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Lessons in Leadership: How First Data Builds An Acquisition Pipeline Through Partnerships

When you're a corporation with thousands of employees and numerous departments to manage, innovation is hard to nurture. Companies take different routes to find it — some open innovation centers and others send employees to accelerators to stay current. Global fintech leader First Data looks outside their organization, finding

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Homey App Teaches Kids To Budget While Helping Parents Track Chores

Teaching financial literacy at a young age has a big effect later on — especially considering that according to the Federal Reserve, total U.S. outstanding consumer debt was $3.62 trillion as of May 2016. Learning accountability, the need to stay within a budget, and concepts like credit and debt,

SalesTing Connects Your Sales and Marketing Teams to Measure Real Impact on Leads

SalesTing Connects Your Sales and Marketing Teams to Measure Real Impact on Leads

There's no shortage of sales software to help you gather and pursue leads. But do you really know who within the team is qualifying leads and what strategies worked? Often, a company's marketing team doesn't communicate enough with the sales team, even though sales

This Startup Wants to Make Medical Bills Pain-Free

This Startup Wants to Make Medical Bills Pain-Free

Medical bills are one of the easiest payments to fall through the cracks — unlike a monthly bill, there's rarely a reminder system, and between handling unexpected illness or injuries and coordinating with health insurance, you can easily forget. One in five Americans with medical insurance have unpaid, past-due

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This Company Relocated To Tennessee For Chattanooga's "Best In the World" Gig Fiber

One would think a company focused specifically on alleviating maritime (water-bound) risks would surely have to be located in a state on the coast. But Corey Ranslem, founder of International Maritime Security (IMSA), made the decision to move his company from Florida to Chattanooga, TN, specifically because of the internet

Sprocket Creative's Apprenticeship Program Turns Traditional Artists Into Tech-Enabled Masters

Sprocket Creative's Apprenticeship Program Turns Traditional Artists Into Tech-Enabled Masters

Video production company Sprocket Creative's office is reminiscent of Batman's cave, filled with large comic book posters, figurines, and audio production rooms with themes like nautical monsters and Star Trek. Creativity is the name of the game here. With clients like Adult Swim, Adobe, CBS and

From the Founders of QASymphony, A New Atlanta Startup Helps Developers Connect to Any Real Mobile Device

From the Founders of QASymphony, A New Atlanta Startup Helps Developers Connect to Any Real Mobile Device

Mobile-first or, increasingly, mobile-only are becoming common concepts, and apps are big business — the Apple App Store alone will more than double from 2016 to 2020, with a projected 5 million active apps. But it’s also a tough business considering over 90 percent of all downloaded apps are used