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James Oliver, Jr. is ready to make a ‘buzz’ in the startup world by playing matchmaker. Kabila, which Oliver describes as “Bumble for co-founders,” is about helping entrepreneurs find their perfect co-founder match for a budding idea. “The main thing is to bring people together to get the conversation started
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It’s the question we all know well when at a store’s checkout counter. Cash? Credit? Or Debit? How we answer that has important ramifications for us as consumers as well as for the stores we are shopping at. Credit card transaction fees can add up quickly, but banknotes
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Bootstrapped startup WelcomeHome is building a new type of CRM, only this one is designed specifically to help the elderly care space. “Senior living operators have several pain points. They need to recruit, build and maintain great employees who will care for their residents. They need to keep their communities
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North Carolina has landed a new international VC. SixThirty, a St. Louis-based firm with roots in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam, announced it is opening up operations in the Research Triangle area and is tapping a local investor to do just that. Joe Darcy, who received his MBA from UNC,
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Typically, a packed house at Atlanta’s Fox Theater would mean a big band or a Broadway tour had rolled into town. But on Thursday night, the theater was packed with those looking to catch a glimpse of the latest founders to come out of Georgia Tech’s Create-X program,
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As if COVID and supply chain challenges weren’t enough to navigate, ecommerce companies were dealt another major blow last year. It is now astronomically harder to measure digital marketing efforts, thanks to a series of platform updates across Apple, Google, Facebook, and other major ad-based platforms. “2020 was really
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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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The courts may be small, but its influence is growing. With upwards of 5 million players in the US, pickleball is the country’s fastest-growing sport. Players are from all ages and walks of life, drawn to the game for its fast-paced, social nature. A group of Atlanta-based entrepreneurs is
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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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Telling the story of the local Memphis community came naturally to Kontji Anthony as she’d spent the last 17 years building up her career at the anchor desk at the NBC affiliate WMC-TV. Now, Anthony is writing her own story in the city with the launch of Youdle, a
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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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Natalie Waggett’s entrepreneurial story is one of passion and joy and grief. And it is ultimately the story of what good can come when you sit down and enjoy a good beer with someone. Waggett spent her professional career in banking and consulting before finding her passion for bringing