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Another Sunday, another great story in the AJC related to tech and entrepreneurism. Last week the AJC's Michael Kanell wrote about Helping Tech Grow in Atlanta, and today business assignment editor Matt Kempner profiled entrepreneur Diana Harbour and her Athens-based online business that's on track to earn $ 8 million in ...
GigaOM Coming Back To Atlanta
One of the first tech events I attended in Atlanta was back in July when GigaOM came to town. Well, it looks like that first impression was a good one becasue I just got an email letting me know that they're coming back -- next week. I've cut and pasted ...
GA Tech Graduate Creates "YouTube of Code"
It’s common for an entrepreneur to compare his or her startup with an existing successful company to help create a better understanding of what the startup is all about, it’s often called a high-concept pitch. Two of my favorite examples: “Facebook for Dogs” (Dogster.com) and “Airbnb for Records” (Vnylyst.com). Venture ...
Cigital Making A Move To Atlanta
Cigital a Virginia-based software solutions company that’s now setting up an office in Atlanta announced today the completion of a $50M equity investment by LLR Partners. Cigital designs, builds and maintains secure software applications. The company’s CTO, Gary McGraw, is also in town today to talk about “why is ...
Helping Tech Grow in Atlanta
In Sunday's AJC Business section, my colleague Michael Kanell writes how Atlanta Tech Village and Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, among others, are helping local entrepreneurs grow. Kanell's report, "Looking for a Village to Raise Startup Tech Firms," expands on some of the themes discussed at last week's Collaborative Leadership ...
Email Overload. Entrepreneurs Needed
Just got in from a business trip and I'll be back to regular blogging next week. Hopefully by then I’ll have figured out how I suddenly got over 98,000 unread emails on my iPhone!!!! I know I didn’t check email a lot while I was away from the newsroom, but ...
Something For Everyone The Next Few Months
If you thought this weekend was just the start of fall; think again! The good folks at Hypepotamus say Friday kicked-off seven weeks of Mardi Gras like festivities here in Atlanta for innovators. It’s dubbed Southern Fried Supernova! During September, October and November Atlanta will host at least three dozen ...
(co)lab Summit Registration Deadline
(DISCLOSURE: Cox Media is a sponsor of (co)lab Leadership Summit Today is the last day to pre-register for the Collaborative Leadership Summit that begins Sunday. The summit, also known as (co)lab is billed as “a day-and-a-half summit, where today’s executives and tomorrow’s leaders from our business, education and civic communities ...
Noro-Moseley Partners Raise Over $46 Million
FIRST ON AJC TECH BIZ! On Monday, Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners (NMP) filed notice with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it has raised nearly $47 million dollars in a new venture fund. NMP is a prominent southeastern venture capital firm that has invested in more than 150 start-ups and ...
Top "Promising" Startups in Atlanta (One Woman's Opinion)
I found this story on The Next Web, but that blog post kept pointing to the Fueled blog, but I couldn’t find the original post there, so I’m pointing to TNW. In any case Brook Pendleton offered up specific praise to the following "promising" Atlanta startups: Scoutmob, Socialvest, We&Co, ...
Trying to Get EduTech Right
In case you missed it in Sunday's paper (or MyAJC.com ) the AJC's Daarel Burnette II delivered an insightful story on how some Georgia school kids are leading the way in using iPhones and tablets to learn. But the biggest takeaway for me from the article was debunking the "if ...
Atlanta's nCrowd Bets Online Deals Aren't Dead
Atlanta-based nCrowd, a social commerce company, announced Wednesday that it purchased the deal division of South Florida-based Saveology.com. Under the agreement, nCrowd acquired the consumer and merchant relationships from Saveology’s deal business that offered local and national coupons in 42 markets nationwide. nCrowd is the parent company of social commerce ...
It May Be Fall, But Tech in Atlanta Remains Hot!
The calendar may say fall, but things are heating up on the tech startup and social media scene in Atlanta. Friday the 13th may end up being the start of a lucky weekend for a number of mobile app developers who'll take part in the Midtown Buzz Mobile Hackathon. Hypepotamus ...
iPhone App Tips To Stay Safe
Are you ready? Take a look at the apps currently loaded on your smart phone or tablet. Can any of them save your life or the lives of your family in the event of an emergency? September is National Emergency Preparedness Month. Locally, the state's Emergency Management Agency/Homeland Security has ...
Georgia Tech taps ‘crowd funding’ to pay for research
A tip of the cap to FastCompany that first reported the story about Georgia Tech's new crowd funding project. The AJC’s Kristina Torres followed-up with our own story about the "Georgia Tech Starter" program. She wrote: “Attention geeks, what deserves your money more: honey bees equipped with tiny transmitters or ...
Gadget Gear 2013
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Triple Scoop of News for SalesFUSION
A triple scoop of news today from Atlanta-based SalesFUSION. Scoop 1: Atlanta-based marketing automation software company names Christian Nahas as its new CEO. Scoop 2: Appointed technology executive David Politis to its Board of Directors Scoop 3: The company has raised $800k in new capital from Hallet Capital; Nahas joins SalesFUSION ...
The Next David Cummings?
13-year old Maya Shea Penn started her company, Maya's Ideas when she was just 8- years-old. Compare that to David Cummings, anointed by many as Atlanta's startup mahatma, he "waited" until the 9th-grade before launching his first startup! Her company made $25,000 last year. "Maya's Ideas," combines her many interests ...
TechBridge Wins Google Grant
Good news for a do-good tech organization here in Atlanta! TechBridge, a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits make sense out technology just received a Google Community Grant of $50,000. According to a TechBridge news release: "The Google Community Grant will be used to fund a ‘Cloud Advisor’ on the TechBridge ...
Plenty of Tech Stuff To Do At Dragon Con
I don't currently have plans to attend Dragon Con this weekend, but if you’re going it looks like you’re going to a blast. And after sifting through the website I see a number of activities and events that align nicely with Atlanta's technology and startup scene. I mean, come on, ...
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