Category: Charleston
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Revamping the Travel Experience Using Recommendations: Q&A with Landon Sanford, CEO, Rayka
Along his journeys, traveling enthusiast Landon Sanford often found standard review platforms uninspired, inaccurate or worse. To solve the problem he founded Rayka, a travel app that utilizes personal recommendations rather than anonymous online reviews to enhance travel experiences. Sanford founded Rayka following graduation from Vanderbilt in 2017. He has since expanded the team to…
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Partnership, Growth and the Future of Mobility: Q&A with Gotcha Founder Sean Flood
If you ever have the chance to chat with Sean Flood, you’ll quickly understand why his company is so successful. His passion is palpable; his energy is contagious; his hustle is impressive. Sean is the CEO and Founder of Gotcha, an electric Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) company headquartered in Charleston. In an industry that’s getting increasingly crowded,…
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The Future of Fintech has Arrived in Charlotte with Fintech Generations
Show you the money?! Indeed they will. Today marks the opening of Fintech Generations, one of the nation’s largest fintech conferences taking place in Charlotte, NC, June 11-13. Fintech Generations is supported by DIG SOUTH Tech Summit sponsor, ETC member and all-around, good friend Dan Roselli, the co-founder and Managing Director of Queen City Fintech,…
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Top Trends in Cybersecurity: Q&A with Brad Alexander, VP & CTO at Immedion
Perhaps you read about cybersecurity in the news, use two-factor authentication, and store your logins on a password manager app. But as the technology landscape changes at warp speed, do you really know the ins and outs of today’s digital security threats? During this week’s DIG SOUTH Tech Summit, you’ll have the chance to learn…
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The State of M&A in the South: Q&A with J.D. Moriarty, CFO at LendingTree
It’s not often that you get to meet a C-Suite exec from one of the largest financial technology companies in the nation, but this week, attendees at the DIG SOUTH Tech Summit will have that one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. J.D. Moriarty is the CFO at Lending Tree, one of the first and largest online lending platforms. In…
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How to Power Up Your Business with AI: Q&A with botkeeper Founder Enrico Palmerino
Worried that bots are taking our jobs? Enrico Palmerino says you’ve got nothing to fear. An entrepreneur and investor with an impressive background in automation, machine learning, and accounting, he argues that bots are creating new opportunities for human talent and paving the way to make businesses more scalable and profitable. While in college, Enrico…
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Is Your Company Evolving Its Digital Business Model Or Headed For Extinction?
One thing that’s clear in today’s marketplace: Consumers want fast, user-friendly, convenient and customized service–and if your company isn’t offering it, they’ll go somewhere else to find it, fast. According to IDG’s 2018 State of Digital Business Transformation, 89 percent of organizations plan to adopt a digital-first business strategy to enhance customer experience and drive revenue, but…
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Still Not the Person You Always Wanted to Be? Three Steps to Get You There in 2019.
Improving your life starts with changing your focus, priorities and execution. We all aspire to be better people, yet too many of us hesitate to roll up our sleeves and tackle the roadblocks that prevent us from achieving that goal. We stay in our comfort zones, fall back on old habits and question why our life isn’t improving.…
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Purpose-Driven PR with Elke Martin of The Brandware Group
What’s your story? Q&A series, part 2 Elke Martin is not your average agency exec. She’s given away pink Vespa scooters, hosted gourmet dinners prepared by an award-winning chef and a Porsche race car driver, and put journalists “behind-the-wheel” of a high-tech racing simulator in Los Angeles. Since launching The Brandware Group, an Atlanta-based boutique…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: How StoragePug is Disrupting the Undisrupted
Matt Huddleston, Tommy Nguyen and Richard Jeffords of StoragePug join host Joel Sadler at DIG on the 1/2 Shell to share how they’re bringing tech to the self storage market. Each team member explains their role (and how each piece fits together to form the perfect whole that keeps things running!), attending trade shows to…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: Double Growth in Half the Time for Tech Teams with Carrie Jaquith of Lazard
From the Main Stage at DIG on the 1/2 Shell, Carrie Jaquith, VP, Digital Product Manager, Emerging Technology, Data & Analytics for Lazard shares how entrepreneurs and tech teams can double their growth in half the time by asking more questions and understanding your internal ecosystem. Catch a new episode of SOUTH POD every Tuesday night at…
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Why You Should Put People First, Even in a Growing Tech Business
Tech is built by people, for people, but it doesn’t feel that way sometimes. There’s been a lot of talk about this on the West Coast, and we feel it here in the South too. Privacy concerns with Facebook—and the recently shutdown Google+—have people asking questions like, “can we trust technology these days?” and “do…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: The Future of Outsourcing with Andy Hilliard of Accelerance
