B2C
Lindsay deOliveira's entrepreneurial journey started with a drawing she did in Microsoft Paint. An optician by training, deOliveira was at home with her newborn daughter in 2021 and 2022 when she experienced something that most new parents will understand: It was next to impossible to find a pacifier
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B2B (business-to-business) startups have to navigate a notoriously difficult sales cycle. But the Southeast is known for creating B2B startup and scaleup success stories. So this week, we are turning the mic over to current B2B founders so they can share pieces of advice that up-and-coming founders need to hear.
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Techstars Atlanta Powered By Cox Enterprises didn’t have to look too far from home to find the startups for its 2024 cohort. Over half of the startups selected come from either Atlanta or the great Southeast region. From AI-powered marketplaces to roommates matching apps, here are the startups just
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Morehouse College students might walk onto campus this coming fall and be greeted by an AI TA. Certain professors at the HBCU in Atlanta will be adopting a digitized, animated, AI-powered version of themselves that can answer class questions at any time. That can help professors clear up their schedules
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New York's early-stage, women-led VC firm HearstLab is coming to Atlanta this fall...and they want to hear pitches from local female founders. HearstLab has picked Atlanta for its next live pitch event location. Selected companies will pitch in front of a live audience and an expert panel
B2B
Building SaaS (Software as a Service) startups are notoriously challenging. Founders must not only build a stellar platform, they must ensure it is scalable as they bring on new and bigger customers. Navigating the fast-paced and crowded world of SaaS can be daunting for new founders. So we turned to
B2C
Over half of the Americans are part of the hourly workforce. And yet the big job board players aren't designed with them — or their employers — in mind. Most job boards, like LinkedIn and Indeed, focus on salaried positions and aren't suitable for high turnover positions. That
B2B
Question for startup founders out there: How many software subscriptions do you have for you and your team? Chances are your team spends the day bouncing between Slack, email, HubSpot, Notion, LinkedIn, a few different project management tools, and whatever platform holds your code. But as Metro Atlanta founders Kelly
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The Southeast’s business landscape is full of major FinTech players like First Data, WorldPay, Global Payments, TSYS, Equifax, NCR, Incomm, and Corpay. But it has also been fertile ground for the next generation of FinTech players, from unicorns AvidXchange in North Carolina and Greenlight in Atlanta to fast-growing startups
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Atlanta had its first 100 degree day in nearly five years this week. To beat the heat, stay inside and catch up on this week's headlines! The Big Story Atlanta-based Rainforest, an embedded payments fintech serving mid-market customers, raised a $20 million Series A from a mix of
B2B
Glitzy new artificial intelligence startups are popping up everywhere, and they’ve taken a bulk of venture capital checks written over the last year and a half. But it’s not just early-stage startups that are building the latest AI products. Seasoned tech companies, especially those in the Southeast, may
B2C
Startup founder Don Templeman wants to make polarization in journalism a thing of the past. That certainly seems like a lofty goal in 2024. Today, big media outlets and social media platforms build their audiences by reinforcing specific viewpoints. The reality is that the focus is on click rates and