So, he took what he had learned in his brief career and began his own marketing and advertising company. “I put my head down and knew I had all the knowledge to help people. It was grueling at first. I worked out of a small coffee shop in Bossier City.”.

Grindley’s move to Straight Up Technologies will be to another edgy corporate environment, not unlike Cohab in some ways. SUT accesses and solves problems in the field for businesses and their events, including such clients as Google, SalesForce, NBA, the British Open and film director Michael Bay.

This third article of 2015 continues our discussion of the Interstate 20 Corridor becoming the next Austin, Texas, a region enabling the creation of an entrepreneurial ecosystem to support torrents of new business venture creation. It will come in two parts.