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You’ve gotten the call or you’ve raised your hand to lead a new innovation initiative. Welcome to the jungle. It’s exciting, rewarding and fraught with challenges.  Let’s set you up…

In our work helping organizations build and sustain cultures of innovation, we’ve found that people in roles not directly connected to “innovation” aren’t sure what to do when they’re asked…

Preface: Kevin Burke is the Sr. Global Brand Manager for Glaceau vitaminwater, smartwater and Aquarius at The Coca-Cola Company.  He recently completed the Startup engineering & corporate innovation track at…

Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Agile? The answer is… Some people dismiss them all, some prefer one over another, and some suggest mushing them all together into a delicious innovation…

Bad quarters can happen to the best companies and budgets cuts to innovation tend to follow. While strategically dubious, this will continue as long as short term goals are prioritized…

Events that involved both corporations and startups can be invigorating. Corporate employees can emerge out of their cubicles and hobnob with entrepreneurs who throw out startup buzzwords over craft beer.…

Silicon Valley gets a lot of shine. We get it, the Valley has star power and volume. But, corporations are spread out across the country, and may not need to…

Last week Coca-Cola hosted Lean Startup In a Day: Innovation + Entrepreneurship. The workshop was led by energetic and accomplished duo, Carie Davis (Global Director of Innovation + Entrepreneurship ,…

Twenty-six companies headquartered in metro Atlanta are among the 2018 Fortune 1000, of which 15 are also ranked in the same year’s Fortune 500. In fiscal year 2017, these 26…

25,000 people in 83 countries participated in Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle and Atlanta’s Attendalytics is one of the 12 global finalists. Attendalytics was selected for the top spot in…

From industrial design to developing an entrepreneurial training program to helping launch a corporate commercialization program for startups, the common thread throughout Carie Davis’s varied career has been helping people learn…

Carie Davis is the Global Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at The Coca-Cola Company. Her focus is making Coke a resource to startup ecosystems, fostering entrepreneurship inside the company, and leading Coca-Cola’s…

Over 25 global corporations including Coca-Cola, thyssenkrupp, Home Depot and Stanley Black & Decker tap into Atlanta’s dynamic concentration of startups, talent and entrepreneurial initiatives by standing up an off-site…

After a successful first year spent with 10 diverse startups, Coca-Cola’s BridgeCommunity Commercialization program is kicking off their recruitment push for their second cohort. This year, they’ve upped the ante…

Wanna rub elbows with corporate leaders, business owners, and civic leaders? Join them this Thursday, May 23, from 6-7:30pm here at Hypepotamus for the Midtown Alliance’s “Midtown Dialogue: The Future…

Nearly 130 years to the day after its first breakthrough beverage was sold, foreshadowing a boom into the biggest brand in the world, Coca-Cola publicly announced the 10 emerging companies…

The Coca-Cola BridgeCommunity, an Atlanta-based startup commercialization program that matches young companies with corporate partners to generate pilots and contracts, has selected its third cohort of startups. 11 companies will join…

The panel How Corporations & Startups Can Partner for Innovation, will help uncover the disconnect that prevents startups and corporations from partnering on solutions that benefit large enterprises and the entrepreneurs…

Last week, Startup Atlanta held their “How Corporations & Startups Can Partner for Innovation” panel discussion at GA Atlanta. It was a great avenue for established business and startup figures to come together…

The lines between work and play are blurring. The exponential growth of technology is creating uncertainty in almost every industry throughout the world – yet with this uncertainty opportunity is…