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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

My name is Richard Simms and, I am a Cofounder of Tech Talent South. Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. My Cofounder, Betsy Idilbi , and I started working on TTS about a year and a half ago and have been going a million miles an hour since then.

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What I learned about leadership from watching ‘The Walking Dead’

The Next Web

Danny Boice is the co-founder and CTO of Speek – a 500 Startups-funded startup that let’s users do conference calls with a simple link rather than using phone numbers and PINs. then takes the group back to Atlanta —zombie-riddled Atlanta, which he just escaped from—to try and free Merle!

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide. I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

William Hurley, the co-founder of Honest Dollar, an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits. Boulder, CO.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Opportunity Hub Partners with Capital Factory To Bridge Opportunity Gap

Austin Startup

Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. OHUB@SXSW | Opportunity Hub (OHUB) Thursday, March 7 Opening reception and fireside chat with Priscilla Chan, Cofounder, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 4:00 PM?—?8:00

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How Lemon Perfect Founder Yanni Hufnagel Hires the Best People

The Startup Magazine

He knows that quality of startup hiring is linked to the tone the founder sets for the company. At The Lemon Perfect Company’s headquarters in Atlanta, Hufnagel says employees are as passionate as he is. He seeks zeal in potential hires. “We The goal in startup hiring, he says, is to make people feel they can’t walk away.

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