From the main stage at DIG on the 1/2 Shell, Accelerance President Andy Hilliard shares how to vet and manage offshore tech talent. Interviewed by new South Pod co-host Joel Sadler, Andy relays inspired tales from his world travels and testifies that building an outsourced team doesn’t have to be bad, scary or overwhelming. Catch…
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What’s Your Story: Get to Know Laura Corder, TeamSC Office of Innovation
Laura Corder describes herself as a “motivated advocate for innovators in their relentless pursuit of transformational ideas.” In other words, if you’re curious about startups, job creation, and technology commercialization in South Carolina, Laura probably has the answer, the phone number, or the resource you need. As the Managing Director for the South Carolina Department…
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Unlock Your Capacity: Speaker Q&A with JC Glick
JC Glick didn’t learn his leadership skills in a boardroom or MBA program. He learned them on the battlefield. Glick’s unconventional approach to leadership has been featured in Forbes and the Huffington Post. It’s been used to strengthen cultures at Fortune 500 companies and pro-sports teams like the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers. And it’s…
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Successful People Know the Value of Advice
The most valuable lessons any entrepreneur can learn are from the successes and failures of others. As Confucius said, “Study the past if you would define the future.” For some people, it’s not so easy. A study by Harvard Business School professor, Francesca Gino, says that because our views of our own competence are often overly…
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The Art of Entrepreneurship in Hip-Hop with Charleston’s Benny Starr
Creatives are keenly influenced by their environments. For entrepreneur, hip-hop artist and activist Benny Starr, Charleston is the place that defines him most. Benny shares his approach to distributing and marketing music, and how he uses analytics to increase his reach and fanbase. Catch a new episode of SOUTH POD every Tuesday night at 8PM…
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Atlanta’s Oxford Entrepreneur Center CEO Cliff Oxford Shares Insider Tips on Mergers & Acquisitions
Entrepreneurship hasn’t always been cool. Oxford Entrepreneur Center CEO Cliff Oxford saw a gap in resources for students seeking to be entrepreneurs and founded the Oxford Entrepreneur Center to elevate them to the next level. He provides tips for communicating with entrepreneurs (down to specific word selections), how to scale, why you should do the…
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Meet the Marvelous Misty Lister: ETC South Experience Director
Due to the fantastic growth of DIG SOUTH Tech Conference last April, the October 25 launch of our new fall confab – DIG on the 1/2 Shell – and the addition of ETC South, we decided it was high time to up the ante on your complete DIG SOUTH experience. Enter: the marvelous Misty Lister. As our newest DIG Team member, Misty will…
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Atlatl Releases bCommerce™: The Power of Visual Configuration on Your Website
Atlatl Software, which offers the QuoteBooks Cloud, CPQ and Visual CPQ products geared towards the unique manufacturer and distributor relationship, announces a new product offering: bCommerce™ Visual Configurator. Building on the success of their manufacturing-specific Visual CPQ platform, bCommerce™ gives users access to Atlatl’s 3D Visual Configurator from their web browser. “The dramatic change in…
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Gary Vaynerchuk Explains How to Get His Attention
Social media has changed the way we do business. To stay ahead of the game, serial entrepreneur, NYT bestselling author and VaynerMedia CEO Gary Vaynerchuk says you’ve gotta follow the attention. In this podcast from his 2015 DIG SOUTH presentation, Gary shares invaluable tips for social media marketing, growing your business quickly and gaining the…
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Jet-setting into Computer Science with Megan Landau
From Wyoming to South Carolina, scuba diving instructor to working with robots, Megan Landau has a long list of accomplishments at an early age. Following an internship with Google and graduating from the College of Charleston, she’s currently an Associate Software Engineer for ABC/Disney. On this edition of South Pod, Landau shares peripatetic globetrotting adventures…
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SE Healthcare’s Stephanie K. Sargent Talks HealthTech Disruption & How to Leverage Data
Stephanie K. Sargent, Vice President of Product Development and Quality at SE Healthcare, joins the pod live from DIG SOUTH. Sargent discusses patient engagement and why organizations must effectively examine and deploy data. Bonus tips: Stephanie shares insights and pontificates on her career pivot. Catch a new episode of SOUTH POD every Tuesday night at…
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G2Crowd Ranks InsureSign No. 1 E-signature Software for Usability
G2Crowd, the world’s leading business solutions review website, released its Summer 2018 Report on e-signature software – InsureSign ranks No. 1 for its usability and customer support. InsureSign is currently the highest rated e-signature tool for overall satisfaction on G2Crowd, with 4.9 out of 5 possible stars (a 97 percent satisfaction score). “We’ve always focused…
