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Recently, I had the awesome privilege of speaking at two Greater Women Business Council (GWBC) events and moderated the most recent StartupChicks event – both remarkable organizations and wonderful experiences. I have never been involved with “women only” events before (for obvious reasons). While my speeches focused on raising capital and business survival skills, being surrounded by such accomplished women got me thinking in general about the importance of women in entrepreneurship.
There are many statistics regarding women and entrepreneurship. Read More…
A coworking space is finally coming together in the center of Atlanta. Ignition Alley is name of the project spearheaded by local entrepreneur Tim Dorr. Two spaces are candidates for the facility, one on the southwest side of Georgia Tech (shown below) and the other off Ponce de Leon near City Hall East (shown above). An open house of both facilities is being held next Thursday, July 9th at 2:00 pm. There is a Meetup.com event for the tour and anyone may attend.
Atlanta serial entrepreneur and angel investor Mitch Free, Founder and CEO of MFG.com, was interviewed this afternoon by CNBC reporter Erin Burnett with Mark Mahaney, Internet Analyst with Citigroup Investment Research. Burnett asked Free how MFG differs from similar companies who connect buyers and sellers such as Alibaba and eBay. Free said MFG is similar to Ali Baba in that it connects buyers of industrial goods with sellers but it goes much deeper by having a transactional platform where people collaborate, exchange quotes, negotiate and put the complete deal together. Read More…
Ricky Steele, a leader in Atlanta’s technology community and one who has literally written the book on networking, speaks here on behalf of Hunter Technical Resources, an IT staffing firm with workforce solutions ranging from contract to permanent placement. He joined the firm on May 1 as Chief Development Officer, with responsibilities for sales, marketing, PR, and community involvement. Count on the fact that Read More…
We are proud to recognize Slingshot Product Development Group of Lawrenceville, GA as one of our sponsors and to hear President/CEO Sam Zaidspiner in the video above describe his mission and process. Founded in 2001, Slingshot PDG aims to help its clients grow revenues and profits through innovation, and its list of successes in that respect is quite lengthy.
Slingshot’s expertise balances innovation with implementation and runs the gamut from research, design, engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, to product launch. Read More…
I recently met with Dan Lack, the founder of Pushing Beyond, a new initiative that is dedicated to helping professionals and students hone in on their passions and learn what it takes to make the jump towards achieving their dreams. They will be having their launch event on Wednesday, July 1 in the LeCraw Auditorium in the Georgia Tech College of Management building and will also be starting an interview series soon after.
This event will feature a panel of Garrett Gravesen, CEO of Global L.E.A.D., Haley Kilpatrick, Founder & Executive Director of Girl Talk and Aaron Arnold, CEO of Music Is My Business. Dan says that this is the event to be if you have ever said, “I wish I could quit my job and become a …”
The launch event will be on July 1, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Tickets are priced between $10 - $30 and admission is free for Georgia Tech students.
Konstantin Othmer, CEO of Core Mobility and member of Seraph Group, is one of the most brilliant people I have ever met. Our interview ended only because the camera was full, and Kon had a company to run. We could have listened to him talk for 12 hours. In the person of Konstantin, I found the prototypical Valley entrepreneur, a person whose unbridled brilliance led him from professional poker to Apple Computer to General Motors to venture investing in Japan to the helm of Core Mobility. Konstantin spoke about the Valley spirit, hard work and the culture of a good startup.
In an economic setting where the near disappearance of liquidity has been particularly damaging to small and medium businesses, FTRANS has created an innovative solution that makes bank financing more available for B2B trade credit transactions. As CEO Dan Drechsel explains above, the company’s goal is to improve access to capital in this segment.
Bank’s small to medium commercial clients can use FTRANS’ web based (SaaS) solution to outsource their accounts receivable and credit administration functions. Read More…
Former ATDC Entrepreneur-in-Residence and current Mayor of the City of Avondale Estates, Ed Rieker is an experienced and successful entrepreneur who has quietly opened a co-working and incubation space at 151 Locust in his city just east of Atlanta. He is currently previewing it to small groups and adding the final touches in what he describes as “beta testing.”
The use of mobile video is projected to grow five-fold by 2014 and yet most of that growth appears to be in Asia and Europe where the adoption rate of all kinds of mobile applications, but especially mobile video, is much higher than the U.S. Why? That and other questions were addressed by the two speakers and panelists at the Wireless Technology Forum’s IPTV Special Interest Group on June 4, 2009.
Ron Kozoman, Director of Wireless Operations at Turner Broadcasting said that Turner sees a growing demand for mobile applications that include video. Read More…
Recently, I had the awesome privilege of speaking at two 
A coworking space is finally coming together in the center of Atlanta. 
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