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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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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and timeā€”an approach that we then patented.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Research Triangle

ReadWriteStart

But the concentration of tech research and development extends beyond the bounds of just the research park itself, and the surrounding Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary, North Carolina metro areas are commonly labeled together as the Research Triangle, or "The Triangle.".

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People Comparison Shop, Stupid

ConversionXL

Matt Winslow, co-founder of Dodo competitor Beacon Cases in Raleigh, N.C., Entrepreneur Magazine has a story of how someone looking for an iPad case sent out a tweet: “Looking @DODOsays iPad cases–and *this close* to pulling the trigger … Any opinions out there?” ” As it happened, there were.

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MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN

Austin Startup

ā€œI didnā€™t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldnā€™t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,ā€ said Schwartzfarb. Denver, CO?ā€”? 23: Raleigh, NC Sept.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share their Favorite Quotes

Hearpreneur

There is an opportunity to build the best real estate company in Raleigh, NC and this quote keeps me going, even when there is no light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks to Ryan Fitzgerald, Raleigh Realty. #7 Edwin Land, Polaroid co-founder. 7 – A Fish on Land. Photo Credit : Michael Stratta. 8 – Old Ideas.

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Transcript of How National Companies Can Infiltrate Local Markets

Duct Tape Marketing

She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com that is doing a very innovative take on helping organizations wherever they are matched with local nonprofit and community organizations as a way to create marketing partnerships, a very, very innovative approach, check it out. She is the co-founder and CEO of ZipSprout dot com.