Pitching and growing a startup

22/11/2025 23 min
Pitching and growing a startup

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From a simple Kickstarter to coverage in Vogue, Emily Byrne’s last three-ish years have been more of a sudden leap than a gentle rise. Byrne is the founder of Rise Centered, which makes boutique sunrise alarm clocks that brighten gradually for a better awakening Co-host Frederick Reimers talks with Byrne and Silicon Couloir Executive Director Rob Kellogg about the petri dish of ideas cultivated at the annual Pitch Day and about what it takes to run the day-to-day of a Jackson-based startup. https://www.facebook.com/frederick.reimers.5https://www.instagram.com/writereimers/

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