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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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Now, more young adults will be able to take hold of their future and achieve the economic justice that has long been lacking in our most vulnerable communities.” In addition to alumni success, Road to Hire’s success is also measured by the deep community support that has rallied around the program in Charlotte.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level. Fortunately, it was around the same time that Brooks connected with Kathryn Finney of Digital Undivided , a community outreach program with the mission of getting black women started in tech. Invisible Barriers. But in reality, Brooks is an anomaly.

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Our #1 email marketing provider pick for a startup or small business. For any startup or small business, we recommend one email marketing provider. So our hands-down, number-one email marketing tool recommendation for a startup or small business is: MailChimp. Email marketing made easy for startups and small businesses.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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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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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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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. Pavo Collection. Persint, Inc.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This the 21st installment of Startup Decision Making will conclude my writing until after the Holidays. I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. All of them are performing at a very high level, and I take inspiration from them. Think about that.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. We are now based in Atlanta, but we started out on a college campus in Jamaica as a team of one: me. Thanks to Ryan O’Connor, One Tribe Apparel ! #11 16 – Living on $200/month.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2014

Yesterday, Kauffman Foundation released a study that provided empirical support for the Boulder Thesis that I came up with in my book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. 1 Million Cups Denver was also a recipient of one of the first Startup Colorado Community Fund grants.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. For starters, you have to get inside the head of a programmer who might want to work for your startup.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In the Startup Communities , I talk extensively about leaders and feeders. I assert than anyone in the startup community should be able to start / create / do anything that is helpful to the startup community. They don’t have to ask permission – there is no VP Activities in a startup community.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. —– Indie.vc

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. For example, consider public relations.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. MassChallenge is the world’s largest startup accelerator program. Stay tuned!).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries. Placement is 90%! The business model is simple.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2020

When Amy and I had life dinner on March 1st, we were both tired after a three-week trip to Boston, Miami, and Atlanta. Many direct benefits are wired into the local community, so there is a powerful feedback loop around feeling good about helping by actually helping. ” Prescient, but not really what we meant.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2012

Twice a year, every tech website seems to devote lavish coverage to just what startups made it into Y Combinator ’s latest class. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. Most cities, and even many rural areas, offer incubators or accelerators to support local entrepreneurship communities. Be strategic.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 26, 2014

For those that haven’t visited the Atlanta Tech Village – David Cummings ‘ tech/startup building in Buckhead – you’re really missing out. But over time I’ve found that the best thing about the Village is the community within. The Village is unlike anything I’ve experienced before.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. Carolyn Rodz (06:16): You know, I would say at our core, we're community, A community above all else. We never have.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I think the same goes for startup entrepreneurialism. Don recommends: Don’t just do startups “for us”. I know we romanticize the LGBT entrepreneur making an app for the LGBT community, but too many of our ideas are “ghettoized” and not seen as “big ideas”. Avoid being labeled as startup from a “special group” program.

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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. LOVE your job.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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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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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Most top startup lawyers have clients in many different cities, and lawyers specializing in emerging tech/startup work usually only exist in denser tech ecosystems. Background Reading: Bad Advisors: The Problem with Localism Navigating Referrals in a Connected Startup Ecosystem How to avoid “Captive” company counsel Gatekeepers v.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Additionally, she is the founder of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, a non-profit organization created to break down systemic barriers and foster systemic change for women and other underserved communities. Back then, in the early nineties or even the mid nineties, people didn't want to work for a startup. We didn't have the big name.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 23, 2018

Let’s be real… I was raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia and I had a privileged upbringing. Right after that trip, I decided I was going to leave Atlanta and explore a new city. I wanted to create a healthy family and a strong community around me. I went to private school and played on club sports teams.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 15, 2014

If you had time to watch the video where Jon Birdsong (CEO of Rivalry ) and I talked to Michael Tavani, Rob Kischuk and TJ Muehleman, you’ll know that one of the points the group made to Jon and I was that there is a lot of publicity about the Atlanta Tech Village but very little about the startups in the building. The community.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 19, 2014

On Wednesday we (those of us at the Atlanta Tech Village) were honored to have Mayor Kasim Reed come and speak to us in the morning and Brad Feld in the afternoon. The fact that he would come to the Village to hear the ideas of startup entrepreneurs means a great deal and he seemed to genuinely want to help our community.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 29, 2018

The premise of the series is to produce live events “featuring in-depth discussions with business leaders who are bringing transformational thinking to their company, industry and community.” ” The first event was a discussion between Highwire CEO, Alex Gonzalez , and Darren Eales , President of Atlanta United.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 24, 2014

But the things he says about the Atlanta Tech Village and the people busting their asses there are just flat wrong. In the article, Michael says: “…if you went to Atlanta Tech Village, 60 percent of the people there would be exactly what I think what you were trying to describe with me. .” ” Wow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Robert believes in "the powerful idea of self-reliance and this idea that you should know how to take care of yourself, and your family, and your community." I've been so focused on electronics hardware.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I was in Atlanta yesterday for Techstars Atlanta Demo Day. I’ll be here again today for Venture Atlanta and then I’m on to Kansas City for Techstars Kansas City Demo Day. I like Atlanta. Rule #1: Don’t eat the bugs on the window of the 23rd floor of your hotel.

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