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Blooksy started out with the audacious goal to create more novelists. But as the Atlanta-based startup grew over the last year, founder Anthony ‘AJ’ Joiner recognized a number of users weren’t necessarily using the platform to write the next great American novel. Instead, Blooksy had been organically attracting professors
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What a difference a year makes. Summer 2021 was all about shipping containers, as alarm bells went off that Christmas presents would be stuck at US ports and consumers could expect delays in just about every item on their wish list. This summer, all eyes are on warehouse shelves. A
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The City of Peachtree Corners is looking to pave new roads between the startup communities in Atlanta and Taiwan. Curiosity Lab, the city’s innovation park focused on smart cities and mobility technologies, is partnering with Startup Terrace, an entrepreneurial hub supported by the Taiwanese government and organized by Taiwan’
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It’s common for startup founders to compare themselves to the Ubers or Facebooks of the world when they are trying to explain their idea's potential. For St. Petersburg-based Protoco’s founder Michael Otis, a procurement software startup going after the SMB market, HubSpot is that company to
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Just the mention of sales tax calculations might be enough to make business owners panic. And for good reason, as Mike Sanders and Brent Reeves explained to Hypepotamus recently. Sanders describes the current US sales tax system as a stack of “uneven pancakes” where each pancake represents a different tax
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Absenteeism continues to plague offices across the country. Illness, childcare logistics, and transportation issues are the top reasons why someone calls out of work, which ultimately wreaks havoc on a company’s bottom line. It is a particular problem for customer-facing and seasonal roles in the service sector, according to
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It’s impossible to escape the “myth of the garage” in the startup world. That myth is so embedded in the origin story of companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, and HP that it has led to an almost romanticized view of what can come from tinkering with an idea from
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The “transition” into entrepreneurship was pretty natural for Kayla Wright-Jackson and Corey Shaw. Wright-Jackson, originally from Denver, previously worked across the healthcare space as a kinesiologist, caregiver, and educator. She then received her Master of Health Administration degree from MSU Denver which led her to become the head of HR
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After earning an Apparel Merchandising degree from Louisiana State University, Anastasia Simon said she envisioned her career path might play out something like The Devil Wears Prada. But she hit an entrepreneurial streak and started designing her own path within the tech ecosystem. Simon graduated during the last recession and
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Techstars and Cox Enterprises’ second accelerator program in Atlanta was launched specifically to change how startups shaped the social impact space. Now, it’s looking to make an even larger influence. Techstars Impact Powered by Cox Enterprises (previously known as Social Impact), is designed to help for-profit ventures working with
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It was a classic “build the plane in the air” scenario for the team at Dana Lynch Design. The accomplished Atlanta-based firm landed an opportunity to design the interiors for several large new-urbanism communities. That work came with its own unique challenges. “We had to figure out a better way
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Zinnias aren’t just the cheerful pop of color for a garden or a bouquet. They are the inspiration and namesake for the latest startup out of Atlanta Ventures Studio. The flower is a fast-growing and resilient variety that is known for its color variation brought about by cross-pollination. Those