Startup Junkie

Science and technology startups in Arkansas will now have a new resource when applying for federal grant funding. Partnering with Innovate Arkansas and the Northwest Arkansas Council, Startup Junkie Foundation has launched Science Venture Studio (SVS) to help Arkansas startups…

An Arkansas entrepreneur support organization executive has been named to the National Small Business Association (NSBA) Leadership Council. Startup Junkie Foundation executive director Taylor Hasley was recently appointed to the council.     As part of the NSBA Leadership Council, Hasley…

Startup Junkie Foundation has named a new executive director to head up its entrepreneurial support efforts. Taylor Hasley will be taking over the role, succeeding former executive director Haley Allgood. Hasley joined Startup Junkie in 2019, overseeing the organization’s Fuel…

Multiple Arkansas entrepreneurial support organizations (ESOs) are shutting down their program offerings in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Both Startup Junkie and Conductor have canceled all in-person events and programming that have been scheduled for the remainder of the school…

by Tyler Hale Startup Junkie has added a new member to its growing team. Alvin Singh has joined the Northwest Arkansas entrepreneurial support organization as its new Kiva program associate. As the program associate, Singh is charged with helping to…

by Tyler Hale Fourteen artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning companies will be heading to Northwest Arkansas in January as part of the Fuel Accelerator. Billing itself as the state’s first AI and machine learning accelerator, the Fuel Accelerator is…

  A leader in creating lasting venture systems nationally, Jeff Amerine is the managing director of Startup Junkie Consulting, Cadron Capital Partners and Tonic, a complementary parallel company that provides capital for startups. To these, he brings the experience of having…

by Tyler Hale Startup Junkie and the Walton Family Foundation are launching a new microfinance hub in Northwest Arkansas that is designed to impact entrepreneurs and small business owners who require access to capital. The organizations are partnering with Kiva,…

One of Arkansas’ most prominent cheerleaders of free trade and entrepreneurship will make his way to Fayetteville for an evening-long discussion on just that. Warren Stephens, chairman and CEO of Stephens, Inc., the world’s largest investment banking firm not on…

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has awarded Startup Junkie with a $50,000 award that will benefit the second Fuel Accelerator. Startup Junkie is one of 60 winners of the SBA’s Growth Accelerator Fund Competition that supports accelerators and incubators. The…