ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. His first piece for ReadWriteWeb - Social Revolution: Crowdsourcing for Change - addressed the idea of using crowdsourcing techniques to collect ideas for a “Business Plan for U.S.A.”.

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Venture Capital San Francisco Deal Flow Atlanta 127

Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I read way too many business plans with overly optimistic projections. I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Next it launched in cities including Atlanta, Denver, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix and Seattle.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 15, 2014

It doesn’t matter how great your idea is, how amazing your business plan is, how vast your network is, or how bright your smile is…if you don’t give yourself enough runway to build your business then your chances of success are minimal. Building a business is hard stuff.

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Atlanta Acquisition Mobile Revenue 51

Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Will share this with them as they continue to work on their business plans pitches and question and answer with judges. Last week I was talking to an entrepreneur at Venture Atlanta and I asked the casual question “What does your startup do?”

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Elevator Pitch Atlanta Entrepreneur Startup 39

Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’m speaking today at entrepreneur.com’s Growth Conference in Atlanta , a talk I’m calling 3 Weeks to Startup after the book that I co-authored (disclosure: I’m the half author).

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Startup Atlanta Cofounder Stock 98

Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Steve Belkin , owner of the Atlanta Hawks, couldn't get his first deal financed and wound up cobbling together a friends and family round to start his travel company in the 70s. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Regard advice givers the same way you do surgeons - or pilots.

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Wisconsin Atlanta Entrepreneur Angel Investor 60

Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Civic Accelerator – Atlanta, Georgia: Just announced this year, the Points of Light Insitute’s Civic Incubator program is expanding to launch one of the first accelerators focused on social entrepreneurs. Do you like the mountains and being connected to a global roster of mentors? Check this program out.

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Georgia Massachusetts Non-Compete Incubator 45

Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

The first was with Raymond King , CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe , CEO of Insightpool; and the third with Mark Feinberg , CEO of Uruut. I’ve known Simms Jenkins (CEO of BrightWave Marketing ) for a long time and I’ve always been impressed with how he’s built his business.

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Marketing Leadership Email Exit Strategy 65

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. If the company sells or raises enough capital, the investment converts into an agreed-upon percentage of equity.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Update your disaster plan. From New York and New England to Atlanta, Mother Nature has thrown more than a few punches our way so far this year, which has been a constant reminder that small businesses should always be prepared for the next storm.

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Small Business New York City New York Small Business Administration 190

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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Las Vegas Technical Review Security New York 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2011

Those who understand what skills and traits make them special, who then develop a purposeful business plan and know how to remove the barriers that stand in their way – even a barrier as big as a recession – will and do succeed.

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Georgia Atlanta Community Entrepreneur 231

www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Instead of going to venture capitalists with a business plan and trying to convince them to fund it, you can get a product launched on a few tens of thousands of dollars of seed money from us or your uncle, and approach them with a working company instead of a plan for one. Atlanta is just as hosed as Munich.

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Web Startup Silicon Valley Technical Review 54

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

The original business plan was to harvest tumors, collect genomic tests on them, use a smart database system to match their disease profiles and all annotated data against known trials and therapies, and return the results to the treatment team at the bedside.

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Georgia Startup Incubator Harvest 48