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How We Grew Our Fashion Accessories Business To Over A Million Dollars In Sales

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My immediate goal was to have a showroom in every market in the US – Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was during the New York shows that I met our first showroom who was based in Atlanta. In reality, we never actually left our Atlanta showroom as we were always very pleased with their performance.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

It’s worth noting that LexSet’s team is distributed with additional team members in Seattle and myself in Los Angeles, giving us great range to take sales meetings all across the country. The Atlanta Braves What do you do when you are low on energy? The artist formerly known as Prince What’s the best advice you’ve ever gotten?—?or

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5 questions for an Atlanta Tech Village CEO: Jon Birdsong, Rivalry

Jeff Hilimire

If you had time to watch the video where Jon Birdsong (CEO of Rivalry ) and I talked to Michael Tavani, Rob Kischuk and TJ Muehleman, you’ll know that one of the points the group made to Jon and I was that there is a lot of publicity about the Atlanta Tech Village but very little about the startups in the building. Longer answer.

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5 Ways To Run A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

You will need solid knowledge on new products available as the last thing you want to do is sell and distribute items that are decreasing in popularity. Make sure that you visit this Atlanta video production company for an example of a team who specializes in making professional videos. Knowing Your Competition.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service. E.g., a Community Manager at a VC could check once a week where portfolio execs are visiting, perhaps using Tripit , and then ping them saying, “I see you’re in Atlanta; would you like to meet Nancy?” CB Insights’ Ava is a version of this.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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

Steve Blank

Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. It ultimately failed because she was focused on engineering the product, but didn’t validate the rest of her business model (product/market fit, distribution channel, customer acquisition, etc.).

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