Nashville, known around the world as the Music City, is also known as the nation’s best area for women owned businesses with a high rank for entrepreneurial growth.

Knoxville is a mid-sized city on the Tennessee River that is blossoming as an entrepreneurial hotspot in the Southeast United States.

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One of the best kept secrets of the southeast United States is a region made up of Bristol, TN / Bristol, VA, Johnson City, TN, and Kingsport, TN. Known as the Tri-Cities, this unique area possesses some of the best resources of a major city, without the problems and hassles of a major metropolitan area.

Launch Tennessee‘s unique master startup accelerator program, THE TENN has announced eight cohorts which had previously graduated from five of the startup accelerators of the state’s entrepreneur centers, have been chosen to participate in this year’s “TENN” program.