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Cristian Robiou describes his road to GovTech as a bit of a “process of elimination.” He went to law school with the expectation of becoming an academic or a litigator, but saw entrepreneurship as a way to “solve real problems…and provide some social utility.” Government inefficiency was one real-world
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Community can come in all forms, but there might be one universal truth – measuring the concept of “community” is difficult. That difficulty is something that Marissa Huggins and Anthony Nagendraraj knew very well during their time in the corporation world. Huggins built her career in the nonprofits and Nagendraraj worked
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When the word “disrupt” is thrown around in the startup world, it is often used by a startup founder believing their technology can dismantle an entire industry. But talk to Brian Alvarez-Bailey and you’ll soon realize that he has something different in mind when it comes to “disrupting” the
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Blooksy started out with the audacious goal to create more novelists. But as the Atlanta-based startup grew over the last year, founder Anthony ‘AJ’ Joiner recognized a number of users weren’t necessarily using the platform to write the next great American novel. Instead, Blooksy had been organically attracting professors
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It’s common for startup founders to compare themselves to the Ubers or Facebooks of the world when they are trying to explain their idea's potential. For St. Petersburg-based Protoco’s founder Michael Otis, a procurement software startup going after the SMB market, HubSpot is that company to
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It’s impossible to escape the “myth of the garage” in the startup world. That myth is so embedded in the origin story of companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and HP that it has led to an almost romanticized view of what can come from tinkering with an idea from
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The “transition” into entrepreneurship was pretty natural for Kayla Wright-Jackson and Corey Shaw. Wright-Jackson, originally from Denver, previously worked across the healthcare space as a kinesiologist, caregiver, and educator. She then received her Master of Health Administration degree from MSU Denver which led her to become the head of HR
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Zinnias aren’t just the cheerful pop of color for a garden or a bouquet. They are the inspiration and namesake for the latest startup out of Atlanta Ventures Studio. The flower is a fast-growing and resilient variety that is known for its color variation brought about by cross-pollination. Those
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Pindrop is hitting the road this summer to reintroduce itself as a security company with a whole lot more to say. Those in the Atlanta startup community know Pindrop for its “voiceprinting” and voice fraud detection platform that was an early cybersecurity darling. The team has raised over $200 million
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Kentucky-based AppHarvest garnered celebrity backers and an impressive list of investors before going public via SPAC in early 2021. The AgTech startup has a big vision to change the way we feed the country…so it is only fitting that one of its former executives would go off and launch
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First, a business trivia question: What is the difference between supply chain management and procurement? If you are tripped up by those definitions, you aren’t alone. “If you ask ten people what “procurement” is you are likely to get more than 15 answers,” Anders Lillevik told Hypepotamus. But procurement,
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Let’s talk taxes. Maybe that statement makes you want to scroll away. But founders might want to sit up and keep reading…because accounting can be a big headache even in the smallest of startup ventures. As early-stage founders themselves, the team behind Atlanta-based TaxZen felt the pain of