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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy.-- Jeff Sloan may be recently retired, but he’s still fighting to keep Georgia globally competitive
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Atlanta’s personality-based dating platform Hatched is in expansion mode. The startup, which launched last November to connect singles across the Metro area, is moving into Charlotte, North Carolina. Opening other Southeastern cities, like Nashville and Birmingham, is also on the horizon, says co-founder Mitch Alterman. Branching out from Atlanta
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You have the idea. Your MVP is built and the website is up and running. Now, you’re ready to talk about your startup to just about anyone who will listen. A good business pitch will make or break an early-stage company. But pitching is daunting if you've
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Atlanta artist Chandler Sherry was on the road when she first learned about the co-warehousing and micro-fulfillment center startup Saltbox. “I saw one of their billboard signs that read, ‘A space where your dreams can grow.’ As cheesy as it sounds, I immediately pulled in for a tour. Since that
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A little work mixed with a little play. That’s what James Chapman is bringing to founders and creatives across Atlanta with the launch of Tech Tuesdays. Chapman, the founder and CEO of Plain Sight, is hosting a series of free events for those looking to connect more into the
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Big companies might hire a consulting firm like Deloitte, KPMG, PwC or EY to work on a specific project or get help validating a new operational strategy. But those consulting services are often out of reach for small-to-medium sized (SMB) businesses. Some SMBs will turn to marketplaces like Fiverr to
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It’s hard to miss the Cleantech boom happening right now across the State of Georgia. The last 24 months have been a blur of headlines about the state’s push to bring in new EV companies and battery manufacturing plants necessary to fuel the shift to renewable energy. International
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The way STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is taught in US schools is fundamentally flawed, says the team behind the Atlanta-based startup Inspirit. The big problem? Real-world applications aren't front and center. “Today most STEM learning content is passive and non-interactive with a teacher using a PowerPoint
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Donald Boone knew it was time to leave Corporate America when he saw an overlooked market within the B2B world. While working with Amazon Business, the procurement side of the e-commerce giant’s operation, he saw first-hand how brands didn’t have any easy way to rent out their equipment.
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An internship can be an important step for any young college student. But more often than not, those interns are left doing “busy work” while clocking in 40 hours a week over the summer. The team behind Runway thought there had to be a better way for students to get
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While building the Atlanta cybersecurity startup Curricula, founder and CEO Nick Santora kept running into one big problem: It's really hard to find specialized engineering talent. Curricula had reached an inflection point. The fast-growing SaaS startup needed to hire more people, but the search for that talent was
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Building a company is hard. And achieving success is even harder. So it’s no surprise that a lot has been written about the decision to start a company and how to run it. But what about when it’s time to leave? I spent five years as Co-Founder and