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Melissa Pegus had her work cut out for her when she was tapped as the Managing Director for Techstars Atlanta Powered by J.P. Morgan, one of the latest startup programs to open in the city. The program was searching for startups building in the commerce, consumer, and creator economy
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For startup GeoCloud, it is truly all about location, location, location. The Atlanta-based venture is creating new location-based experiences and making it possible for more people to find their community wherever they are in the world. It isn’t just about getting someone from Point A to Point B. From
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“Gig City” continues to find innovative ways to help local businesses. Chattanooga announced last month that it is upping its commitment to more ubiquitous internet access with the launch of the country’s first 25 gig internet service delivered over a 100% fiber optic network. That comes after EPB – Chattanooga’
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More of Silicon Valley is moving to Georgia. Plug and Play Tech Center, the world’s largest innovation platform, is “plugging” into the Atlanta and Savannah ecosystems to expand the startup and corporate innovation landscape. Both cities are a natural fit for the Bay Area-based center that is a hybrid
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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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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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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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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 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