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Brothers Scott Sickles and Brad Sickles separately built successful engineering careers in corporate and startup spaces. Now, they’ve teamed up to tackle what they both experienced as a main development pain point: Deploying apps for SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) is often a clunky and frustrating experience. Of course, we talked
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It was the Downtown Atlanta skyline that first captured Sherilyn Francis’ heart. “I happened to come to Atlanta one day on a whim and when I saw the cityscape driving through downtown...it was absolutely beautiful and said I have to move here,” she told Hypepotamus. Move she did, and
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Many HealthTech startups, like Atlanta-based Impiricus, saw impressive growth over 2021 as healthcare systems navigated the changing nature of the pandemic. And the move towards digital health isn’t going to change, says Impiricus CEO Sandy Donaldson, which is helping to accelerate growth for the platform connecting physicians with the
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The digital marketing puzzle is one that every scaling company has to solve. But that puzzle has only become more complex over the course of the pandemic, especially for mid-market brands, says Jared Belsky. “I think we will look back fondly and call the 2010’s the decade of cheap
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While Help Lightning got its start in a neurosurgeon wing of an Alabama hospital, the startup has scaled quickly and found new unique use cases as more industries look for remote visual assistance options. Gary York, Help Lightning CEO, told Hypepotamus that the University of Alabama at Birmingham neurosurgeon Dr.
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The founders behind what3words see the world in 10ft squares. That precision focus has some practical applications for individuals, whether someone is trying to locate a friend outside of a crowded sporting venue or determining the exact dropoff location for a rideshare. But as what3words expands its presence across the
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In the HR world, the “Great Resignation” has been the big talking point of 2021. But as veteran HR professional Sarah Rodehorst told Hypepotamus, companies have long struggled with handling involuntary terminations, which hit upwards of 14% of the workforce each year. “Separations are time-consuming, they're difficult, and
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When New York-founded startup Thnks started outgrowing its first office in Midtown Manhattan, Brendan Kamm and Larry Rubin sat down to discuss the next move. “We both said we should go south because that would be cheaper. At the time, “south” meant 14th Street Manhattan,” Kamm told Hypepotamus. But as
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Recent Georgia Tech graduates Stephen Ralph Jr. and Sims Pettway had a foot in entrepreneurship years before launching their latest venture, Canary. Prior to heading to Georgia Tech to study Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering respectively, they both had built up independent drone videography and photography businesses while in high
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It only takes a quick scan on Zillow to get a sense of just how unaffordable housing options are in a number of American cities. With rent prices soaring well over $1,600 in the Atlanta area, the lack of affordable housing options is strongly tied to the labor shortage
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Chris Rich has watched crime detection and the physical security space change since first launching his safety concierge service, Hawque, back in 2018. This “birds-eye view” helped him pinpoint a key problem in how commercial real estate developers and property management companies use video monitoring systems to keep people and
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Next time you’re at Hartsfield-Jackson, you’re likely to run into Omarie Mann somewhere in the terminal. But he won’t be with you catching the next flight out of town. He’s busy building his startup, Rush The Line, an on-demand food delivery service for those who find