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An app that actually wants to decrease your screen time? It might sound like a contradiction, but Charlotte-based Offline is looking to do just that by helping people rediscover and reconnect with local restaurants. Founder and CEO David Shaner, a chemical engineering graduate from NC State, was fresh out of
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For Max Farrell, the employee-employer relationship had been fundamentally flawed long before the “Great Resignation” made it a pressing topic for most companies. “For the longest time companies just ‘recruited away’ their turnover challenges, which we've always seen as a really backwards approach to growing a business,’ he
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It was looking like the right time for founder Katie Hotze to start raising capital. Her startup Grocery Shopii just won Charlotte Innovation Week and she told Hypepotamus that the team had “a lot of momentum and energy.” The only problem: It was early 2020. While check writing all but
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It started with a problem close to home for entrepreneur and founder Chris Turner. Or, perhaps it would be better to say, a problem close to school. Turner was looking for early learning options for his young children, but the schools he toured, which included some of the best local
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Combating “The Big Quit” or “The Great Resignation” is a family affair for the Sloan’s of Atlanta, who have come together to create the Go Beyond platform. Go Beyond is designed as a tech-driven way for employees to find their individual purpose. In doing so, they hope to create
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This Tax Season is a bit more complicated for the 16% of Americans who bought and sold cryptocurrencies recently. Even for the casual crypto trader, tax requirements can be complicated to navigate. “Crypto investors are generally trading on multiple exchanges and using wallets to facilitate transferring funds,” said the team
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After years of building and advising startups in Atlanta, Tim Dorr was ready to move to the other side of the investing table. The opportunity to do just that came this month with his new role in the Managing Director seat at Techstars Atlanta. He’s following in the footsteps
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The alternative investing ‘universe’ of private equity, venture capital, or other illiquid assets has long struggled with two problems: It’s expensive to enter and difficult to navigate. While over $13 trillion is invested in the alternatives space currently, it remains “incredibly opaque” and only available to institutional investors, according
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Following a round of seed investment late last year, Atlanta-based GigLabs has been busy helping more household name brands enter the growing NFT space. The most recent is the Atlanta Hawks, which announced this week the launch of a “Harry The Hawk” NFT collection. While 40 hand-drawn NFTs of the
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While western states may first come to mind when it comes to wildfires, evacuations on the Florida Panhandle this week are a reminder that the Southeast is actually one of the more active fire areas in the country. That was something a group of North Carolina high schoolers saw firsthand.
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A note of disclosure before we begin. The Hypepotamus team did not actually stay up for 24 hours to this story (we value our sleep). We did, however, consume lots of Punch Card drip coffee. The following is a combination of what we saw and who we met after spending
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The modern construction site could be taken over by drones, thanks to an Atlanta-based SkyMul. Eohan George started looking at how tech could solve common, and often dangerous, problems on construction sites. During the customer discovery process, he saw that rebar tying was a cumbersome task. “We were initially confident