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Meet Our Newest Investment: Properly

View from Seed

The main value propositions are: user experience and value – home sellers can manage the entirety of their selling activities through its app and cloud-based platform, from valuation to showing scheduling to negotiation and closing, while paying a $5,000 flat fee vs. the industry tradition of 3% commission.

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The Secret Sauce Of Start-Up Success

YoungUpstarts

As the leader of the company, you need to spend a significant amount of time with your team and make sure your managers are doing the same. Wain Kellum is CEO of Atlanta, Georgia-based VoIP service provider Vocalocity. You may have a different role, but you are certainly not more important!

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5 Questions for a CEO: Raymond King, Zoo Atlanta

Jeff Hilimire

I love Zoo Atlanta and am currently on the marketing advisory council where I meet quarterly to help the marketing team plan their strategy. Raymond and I are also both on the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Board and at the last meeting I was asking him about his process for staying productive and thought, I need to blog about this!

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The Top Nine Challenges Of Growing an Entrepreneurial Business And How To Tackle Them

YoungUpstarts

Some of them, such as Eyebobs in Minneapolis, Trilogy Health Services in Kentucky, Defender Direct in Indianapolis, SecureWorks in Atlanta, and Mellace Family Brands in California, were well-known companies. You must evolve from being a doer to a manager of employees and then eventually to a manager of managers (a leader).

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Why do Startups need to invest in Conversation Intelligence in 2022?

ReadWriteStart

Sales Data Management. On its adoption, they realized they could even create call playlists, making it easy to manage their recording and sharing. Conversation Intelligence was even able to automatically log daily sales activities and call notes on the CRM, making sales data management easy for them. . Customer demands .

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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

Michael Hiskey, CMO of data management software provider Semarchy , advises startups to locate the data they need before beginning to develop AI solutions. Geospiza , which launched in 2017, uses climate data analytics to help emergency managers and elected officials save lives in disaster situations.

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

The Next Web

then takes the group back to Atlanta —zombie-riddled Atlanta, which he just escaped from—to try and free Merle! The lesson: As well as working to make sure his team can succeed externally— out in the real world, vs. zombies or a zombified telecommunications industry ( there it is!)—, a good leader has to manage his own team internally.