COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you’re being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community.…
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Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: Thad Oviatt of Parkent Cycles
by Mike Jordanby Mike JordanThe novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you’re being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member…
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Shila Nieves Burney Challenges Perceptions With The Zane Venture Fund
by Chanel Leeby Chanel LeeShila Nieves Burney has had enough of being rebuffed, although she doesn’t fear it. “I’m a lot older than the typical entrepreneur,” she quips. But righteous indignation seeps through her…
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Dr. Nammy Vedire: Yale-Taught Engineer, Visual Artist, Platform Builder, Possible Superwoman
by Mike Jordanby Mike Jordan“When you’re really being challenged, what can you bring to bear?” That’s a question Dr. Nammy Vedire, director of platform and operations at Atlanta-based VC group Engage, says she asks…
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Alumna Entrepreneur Monica Hooks Takes the Reins as WEI’s New Executive Director
by Chanel Leeby Chanel LeeAs the newly minted executive editor of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI), Monica Hooks is well aware she has a legacy to uphold. That mandate would shake anyone growing into…
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Cox Enterprises’ Cleantech Team On Green Investing, Long-Term Sustainability, and Turning Trash Into Electricity
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinIn a world where companies often ignore profit and raise more and more capital to double down on a specific vision, Cox Enterprises stands apart. The 120-year-old, family-run company has…
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Barry Givens, New Techstars Social Impact Managing Director, Is Seeking Startups For “People, Community, and Planet”
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinEarlier this summer, Cox Enterprises and global accelerator Techstars announced that they were extending their partnership to launch a second Techstars program in Atlanta, this one focused on social impact…
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Investor Real Talk: Professional Angel Charlie Paparelli On the Three Things He Looks For In Early-Stage Startups
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinInvestor Real Talk will dive into the deep end with the folks that hold the pocketbook in the startup world. We’ll get into angel funding, VC, growth equity, and even…
