Education
There’s a common misconception out there that entrepreneurs have to come up and execute a great idea from scratch. But the reality is that the person with the original concept might not be the right person to turn that idea into a viable, scalable business. That’s where things
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Elya Lane means it when she says her app, Corra Health, literally saved her life. Throughout her late teens and early twenties, Lane struggled with chronic pain and health issues. Well into adulthood, her doctors continuously called it “growing pains.” She had persistent infections that landed her in the emergency
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From bagel to potato chips, there’s a National Day for just about everything. Most of these days certainly make for fun social media content (think #NationalMargaritaDay on February 22). But others – like March 1’s Global Day of Unplugging – can be a good reminder of positive habits we might
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Could the next Tesla or Rivian founder come from Atlanta? ROBOKONG is working to make that happen. Founded by Kidd Kong, ROBOKONG is an electric vehicle education program run at the J.D. Sims Recreation Center in Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward neighborhood. As a robotics enthusiast and coach, Kong
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There’s a reason senior leaders at large public companies like Shutterstock, Capital One, and Target turn to Atlanta-based Nerd/Noir when they are ready to scale up. A self described “computer kid,” CEO and co-founder David Laribee has been a full-time programmer since the mid-1990s. He quickly found himself
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Those arriving at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport are used to seeing signs for baggage claim, MARTA, and ridesharing companies like Lyft and Uber. But now, they are greeted by a homegrown and bootstrapped transportation option, HERide. While the female friendly ride share service has been operating at the airport since September,
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Lauren Glass faced a problem many fresh college graduates experience after getting their diploma. Quite simply, it is really hard to stand out with a generic one–page resume and land that important first job. “I looked like every other person with a bachelors in business and no real work
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If the last text you received came from your favorite brand, you aren’t alone. SMS or text messaging has become a ubiquitous part of the marketing world. Today, businesses use SMS for important marketing initiatives, 1:1 outreach, and customer service messaging. It's effective, with 97 percent
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When founders going through Google’s prestigious Black Founders Fund need a therapist to talk about the hard stuff, they turn to Chantel Cohen. Cohen, a therapist and founder/CEO of CWC Coaching and Therapy, has held over 2,500 sessions over the last five years with founders going through
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When you think about entrepreneurial “hubs,” a major city corridor or a downtown building probably comes to mind. That has historically been the case for cities like Atlanta, where Midtown’s Tech Square and the area around Buckhead’s Atlanta Tech Village have been magnets for entrepreneurial talent over the
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One of Atlanta’s most recognizable SaaS startups has a new name. LeaseQuery, the lease accounting platform, announced earlier this month that it has rebranded to FinQuery. The startup got off the ground in 2011 when accountant-turned-entrepreneur George Azih saw a fundamental flaw in how most companies organized their lease
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Economists don’t have crystal balls to predict the future, but they do have numbers. Monthly jobs reports. Unemployment data. New business registrations. Consumer goods pricing. Regional home sales. Gross GDP. Whatever the Federal Reserve hints at about their interest rate plans. They also have plenty of data to parse