There’s been a lot of buzz in the startup world recently about the advantages of — wait for it — not raising venture capital dollars. With bootstrapped successes like MailChimp and LeaseQuery providing a model for ambitious founders to aspire to, more startups are joining a movement encouraging them to build their company without giving anything […]
Technology companies, ad agencies, and marketers are constantly thinking about how to capture the attention and the dollars of the new generation. A few years ago, all the talk centered around millennials, who are now old news with the onslaught of Gen Z. But what about the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population? The latest […]
On December 2017, one of the biggest tax overhauls in more than three decades, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was signed into law. As official filing starts next week, startups and small businesses will start to see some important changes as they prepare their documentation. Senior tax accountant Brannon Montgomery and managing partner Brad Ebenhoeh from startup-focused accounting firm Accountfully share […]
This is part of our How We Work series, which focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. When you walk around the headquarters of fintech company Kabbage, you see a lot of open doors. You see a lot of vegetable puns — their internal newsletter is “The Beet” and interns are “Brussel […]
Recent research has shown that those who live in Southern states tend to experience higher income inequality, especially among minority communities. The 2018 map of economics growth shows that more than 50 million Americans live in a distressed community (shown in red in the above image). To attract more investment to those underperforming areas and […]