Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 11, 2014

The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. I’ve known Jacqui Chew for a long time and she’s easily one of the most dynamic people killing it in Atlanta today. She’s the CEO of iFusion Marketing and is a neighbor of mine in the Atlanta Tech Village. You work with (and know) a lot of startups.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2011

Tweet While speaking at Entrepreneur magazine’s Growth Conference in Atlanta this week, I spoke to small business owners in a talk I’m calling 3 Weeks to Startup after the book that I co-authored. Here are the top 3: 1. Starting a business with no real customer need.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(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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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos. Tell us about something you love.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

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 Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 I’m the founder of Lime Inc., Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Held as part of Atlanta’s Tech & Startup Week , the 6th Annual Startup Riot featured 30 local entrepreneurs pitching their ideas for a chance to win huge cash prizes, thousands of dollars in professional services and meetings with top venture capitalists and investors. Agency Spotter. Campus Bubble. CloudyDays.

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Now as well as being produced by startups, this pattern is happening to startups. Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Plus in a startup you could make much more money.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Designing and critiquing logos for web-based companies and startups is a pursuit of endless fascination for many of us. Over the years, we’ve seen enough startups come and go (and rebrand and merge) to fill a volume with how and how not to develop and execute a logo for a web company. Learn more here.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Johnson Cook , the dude that sits right behind me at Atlanta Tech Village , and who flew the pirate flag on top of the building last week cementing himself forever in my consciousness as a true bad@ass, wrote a post recently called, The Top 3 Jobs of a Startup CEO. Set the course. Build the right team. I hope we succeeded :). #3.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

A systems-wide approach to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the startup ecosystem is required and must be built from the ground by communities of color with the support and investment of all. Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 25, 2014

The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. My co-founders and I have been working together in digital for over a decade to engage, personalize and re-engage people. As the CEO of a startup, how do you manage your time? Any tips for other startup leaders? Devon Wijesinghe , Insightpool. Mark Feinberg , Uruut.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. I think the same goes for startup entrepreneurialism. Shed the inferiority complex.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors. For example, consider public relations.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. We also leverage ecosystem partners.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

Mike McQuary , co-founder of Mindspring and founder of Wheego electric cars, did not expect his largest consumer base would be retired people. Each month I mentor revenue-positive startups. Maintain the ability to adapt. Find a Board of Advisors.

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Atlanta Cofounder Sales Hiring 187

David Teten

JUNE 3, 2014

For the third year in a row, ff Venture Capital is co-sponsoring the New York Demo Day for Georgia Tech’s Flashpoint Accelerator, along with HBS Alumni Angels of NY. Flashpoint is a startup accelerator that creates better startups, faster. Atlanta ff Venture Capital HBS Alumni Angels New York' REGISTER NOW.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A few weeks ago I was in Atlanta for Techstars Atlanta Demo Day and the Venture Atlanta Conference. I had a great time and it’s fun to see the vibrancy of the Atlanta startup community. My favorite keynote at Venture Atlanta was from Scott Dorsey. I put him in the awesome category.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 2, 2022

Adding NatureBox to the HUNGRY platform enables us to provide our clients with exclusive access to NatureBox-branded snacks,” said HUNGRY co-founder and CEO Jeff Grass. and has rapidly growing operations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, New York City, Austin, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The Atlanta Tech Village is the brain child of David Cummings , a friend of mine and co-founder of my new company, Dragon Army. He purchased a 5-story building in Buckhead (corner of Piedmont and Lenox) with the idea of getting 600+ entrepreneurs in Atlanta stuffed into the same location and let the magic happen.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’m speaking today at entrepreneur.com’s Growth Conference in Atlanta , a talk I’m calling 3 Weeks to Startup after the book that I co-authored (disclosure: I’m the half author). I will be featuring my top 10 list of startup mistakes.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The goal in startup hiring, he says, is to make people feel they can’t walk away. Photo by nappy: [link]. “I

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

They accepted the awards last Thursday at the Entrepreneur.com Third Annual Growth Conference, held this year in Atlanta. As he accepted the award he shared that his small startup had been on the brink of disaster when it landed a contract with a major hotel chain. For each of them there was a short videoand a short talk.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 22, 2018

Cassandra Worthy recently gave The Startup Magazine her advice and insights to help entrepreneurs get over the hurdles of launching a startup. If you understand, what it takes to build an empire, you too can move ahead with your startup. Your startup will not get successful within a day. Wake up, wake up!

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Startup Georgia Atlanta Cofounder 91

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 9, 2011

When I was down at Startup Riot in Atlanta, someone handed me their business card. That’s why I was excited when my friend Emily , co-founder at Hashable , point out one of their most overlooked use cases—sending someone your business card via e-mail. I didn’t even have any on me. Funny thing is, we kind of are.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

And I’ve been dying to get my hands back into a true startup. Today the Atlanta Business Chronicle ran an article about the new company, Dragon Army , that David Cummings , Ryan Tuttle and I are starting. David Cummings , who last year sold his marketing automation startup for $95 million, will launch a “mobile app studio.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2011

They accepted the awards last Thursday at the Entrepreneur.com Third Annual Growth Conference, held this year in Atlanta. As he accepted the award, he shared that his small startup had been on the brink of disaster when it landed a contract with a major hotel chain. For each of them there was a short video and a short talk.

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Michigan Cofounder Atlanta Startup 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 18, 2013

What makes a great startup? It’s an important question to ask and very relevant to me at this moment both because I’ve started a new company recently and because I sit in middle of Atlanta Tech Village , where over 100 startups have set up camp already. You might think its the BIG IDEA that makes a great startup.

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Atlanta Startup Cofounder Salary 58

Jeff Hilimire

OCTOBER 11, 2013

I think I’ve adequately shared my happiness with being able to start Dragon Army within the Atlanta Tech Village to anyone who I’ve talked to in the last month and of course, on this blog. Bonus: Michael also has a great piece in Creative Loafing talking about the Atlanta startup scene. He had several great examples.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 17, 2014

A few months back Prem Bhatia (co-founder of Cooleaf , a really cool startup you should check out) asked me if I wanted to be a mentor in Founder Institute. It was really a no-brainer for me as the list of mentors is great , Prem is A+ and I love helping startups, so I quickly accepted the invitation.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. (For I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

We’ve collaborated with Notley Ventures as investors in startups and as organizers of the Startup Games and are excited to build on that relationship with this joint venture. cross investing in funds and startups, hosting events together, and mentoring. Since then we’ve had a collaborative relationship?—?cross

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I’ve had the opportunity to hear people questioning David Cumming’s decision to build Atlanta Tech Village over the past several months. David is both a friend and a co-founder of Dragon Army , so I know him fairly intimately. And he, like Bezos, doesn’t worry about what people think about his decisions.

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 20, 2012

Have you let your co-founders down? ” Do you know what the word “pivot” actually means, as opposed to what startup pop culture thinks it means? If I were to honestly report my weaknesses, failures, and shortcomings as a founder, would that make you more or less likely to work with me in the future?

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