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Craving A Weekend Getaway? Check Out This Home Exchange Club That Just Launched In The Southeast.

Craving A Weekend Getaway? Check Out This Home Exchange Club That Just Launched In The Southeast.

Ifrah Khan has a knack for building marketplace startups. She founded her first one, an on-demand babysitting mobile app called Usit, while she was still a student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Over three years, Atlanta college students earned over a million dollars through babysitting and thousands of

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Women Who Codes Shuts Down, But Atlanta Members Look To Carry On Legacy

Women Who Code (WWC), an international tech community headquartered in Atlanta, announced late last week that it was abruptly shutting down operations. The organization was started by a group of engineers in San Francisco in 2011 with the expressed goal of bringing more women into the tech community. After cementing

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Get To Know The CEO Helping People Land Their Dream Music Industry "Giggs"

Breaking into the music and entertainment industry can often come down to ‘who you know’ instead of ‘what you know.’ That was a reality Nikki Sanz saw first-hand as she built up her career as a production assistant and tour manager across Nashville’s music and live events scene. “Traditionally,

Woodstock Recognized as International Smart City Leader at Taiwan Conference

Woodstock Recognized as International Smart City Leader at Taiwan Conference

Editor’s note: Global Atlanta’s Michal Jensby traveled to Taipei with the delegation to contribute the bulk of the reporting for this article. 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

Friday "Fund" Day: What Southeast Startups Did The Week Of April 15

Friday "Fund" Day: What Southeast Startups Did The Week Of April 15

Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought some big acquisition news and its fair share of early-stage funding headlines. To round out your Friday, we’ve curated the biggest innovation news from across the region to make sure you are up-to-date with all the latest.

Hannibal AI is using an ancient philosophy for AI innovation

Hannibal AI is using an ancient philosophy for AI innovation

Atlanta based tech startup Hannibal AI aims to solve complex business problems for clients with strategic development and use of AI — but with a unique guiding philosophy. Created by co-founders Paul Wallace (CEO) and Levi Perkins (CTO), alongside Georgii Speakman (Senior Partner), Hannibal AI’s vision is guided by the

Offices are out. But Switchyards is planning a major "work club" expansion...with 200 new locations across the country

Offices are out. But Switchyards is planning a major "work club" expansion...with 200 new locations across the country

At the start of 2024, commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield put the Atlanta office vacancy rate at a record 24.6%. That rate is similar over in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Tampa. But it isn’t just Southeastern office spaces that are struggling. Across the US, office-using employment is