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The Secret Sauce Of Start-Up Success

YoungUpstarts

Build a business model that scales. Your business model should be scalable and have the capacity to grow beyond the audience sweet spot you identified early on in this process. As you build your business model, dig deep to find the “what ifs.”

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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. You work with (and know) a lot of startups.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

LexSet’s primary office is in the Brooklyn Navy Yard at the NewLab , an amazing startup ecosystem that provides lots of opportunities for pilots and collaborations. What has the startup experience taught you about life? The Atlanta Braves What do you do when you are low on energy? Which living person do you most admire and why?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 17: Tiffani Bell and Clay Hebert

Steve Blank

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta.

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Are Incubators Really Necessary for Startup Success?

ReadWriteStart

Twice a year, every tech website seems to devote lavish coverage to just what startups made it into Y Combinator ’s latest class. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S. for startups that isn’t San Francisco or New York), Cove.tool has buildings in Canada, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia, as well as across America. Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S. Autonomous driving. Persistence.

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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. University of NC, et al.