Category: Venture Capital

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why Now is a Good Time to Start a New Company

    Why Now is a Good Time to Start a New Company

    Have you been thinking of starting a new venture? Now may be the best time to start. If you hold out for better market conditions, thumb you may be bypassing a great opportunity. There are definitely areas of overall market risk to keep an eye on – the slowly recovering national economy and a pull-back…

  • Sideqik and Insightpool are growing Atlanta’s digital marketing hub

    Sideqik and Insightpool are growing Atlanta’s digital marketing hub

    Atlanta has long been known as a hub for information security, search financial and health care technology, but what’s next? AirWatch raising $200 million to help enterprises manage mobile devices is only part of the story of what’s coming in the next wave. Atlanta has become a powerhouse  hub of digital marketing technology with three big exits…

  • Ready to Pitch ? Be sure you can Nail these four topics…

    Ready to Pitch ? Be sure you can Nail these four topics…

    In today’s frenetic startup environment, medications any new company has countless things to consider every day: product development, therapy recruiting the right team, defining your place in the market, locating financial backers, convincing customers to give your idea a shot….the list goes on. However, it will be extremely difficult for you to succeed in any…

  • Dissecting The Facebook IPO (Infographic)

    “In a world that’s changing so quickly, resuscitation you’re guaranteed to fail if you don’t take any risks.” Mark Zuckerberg As Facebook goes public, who will actually own the social networking giant after the IPO, what’s really happening with revenues, and more? To help you understand and dissect Facebook before IPO, here’s an interesting infographic…

  • Vendormate Lands Growth Investment

    Vendormate, shop Inc. (“Vendormate”), online the leading hospital supply chain and credentialing solution, today announced a significant investment from Primus Capital (“Primus”). This investment demonstrates the company’s commitment to growth and desire to win the vendor credentialing and compliance monitoring space in healthcare and across additional verticals. Vendormate’s flagship product, Vendormate VISIONTM, is used daily…

  • Startup Insider Tips From Expert Entrepreneurs

    How do you pitch an investor? What has running a company taught you? What are some rookie mistakes? What advice would you give an entrepreneur? Mashable asked these questions to the CEOs of Learnvest, here Roadify, illness Hunch, and HowAboutWe, along with angel investor David B. Lerner and seed-stage venture capitalist Brett Martin. What advice…

  • Fast Company Announces Atlanta As The Next Technology Hub

    It used to be, rx if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options… Not too long ago, about fifty years, Atlanta was the size of Little Rock, Ark. About a hundred years before that, it was burned…