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Road to Hire to Bring Paid Tech Training and Job Access to Under-Resourced Young Adults (18–25) in…

Austin Startup

Vanessa Baker, an August 2020 Road to Hire graduate, who is now a successful software engineer at Bank of America in Charlotte, said, “The power of Road to Hire to invest in and build the next generation of tech professionals cannot be quantified. with full benefits and an average starting salary of $55,000 or more. Learn more and apply now

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20 years ago Raj and I started a little company together in our dorm room…

Jeff Hilimire

Fast-forward a few years later and I followed her to Charlotte, her attending Davidson College and me at UNC-Charlotte. In our final year of school we decided to start a website development company, which we named NBN Designs (Nothing But Net), for no other reason than UNC-Charlotte had a great basketball team at the time.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

Right now, we run programs here in Atlanta (where we started the company) as well as in Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville, NC. On October 20th, we will be launching our fifth 8-week Code Immersion Program for adults here in the Atlanta area as well as a new Intro to Website Design & Creation Class. We already have!

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I answered 9 successful CEO’s favorite interview questions

Jeff Hilimire

In late 2012 when I was midway through my year with Leadership Atlanta. Jenny Ming, CEO of Charlotte Russe. Tell me about the time you realized you had the power to do something meaningful. Simon Anderson, CEO of DreamHost. I realized that I had the power to do something meaningful, yet I hadn’t yet exercised that power.

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Carvana Launches into Austin and San Antonio

SiliconHills

Nationwide, it’s in eight markets including Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and Nashville. Carvana, a startup that lets people buy used cars online for next day delivery, launched this month in Austin and San Antonio. Carvana is also in Houston and Dallas.

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12 Tips To Leading Your Best Life (3/12)

Jeff Hilimire

you can check out this story on Shout Atlanta. We then moved “the business” into my mother’s basement in Atlanta and tricked blackmailed convinced Danny Davis to join us. Raj canceled the rest of his trip and moved to Atlanta. Tip #3 to living your best life: Be all in on your dreams. Now to the matter at hand.

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A close call that we avoided thanks to our advisory board.

Jeff Hilimire

We had been talking for months about expanding into either Charlotte or South Florida. The reasons: - There is still plenty of business to be had in Atlanta. They were right, we tripled over the next two years by simply focusing on Atlanta). - It was 2005 and we were 25 people, up from half that the year before.