Category: Atlanta
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10 Southern Innovation Stories You May Have Missed This Summer
Maybe you’ve been on a mission to make headlines of your own and haven’t had the time (or energy) to check Twitter for summer’s newsworthy happenings. Or maybe you’ve been off the grid fishing, swimming, or sipping margaritas since May. Whatever your reason, we know it can be hard to keep up with who’s who…
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Get schooled with these 11 Southern education startups
Ah, back to school season. For some, late August conjures happy memories of new outfits, organized pencil pouches, and fresh composition notebooks ready to be filled with doodles. For others (we’re guessing you’re a college senior, a tired parent or teacher, or a school administrator…), perhaps this time of year fills you with some looming…
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Raise a glass for these 16 Southern booze businesses
Last week’s DIG 500 gave you Southern-made cold brew, juices, and craft soda, and this week we’re back, barware in hand, with a roundup of Southerners in the business of booze. This is the land of mint juleps and moonshine, after all. And just like a good mullet, alcohol startups know how to mix business…
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11 Southern Beverage Startups to Quench Your Thirst
School calendars might dictate that summer is coming to an end, but the weather has us thinking it’s still in full-force here in the South. With heat and humidity that lingers six months out of the year, it’s no wonder Southern cities have birthed refreshing favorites like sweet tea, Coca-Cola, and Cheerwine*. But as soda…
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12 must-see makerspaces for Southern creators
If you’re not familiar with the maker movement, we think AdWeek sums it up well: “The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers. Makers tap into an American admiration for self-reliance and combine that with open-source learning, contemporary design and powerful personal technology like 3-D printers.” The…
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: 10 Mobile Gaming Startups in the South
Photo credit: iMore If words like “Lure Modules,” “Stardust,” and “Bulbasaur” come up in regular conversation, either your friends are dehydrated, or you know firsthand the rapid and widespread rise of Pokemon Go. According to Apple, the game had more downloads in its first week than any other app in history. And while it might…
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14 Unique Workplaces for Digital Nomads in the South
More and more people are ditching the traditional office environment to work remotely or launch businesses on their own. If you subscribe to the digital nomad lifestyle, you could certainly work from home or join one of the many co-working spaces popping up around the country, but what happens when your mailman (or cat) gets…
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10 Southern Startups Helping Parents Make This the Best Summer Yet
It’s officially summer, and while kids rejoice to the raucous chants of Alice Cooper, parents are feeling the heat as they balance normal adult life with three months’ worth of unoccupied youngsters. Thanks to some innovative Southerners, though, there is hope! These 10 startups have new and easy ways to keep your kids entertained, educated,…
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Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South
If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook this week, you probably caught some clips of this week’s United#StateOfWomen Summit. The daylong event celebrated what’s already been done by and for women, and took a collective pulse check on our unfinished business. Not surprisingly, one of the key gender equality issues discussed was entrepreneurship and innovation.…
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11 Southern Startups That Will Save Your Summer Travel
When you think of the travel industry, words like “convenience,” “speed,” and “transparency” probably aren’t the first that come to mind. Perhaps your memory wanders to a TSA agent testing your emotional stability, a thrilling day spent in a rental car lobby, or forking out extra dough for service fees and taxes you didn’t even…
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Bet Your Bottom Dollar on These Nine Southern FinTech Startups
We live in a world where techie turns of phrase like “You can Venmo me” and “I get paid in Bitcoin” are becoming more colloquial by the minute, and where the folks who work in finance aren’t just suit-wearing bankers or Wall Street execs; they’re hoodie-cloaked entrepreneurs giving the industry a run for its money.…
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Top 10 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Choose ATL
This week is Atlanta Startup Week – a five-day celebration of our community’s unique entrepreneurial ecosystem. It’s proof that those of us living in Atlanta recognize the excitement and innovation that is going on in our city. It also reinforces that now is the time to showcase Atlanta to the world. Over 1000 startups already…
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Get to Know Brooks Buffington
Yik Yak co-founder discusses Southeast tech scene, future of anonymous messaging app In the Southeast’s technology scene, Yik Yak is something of a rarity. The anonymous messaging app has become a household name. It shot up the charts, stirred up national controversy and raised serious money from big-name Silicon Valley investors. And in a region…
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Get March Madness Ready with these 10 Sports Startups
NCAA March Madness kicks off this week, which means millions of Americans are feverishly filling out their brackets, searching for this year’s best “Boss Button,” and deciding whether to love or loathe Kansas and Duke. And since the college basketball hype has us Springing Forward with sports top of mind, we found 10 Southern startups…
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Ready, Set, Action: 8 Southern Startups Breaking into the Film Industry
Sunday’s Oscar excitement has us talking about all things film! And while we’d love to binge watch all of Leo’s movies and replay any speech Alejandro González Iñárritu has ever given, Hollywood’s biggest night actually made us curious about the industry behind the scenes and beyond the Hills. In this week’s DIG 500, we discovered…
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9 Southern Startups to make your Thanksgiving easier
We all know that Thanksgiving should be a time to slow down and join our family and friends in gratitude, but more often than not, the holiday feels stressful. We cram in a couple of rushed workdays and move straight into organizing, planning, traveling, cooking, and veering away from our normal routines. To save…
