Meet MailChimp – a bootstrapper’s Cinderella story. On September 1st, 2009 the Atlanta-based email marketing company announced that they were adopting the freemium model. A year later they had grown their user base five…
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Most hackathons are a blip on the radar. Hackers come, new ideas are chased, beer is drunk, and at the end of a 72 hour building binge everyone goes back to…
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Remember when Silly Bandz were how you knew who was trendy and who wasn’t? Thank goodness we’ve evolved. Evolved to what, you ask? Wearable and fashion-forward tech, obviously. Come join…
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Since August of 2013 I’ve felt like the luckiest person alive. I spend my days meeting Atlanta’s brightest and sharing their story, I’m in a position to make life changing connections…
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The Hypepotamus top 10 – a mix of popular and impactful pieces from the 1,558 stories we’ve told so far. This will give you an idea of how much our audience and…
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Anyone who has spent any time in the Atlanta tech scene knows that Erin Rosintoski is an angel among us. Being a community leader in the startup world isn’t an easy…
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An Atlanta developer has made it possible to run your entire Gmail contact list against the email addresses included in the Ashley Madison hack. Before this tool was created, you could only…
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Originally built in 1897, the Flatiron Building is Atlanta’s oldest skyscraper. The iconic downtown building is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and contrary to popular belief,…
