Category: Startups
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Building the Future’s Best Products with Thor Ernstsson, Founder of Alpha
Thor Ernstsson knows what makes a truly great product. As a veteran software developer, CTO and entrepreneur, he’s built widely-used technology for startups and Fortune 100 brands spanning industries from healthcare to entertainment. Remember the game FarmVille? He oversaw the app’s development during his role as Zynga’s lead architect and studio CTO. Ever heard of…
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How to Perfect Your Pitch with Trey Scott, Founder of WatchPitch
What’s your story? Q&A series, part 3 In the mountains of North Carolina, a former journalist turned tech founder is reinventing the way startups and investors interact. After many years working as a CBS News reporter, Trey left the newsroom to follow his passion for sustainability, founding Solar Spirals, a social enterprise that managed renewable…
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Venture For America CEO Amy Nelson to Headline Startup Day 2018
Venture For America CEO Amy Nelson will be the featured speaker for Innov865 Week’s Startup Day 2018. Venture For America is a nonprofit fellowship program that connects recent college graduates with jobs at startups, forging a community of entrepreneurs committed to building companies that matter and creating economic opportunity in American cities. “Knoxville has a…
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How One U.S. Student is Fueling a Movement Against Drug-facilitated Sexual Assault
It’s a problem that’s been under-reported, under-addressed and under-combatted. Until now. The #MeToo social movement has made international headlines following the 2017 Harvey Weinstein scandal. As a result, public awareness about sexual violence is at an all-time high. One facet of that crime is drug-facilitated assaults. With more than 50 total accusers, Bill Cosby was convicted of…
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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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5 Tips for Growing A Technology Services Company into a Top-Ranked Brand
In the technology industry, professional services companies are often overlooked in comparison to SaaS or technology-platform companies, especially in the eyes of investors and public relations. This paradigm has always seemed odd to me. Of course, I understand why investors may seek out technology-based companies over service-based companies as the return on investment has the…
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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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From Opera to AI: Lazard VP Carrie Jaquith Shares Why Curiosity and Data Are Key to Building Business
Whether tinkering in machine shops, coding with software teams, or singing opera alongside a symphony orchestra, Carrie Jaquith brings curiosity and creativity to everything she does. A classically-trained singer (she holds a Masters in Music and studied under Joan Lader, one of the most sought-after vocal coaches on Broadway), Carrie now spends more of her…
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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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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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Not the Original Plan: How Wyndy CEO Tommy Mayfield Changed the Babysitting Business
Knowing when to make a personal pivot can be a business life saver. From attorney to startup entrepreneur, Wyndy co-founder and CEO Tommy Mayfield details how his life took a turn as he and wife Ginger cofounded a business to solve their own problem: how to readily find reliable and trustworthy babysitters. Tommy shares tips…
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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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Jon and Stanfield’s Rookie Season: How Does this Pod Thing Work?
Testing … testing … ahem … Co-hosts Jon Yarian and Stanfield Gray embarked on a weekly podcast last January. The goal was simple: expand on their passion for showcasing stories of entrepreneurs, executives and experts in the South. Eureka! SOUTH POD was born. We thought it would be fun to share a few outtakes from…
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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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Raw Entrepreneurship with Gust CEO, David Rose
“Entrepreneurs are willing to take risks, but they don’t see risks the way others do.” Gust CEO, Author and 5th Generation Entrepreneur, David Rose joins SOUTH POD to talk all things #entrepreneurlife. We examine what investors are looking for, how entrepreneurs think differently and answer the controversial question: Can one learn how to become an…
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The Heart of It: Startup Support with Oracle’s Jason Williamson
While many believe money is the foundation of a healthy startup, it’s actually relationships that form the core. Jason Williamson, Vice President, Startup Ecosystem at DIG SOUTH sponsor Oracle, joins the pod to share about their support of the startup community, why they do not take equity in exchange for investments and how you can…
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SE Healthcare Creates New Software Platform to Enhance Reimbursement for Healthcare Providers
CHARLESTON, SC, June 4, 2018 – SE Healthcare is excited to announce the official rollout of the Reimbursement Effectiveness Platform, the newest component of the company’s Physician Empowerment Suite, created for 26 individual specialties. SE is a healthcare technology company offering solutions to healthcare organizations through data analytics tools designed to improve safety, quality, reputation, risk…
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Lift Off! How to Maintain Values Despite Rapid Growth with Shipt’s Sam Lederman
Sam Lederman, Growth Manager of the United States’ fastest growing, on demand grocery delivery service, Shipt joins the pod live from DIG SOUTH 2018 in Charleston. We take a look at business in the South (vs business in the North) and how to foster loyalty among both customers and employees. Bonus: Sam shares how…
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ESW Capital: The Secret Sauce to Running Better Tech Companies with Alex Western
While everyone else is shopping for talent and tech, ESW Capital is shopping for companies. Alex Western, Managing Director of ESW Capital, has the secret sauce to running tech companies better on this special episode of SOUTH POD. Catch a new episode of SOUTH POD every Tuesday night at 8PM EST, streaming live. To download this…
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Charleston’s Galloping Gazelles
The Economist recently reported that while overall business formation is down nationwide, fast-growing startups are in high gear. These fast-growth new businesses or “gazelles” have disproportionately positive impact on employment & economic growth, and are no longer limited to Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York. In fact, the Charleston metro scores as one of the highest-growth entrepreneurial…
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Three Reasons to Visit Oracle at DIG SOUTH
Think Oracle and small, high-growth companies have nothing in common? You’d be surprised. Here, at Oracle, we’re gearing up to soak in the energy and innovation coming out of this year’s DIG SOUTH Tech Conference in Charleston, South Carolina at the end of this month (April 25-27). For the uninitiated, conference organizers bill DIG SOUTH…
