Year: 2013

  • How To Make Your Tech Staffing Vendors Successful

    How To Make Your Tech Staffing Vendors Successful

    Venture Atlanta just announced the companies presenting for 2013. Venture Atlanta companies have raised more than $1, sovaldi sale 140,000,000 in the past, and this year’s group looks to be the best group yet. After reviewing hundreds of applications, Venture Atlanta has made its final selection of 32 early-to late-stage companies to present at this…

  • Incredible group of companies chosen for 2013 Venture Atlanta

    Incredible group of companies chosen for 2013 Venture Atlanta

    Venture Atlanta just announced the companies presenting for 2013. Venture Atlanta companies have raised more than $1, sovaldi sale 140,000,000 in the past, and this year’s group looks to be the best group yet. After reviewing hundreds of applications, Venture Atlanta has made its final selection of 32 early-to late-stage companies to present at this…

  • The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    I recently attended a business lunch in which a panel of VC/PE guys were discussing some of the criteria they use when deciding to invest in a company; listening to them, geriatrician one remark really stuck out: “we pay equal attention  to the team, patient and the product”.  As the CFO of an early stage…

  • What You Need to Know About Mobile Payment Devices

    What You Need to Know About Mobile Payment Devices

    SoTech Leaders Q&A on Mobile Payment Devices with Jason Swenk of Payscape Advisors SoTech: All the tech magazines have been talking about NFC coming for a few years. For those that don’t know what it is, for sale what does NFC mean and when will we really see it adopted in the market? Jason:  NFC…

  • Does Google Images Perpetuate Piracy? You Bet!

    Does Google Images Perpetuate Piracy? You Bet!

    Imagine a world where after you found an image online you had been searching for, information pills you couldn’t right click and “Save Image As”. Hard to imagine that world isn’t it? We have all become so used to being able to just right click and use an image it has become second nature to our…

  • What will your Software Sales Career look like when Bieber is 30?

    What will your Software Sales Career look like when Bieber is 30?

    There are a couple trends in the B2B tech world today that have picked up steam: More and more companies are developing products that have a low entry price point or freemium model where customers get started in a no/low risk model and pay more as they add users & features (e.g. Zoho, Hepatitis Mailchimp)…

  • Why Do Startups Think Content is Expendable?

    Why Do Startups Think Content is Expendable?

    You got a great idea, website you got some startup funding, your patents and trademarks got squared away, you developed the product, launched it, and you’reworking out the bugs as you wait for the public to embrace it.  Now, how exactly is it they’re going to find you?  (The answer is content, but read on…

  • How Tennessee’s Southland Summit could topple SXSW

    How Tennessee’s Southland Summit could topple SXSW

    By Sarah Lacy On June 17, 2013God damnit. I hate to do this. I really, really hate to do this. But I have to hand it to Nashville. The city is suddenly doing a great job of being nationally relevant. Evidence of this seems to be popping up all around…

  • What It Feels Like To Be Eaten by a Shark

    What It Feels Like To Be Eaten by a Shark

    Who doesn’t like sharks? In honor of Shark Week 2013, prostate this is how it would look if you were attacked by a shark. Over the 4th of July  weekend, disinfection some guys in Ocean City, allergy MD attached a GoPro Hero 3 to a circular bait hook with fish and left shore at 6 and 7knots. What…

  • Mobile’s Exscien Corp. wins big with Alabama Launchpad startup competition

    Mobile’s Exscien Corp. wins big with Alabama Launchpad startup competition

    Team member Mark Gillespie tells judges in the 2013 Alabama Launchpad Start-Up Competition that biotechnology venture Exscien Corp. is “on the cutting edge of lung biology” and holds significant promise for organ transplant…