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Nashville’s Fisk University has politician John Lewis and civil rights activists W.E.B. Du Bois on its list of notable alumni. But with a new Innovation Center coming to campus, the university could soon be a hub for the next generation of Nashville entrepreneurs. The Darrell S. Freeman
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AI, tech layoffs, the Great Resignation, and affirmative action aren’t just newspaper headlines that get attention across startup and business communities. They all ultimately boil down to be HR problems. HR and people leaders are poised with questions like: Why are women leaving our organization at higher rates than
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Tye Hayes knows a thing or two about managing professional crises. After her time in the Navy, Hayes spent the early part of her career at Lockheed Martin as the head of the Information Security Compliance and Governance group. After becoming a mom, the College Park native and Georgia State
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Long before launching the digital health startup Equal Health a year and a half ago, Avantika (Avi) Varma, MD, MPH was passionate about building more equitable spaces within healthcare. The roots of Varma’s first startup actually date back to her time volunteering at orphanages and hospitals near New Delhi
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Even before Michael Davis officially joining the team at Homegrown, the early-stage startup was keeping him up at night. “You know when it’s three in the morning and you can't stop thinking about an idea? And then you wake up at six a.m. and you are
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TTV Capital, an Atlanta-based fintech venture capital firm, has tapped a veteran in the payments space as a new Venture Partner. Paul Todd most recently served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at transaction processing giant Global Payments, a Fortune 500 company based in Atlanta. After working
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Erin Mulligan Nelson, who recently took over the top seat at Atlanta-based OfficeSpace Software, is no stranger to the CEO position. Before joining the workplace management software firm, Mulligan Nelson served as the top executive at Calytera, Bonterra, and private equity-backed Social Solutions. Like other CEOs leading technology companies, Mulligan
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3 months. That’s how much time Atlanta entrepreneur Wilkinson Egwu is working to save real estate investors over the course of the 1031 exchange process. A 1031 exchange is a tool well known to property investors, as it allows those purchasing like-kind properties to defer taxes on capital gains
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The healthcare landscape has changed dramatically since the US first designated May as Mental Health Awareness Month back in the 1940s. At the time, the goal was to drive general awareness of mental wellness and celebrate recovery from mental illness. “Now, it’s much less stigmatized to talk about mental
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A few weeks ago, Gimme co-founder Cory Hewett announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of the vending startup to pursue new entrepreneurial interests. Co-founder Evan Jarecki will be stepping up as the chief executive. Gimme is a startup that has been featured several times over the years
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UGA mechanical engineering student Alex Breazu already has an impressive resume filled with internships and job at places like NCR, Nintendo, and the FAA. There is one job you won’t see on LinkedIn: proud “plant parent.” Yet it is that job that helped launch his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Plantfi.
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Founder Marie Bigham might be new to the B2B SaaS space, but she says her 23 years of experience in college admissions has prepared her well to go out and pitch Accelerated Equity Insights. “Whether you're at a college fair standing behind a table and you've