by cody | Jul 22, 2014 | Around The South, Startup Movement
A couple weeks ago, serial entrepreneurs Jim Garrett and Ed Trimble sat down with Start-Opia Radio. Well known among the startup community as successful “exit men,” Garrett and Trimble know how to play their cards right and when to capitalize on a good idea. But with...
by cody | Apr 7, 2014 | Around The South, Funding, Startup Movement
Notorious for making Yahoo “cool” again, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been on a buying spree since she joined the company in July 2012. Over the past two years, she has acquired about two dozen startups and, with Yahoo making a comeback at a breakneck pace, she has no...
by cody | Mar 21, 2014 | Around The South, Innovation, Startup Movement
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.” This is the advice that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt offered Sheryl Sandberg when she was first offered a job at Google that she was hesitant to accept. As...
by cody | Mar 4, 2014 | Around The South, Startup Movement
Pictured above: Mayor Reed snapped this picture of Google’s campus and shared it with his Twitter followers. Last week, Mayor Kasim Reed and Invest Atlanta led a delegation of Atlanta tech leaders and entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. During the three-day trip...
by cody | Oct 1, 2013 | Around The South
This week I traveled to San Jose with a client for ACI-NA 2013 – a conference for the airport and aviation industry. I was certain that it would give me excellent content for my blog post, and it did. There are so many innovative and new technologies...
by cody | Jul 17, 2013 | Around The South, Startup Movement
There has been a lot of buzz recently on new rulings from the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) that change how entrepreneurs raise capital. Unfortunately these rules will negatively impact how investments are made and could reduce equity funding of startups in...