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5 Questions for a CEO: Jacqui Chew, iFusion Marketing

Jeff Hilimire

The list so far: Raymond King , Zoo Atlanta. I’ve known Jacqui Chew for a long time and she’s easily one of the most dynamic people killing it in Atlanta today. She’s the CEO of iFusion Marketing and is a neighbor of mine in the Atlanta Tech Village. Devon Wijesinghe , Insightpool. Mark Feinberg , Uruut.

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American Enterprise is In Danger from Recent Court Ruling

VC Adventure

A few weeks ago, the American Alliance for Equal Rights won a legal victory in Atlanta when the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked a small venture capital fund, Fearless Fund, from running a grant contest that awards $20,000 grants to small businesses led by women of color.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Intuit Future of Small Business Resources. Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. Business Models. government policy. Posted by: |.

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Howard Charney on Cisco, Growth, and Cloud Computing

Austin Startup

Five years ago, almost no one was talking about cloud – but today it is increasingly strategic for a broad range of industries, for academia, for governments. The “Cloud” is a fairly disruptive model and it will take people time to understand how best to adapt to it and benefit from it. billion business.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. I don't really have to use my phone during the day.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. Whether Millennials, our largest generation at 80 million strong, can harness their enthusiasm into viable businesses models remains to be seen.

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Whether a last minute (booking even with less than an hours notice), a travel sitter or an extra hand on vacation our clients know what we will do whatever is needed to get the job done, even literally start a business. So I turned the business model upside down. Thanks to Rachel Charlupski, The Babysitting Company !