by cody | Oct 24, 2014 | Funding, Tech News
Earlier this week, Atlanta entrepreneurs and investors gathered for The Ignition Project 2014. The goal of The Ignition Project is to connect promising entrepreneurs and angel investors to ignite early-stage success. This year, eight entrepreneurs presented ideas to a...
by cody | Oct 17, 2014 | Funding, Start-Up Talk, Startup Movement, Tech News
Atlanta has become the South’s heart of innovation, as evidenced by our previous blog post, Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Start a Business in Atlanta Today. Startups, influencers and capitalists alike are thriving in Atlanta’s exciting corporate environment, and...
by cody | Aug 29, 2014 | Funding
Money is the lifeblood of any type of business and if you don’t have piles and piles of your own, there will come a time where you begin the hunt for capital. This is where investors come in. A venture capitalist typically involves corporate entities that use funds...
by cody | Apr 25, 2014 | Funding, Startup Movement
Silicon Valley (especially Yahoo!) is paying some serious attention to local entrepreneurs. A few weeks ago, we shared Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s interest in acquiring Atlanta startup News Distribution Network, Inc. Now, Maynard Webb, Chairman of Yahoo! is investing...
by cody | Apr 21, 2014 | Funding, New Technologies, Startup Movement, Tech News
With venture capital investments growing at a faster right than ever before, it’s not a bad time to be a startup. According to the MoneyTree report released last week, investors dished out double the amount to startups this past quarter than they did during the...
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...