Hatchit Judges Marco Perez, vice president of operations for LaunchTN, which provides funding support to organizations that offer entrepreneurship programming in rural and under-served communities. “It is important to stress that there were a lot of great pitches and business ideas. Regarding Kaylin, there were two main draws that made me vote her to the top. 1. Her idea made sense right away. I understood the problem and the…
Chris Land wanted to be a mechanic. It was pretty much pre-destined. “Well, my whole life I have been raised in a mechanic family. So, I’ve always been under the hood of vehicles, but I planned on being a garage mechanic or something,” he said. But pre-destiny didn’t come true in his case. “When I was 16, I had a car accident and traumatic brain damage, so that took…
