

STARTUP SWAG EXCHANGE! - Bring your *cough* left-over startup swag to give-away.

Events

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

Checkout other events here. Submit your event here.

Venture Connectors - Weds, Dec 4th 5:30pm at West 6th
Founders Beers - Weds, Dec 4th 7pm at Pearl
5 Across Finals - Weds, Dec 4th 7pm in Lexington
Lunch w/ Z - Thursday, Dec 5th 11:45 am @ Story
The LOUIES - Thursday, Dec 5th 5:02pm @ Story
FIRE AND ICE NETWORKING - Sat, Jan 11th, 10am @ Story

Reports

It’s been 50 years since the 1974 New Yorker article about Louisville. Check it out here.

Checkout our draft economic & demographic report here

Some highlights:
“in recent years [Louisvillians] have seemed preoccupied, to a degree that might be called defensive, by comparisons with Atlanta. They like to point out that they think the bloom is off the capital city of Georgia.” -42

Note: In 1974 Atlanta was 80% larger than Louisville. In 1950, Atlanta was 16% larger. In 2020, it is 373% larger.

“One of these Louisvillians, young executive name H. Wendell Cherry, summed it all up by declaring that his city had fallen victim to an “incredible inertia,” which manifested itself in several ways, one of them being that a lot of citizens were going around saying thy were glad that not much was happening in Louisville. - page 47

“blue-collar industry and blue-collar workers were unlikely to make the sort of contributions to the community that some of the community’s leaders thought ought to be made. Blue-collar industry, they reasoned, meant an orientation toward suburbia rather than the central city and many of these leaders were worried about what was happening to the center of Louisville. The downtown section was deteriorating, and the people were expressing fear that it would continue to deteriorate” 49-50.

Fundraising

Checkout other fundraises here. Submit your fundraise here.

Apply to Q1 2025 Jumpstart Foundry Cohort - $100K on a SAFE with a $2M cap - technically $150K so they end up with 7.5% but the other $50K is a "membership"

Please and Thank You - WeFunder Revenue share

Looking for Investors? Check out here.

Best of Luck Fellow Explorers!