Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It began as a network that brought physical copies of newspapers to travelers abroad. We are now based in Atlanta, but we started out on a college campus in Jamaica as a team of one: me. In 2016, I celebrated 10 years of business by launching the PR firm in Atlanta, where I now live. Thanks to Saleem Jaffer, Joblife ! #16

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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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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Hearpreneur

MAY 16, 2018

There was only one major nurse agency business in the Atlanta market, and I knew there was room for improvement. Tiring of the reality TV scene, I decided that I wanted to enter into the tech industry and starting reading and studying voraciously about tech startups, took online courses from Stanford and Harvard (that are free online!)

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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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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. We now have an incredible network of spaces, partners, and supporters. Stay tuned!).

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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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”. When the night is over and you’ve made new friends, go home and watch Housewives of Atlanta – it’s your secret. Avoid being labeled as startup from a “special group” program. Shed the inferiority complex.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

You’ve decided to undertake a startup, now how exactly are you going to go about that? Allow me to emphasize that native talent and temperament have a lot to do with how you determine your goal, whether it’s golf or creating a startup. They learn how to talk with potential customers and de-risk their plans from the start.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

View all videos » api-video/find_all_videos.asp&fields=id,thumbnailURL,guid,video320kMP4Url,name,duration&count=4&doctype=128&type=allthingsd-section&query=Network+Effect. Coca-Cola - Atlanta, GA. ATDstartups (Startups). Latest Video. Search » Featured Posts. Featured Reviews. Saying Goodbye to Online Lurking.

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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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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Any time you have Techcrunch publishing articles like, “ Our 9 Favorite Startups From Y Combinator Summer 2015 Demo Day 2” , you’re going to get some hyped companies. Any time you have a “ Mindshare Score ” that ranks all startups you’re going to end up with some hype. Many investors pride themselves on that ability.

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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. and Venture Atlanta, provide great opportunities for both targeted and informal networking with prospective investors from all over the country.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 25, 2014

The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. As the CEO of a startup, how do you manage your time? Any tips for other startup leaders? The amount of work to create those initial networks that help our innovation today is mind boggling. This is the tenth installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2013

Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) today announced it has joined Cowtown Angel Network, Central Texas Angel Network and Golden Seeds in a $3 million investment in Austin-based Wisegate. Enterprise ATA CTAN wisegate'

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. And so the site isn't just where, how you can find out how you can work with her, but it's a webinar that she's gonna be doing or you know, a small gathering she's doing in Atlanta, Georgia to bring people together to talk about these things.

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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. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs. – A suite of templates and legal and other forms for a typical startup (e.g.,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Check them out down below: Atlanta. Atlanta is a fantastic city to start a small business in. Secondly, it’s well-known that Atlanta has great educational institutes. There will be plenty of networking opportunities and lots of keen people willing to work for you. So, you can get the legalities out of the way, fast.

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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. This is where you’ll find the most experienced, most ambitious, top employees.

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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. Each year, major corporations, tech companies, startups, ecosystem builders, influencers and foundations sponsor HBCU@SXSW.

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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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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Atlanta Tech Angels. Wilmington Investor Network. Central Texas Angel Network. Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. flat to down.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2020

I’ve become aware that my existing network creates and perpetuates systemic inequities. Rather than abandon my existing network, I’m investing time and energy in expanding my perspective and network through the various things I pay attention to and get involved in.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The decentralization conversation in blockchain is more of a libertarian ideology than information architecture — most of the people talking about decentralization are libertarian quacks rallying up thoughts of not being beholden to tyranny and has nothing to do with actually implementing decentralized networks.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2016

If your startup is in the tech industry, this is also the perfect place to find new talent. And while you’re networking, you’ll learn from other startups and established businesses that are connecting businesses with customers in new and innovative ways. Atlanta International Gift Show. Location : Atlanta, GA.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Wisegate, a platform for information technology professionals to network, announced Tuesday it has closed on $4 million in venture capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 9, 2011

When I was down at Startup Riot in Atlanta, someone handed me their business card. We all, however, come home from various networking events and business meetings with pocketfuls of business cards that rarely find their way into our digital contact databases. I didn’t even have any on me. Funny thing is, we kind of are.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Well before Hurricane Harvey was a proper noun, I was asked to teach a social media class at The Black Burdell ’s #BSOE conference in Atlanta, Georgia. We’re networking, retweeting, sharing photos, and having necessary discussions with high school acquaintances via a controversial Facebook status.

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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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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Steve Belkin , owner of the Atlanta Hawks, couldn't get his first deal financed and wound up cobbling together a friends and family round to start his travel company in the 70s. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups. Check credentials. March 2011.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Instead the winners are Dallas, Atlanta and Waco. The startup-focused news site Austin Inno believes this is just a matter of time. That Austin got passed over for 5G network deployment is discouraging in the race for smart cities technology. But our fair city didn’t make the list of locations that will get 5G first. Here’s Why.

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Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 20, 2013

Atlanta has a great many startups (roughly 500 based on David Cummings’s back-of-the-napkin math ) and it seems every time I attend a networking event I learn about more. This is one the areas that I think a lot of startups ignore so I was excited to hear more about her business. Who are you and what do you do?

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Charles, as many of you know, is one of the first startup successes in Atlanta, founding MindSpring in 1994. And we’ll be hosting the event at one of my favorite Atlanta venues, the Center for Civic Innovation. 5:30-6:30pm: Networking with light snacks provided. 7:30-8:30pm: Networking.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

A good buddy of mine started a new kind of curated newsletter, Atlanta Stacks , and I wanted to a) figure out why he created it and b) spread the word, because I think it’s terrific. Wow, better you than me ;) So what is Atlanta Stacks and why did you create it? So I thought, sure, let’s do that at the same time!

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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 I've also been spending a lot of time on the phone with my family and my mom in Atlanta. I was developing a mesh network that I envisioned being useful in the developing world and for the internet of things.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2021

I would experience some social anxiety mixed with generally feeling overwhelmed by my own internal scorecarding and thoughts of, “Am I networking enough?” In the past, these would always trip me up. Now on Zoom, I can just fall back to audio-only, or drop off the gathering when I’m ready to leave. Working with founders.

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