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Let’s say you’re a lawyer. You have the day off. And you’re headed to do something fun, like golf or croquet. Then, you get a phone call. You look at the caller ID. It’s your client -- Steve. And you know that any call with Steve
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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
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For an Atlanta-based mother-daughter entrepreneurial team, deep conversations can start right in the App Store. Seventh-grader Serenity Marie and her mom Quyionah Wingfield recently launched Gen Connect Game, a platform to spark more family engagement through a curated list of questions and in-app activities. Gen Connect also comes with a
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The “Beauty Tech” industry boomed during pandemic lockdowns, and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. The beauty device market alone is expected to reach $107.2 billion by 2024, especially as at-home styling trends continue to grow in 2021. While Atlanta-based DashStylists is bringing a tech-enabled
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Cameron Ramsdell built his career around the shipping and logistics industry. But he wasn’t initially sold on trucking. While US Census data shows there are 711,000 different trucking companies employing over 3.5 million people, Ramsdell told Hypepotamus that the industry remained fragmented and largely adverse to technology
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First, it was COVID. Then trade tensions. Then winter storms and international power outages. Then ships stuck in canals and an unprecedented labor shortage. All news became supply chain news in 2021, as the global economy looked to rebound and rebalance in the wake of the pandemic. “At the beginning
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Move over Amazon. The nature of e-commerce is changing, thanks to live stream commerce options making shopping more personal and interactive. Livestream commerce originated in China in 2015 and has become an integral part of the country’s e-commerce landscape ever since. A McKinsey report estimates the market reached $171
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Sammie Hasen’s passion for entrepreneurship and consumer products started well before joining Georgia Tech’s accelerator Create-X. As an “idea maker,” Hasen said she dabbled in entrepreneurship with a t-shirt brand early in her early teens before heading to Georgia Tech to study biomedical engineering. While at tech, Hasen
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Since its inception, Atlanta-based startup MaxRewards has been focused on “helping people make smarter financial decisions,” said co-founder and CEO Anik Khan. The platform initially gained traction in the student loan repayment space, but Khan said he and his team wanted to get closer to an area of FinTech they
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After publishing five books himself, Anthony “AJ” Joiner knew writers needed a tech solution to shape their ideas into books and get those books into the hands of more readers. He’s taken his background as a software project manager into the publishing world with Blooksy, an Atlanta-based subscription-based SaaS
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From gaming to entertainment to training, Georgia companies have been pushing VR/AR space forward over the years. Now, two different Georgia universities are using VR to improve our health and wellness, which is estimated to be a $11 billion industry by 2026. We heard from a Georgia Tech graduate
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Chapel Hill resident Ryan Walsh knows the pain points sales professionals and sales organizations face. “For modern B2B organizations, especially growth organizations, the quest and the search for sales talent is one of — if not the highest — priority,” Walsh tells Hypepotamus. But for employees, gaining insight into the realities of