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Opportunity Hub Partners with Capital Factory To Bridge Opportunity Gap

Austin Startup

Pre-swag surf group photo of HBCU@SXSW students and Spike Lee at Capital One House Over the past several years, tech communities across the United States have attempted to make significant progress towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their industries. Placement is 90%!

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

I must take a moment to acknowledge the many kind greetings upon my return to Atlanta and the many well wishes as I departed Austin. Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. But, credit is due to all these CEO’s for perseverance.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

16:24] What type of networking have you found the community responds to? [18:16] We've been this blend of community and a technology platform and we'd often get bucketed very much into one or the other. Carolyn Rodz (06:16): You know, I would say at our core, we're community, A community above all else. We never have.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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There Is Only ONE Silicon Valley

Gust

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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Does America Care Anymore? How We Can Change The Answer To “Yes”.

YoungUpstarts

What do we want our partners and clients to say about us? For example, Mike Smith, the Atlanta Falcons’ head coach, visits his players in the treatment room when they are injured instead of ignoring them. To create your vision, ask yourself powerful questions like: What does this company look like when it’s at its strongest and best?

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48in48 in pictures

Jeff Hilimire

My 48in48 co-founder and partner, Adam Walker , showed up early with everything from paper towels, swag from sponsors, and a printer. The great Atlanta Falcon, Warrick Dunn , came and inspired our volunteers with his amazing story and commitment to giving back to his community. We built 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours!

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