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Diving into startups wasn’t Joey Womack’s initial career plan. He intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an accountant, and he was eyeing one of the Big Four firms after graduating from Florida A&M. But he caught the ‘startup bug’ while thinking about
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Lindsey Cox said she found her way into the entrepreneurial world through a “happy accident.” The native Tennessean went to Tennessee Tech University for accounting and started working at the state comptroller's office after graduation. It was in that role that she started diving into economic development. Since
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Brightwell had become a known name in the maritime world as a payroll distribution platform for cruise ship workers. Customers came from just about every country in the world to get help moving money back home in a fast, easy, and affordable way. The Atlanta-based FinTech was operating 24/7,
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Dana Xavier Dojnik has a knack for creating new spaces. She started out in the competitive New York advertising scene in the 90s and quickly forged her path in the emerging world of digital. After years of consulting during the dotcom boom she eventually founded her own design consultancy which
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Atlanta-based SingleOps has a new CEO. The SaaS startup named Mark Sedgley as its new top executive last week, taking over from co-founder Sean McCormick who has been in the position since 2014. SingleOps has reached an inflection point that most startups hit as they continue to scale. And Sedgley’
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Atlanta has served as fertile ground for both enterprise teams and early-stage founders over the years. From Downtown to Midtown to Sandy Springs, Metro Atlanta’s business districts are filled with both Fortune 500 headquarters and startup offices poised for growth. But how do startups and large corporations actually meet
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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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Create-X Startup Launch, Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurial initiative and startup accelerator, just wrapped up its latest cohort on campus. 75 teams set up their booths last night for Demo Day, where they chatted with local investors, potential customers, and the larger Atlanta startup community. If the line wrapped around Georgia
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The right summer internship can be a springboard for ambitious college students. But it can also be an important jumping off point for students looking to get their foot into the competitive world of startups and venture capital. The startup path is anything but linear, so we wanted to understand
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Matt Patterson and Cam Doody didn’t launch Brickyard to be just another startup hub. After successfully scaling the moving logistics startup Bellhop together, the two wanted to break the accelerator and investing mold used across the startup ecosystem. Brickyard calls itself an “insulator” – a spot for founders to dive
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Daniel Waithe built his career in Atlanta’s consumer-facing tech world, holding roles like Director of Engineering at Mailchimp and VP of Engineering at fintech giant Greenlight. But now he’s striking out on his own with a startup designed to create more Black-owned ecommerce businesses success stories. Software startup
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Patrick Latting knew the event planning process was broken. He’d put together his own events for other organizations he started and experienced all the headaches that come with looking for the right vendors. He talked to many others in similar positions. So he started thinking about how technology could