A sizable disconnect exists between genius developers who have world changing ideas and the organizations who have the money to fund them into reality. At its core, GeniusCog wants to provide a base of engaging news coverage to bridge that gap.

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to read the about page by now and have fully understood the intent of GeniusCog, which is to cover those lesser known technology companies in all stages of development.

Seeing as this is the first post, I’m sort of at a loss for what to write — what news is appropriate to cover in the beginning. But as wise man David Cohn once said on his blog, the worst articles are the ones you don’t write at all.

My name is Tom Cheredar and for roughly a year I did my best to cover the technology community in Nashville, Tenn. on my own personal blog. I never had more than a week’s worth of engaging news, which is why GeniusCog is going to cover far more geography than that.

But beyond that, I’m fully prepared to allow GeniusCog to mold into what it wants to be — and more importantly, what it needs to be.

I will tell you that neither myself or publisher Marcus Whitney plan to run press releases with the lede rewritten for the sake of having something posted. That’s not what this publication is about. We want to engage people by telling the stories of the small, scrappy tech companies that aren’t getting nearly the press they deserve.