Greg Foreman spent 20 years in the telecom industry, most recently at Verizon where he managed a large team of engineers monitoring network performance. Despite the fact that he was quite skilled in the sales side of the business, he kept getting pulled back to his college days of engineering. He enrolled in DigitalCrafts Full-Stack Immersive program this […]
“For me, it felt like I always had all of the puzzle pieces, they just weren’t put together. One thing I want to prove is that, if you just look at a snapshot of the top 20 [startup cities], we could be an ecosystem that embraces diversity and inclusion and culture, and that could be […]
Since startup accelerator Techstars entered the Atlanta ecosystem three years ago, the local tech ecosystem has seen both direct and indirect impact. The quantifiable outcomes have already proven impressive: Techstars Atlanta alumni companies have collectively raised over $30 million and created over 50 new jobs. Of those alumni, 13 startups that were founded outside of […]
This year’s recent Women’s Entrepreneurship Day was celebrated in 144 countries, 65 universities/colleges around the world, and at the United Nations. From reading the supportive Twitter messages and inspiring speeches, one might very well think that the oft-talked about gender gap in entrepreneurship has finally closed. But then, we took a closer look at the latest […]
The ability to crunch and analyze trillions of points of data has transformed so many consumer-facing industries: retail, fitness, even groceries. So why, Cathy Huyghe wondered, had it not impacted an industry she (and many of us) loved dearly: wine? “There were all these apps, all these websites, all these really powerful platforms where consumers […]