Tag: southern startups

  • 9 Southern Companies That Will Make You More Productive

    9 Southern Companies That Will Make You More Productive

    Whether you have a corporate job, a creative side hustle, or a growing startup (or heck, all three), you’re probably always on the hunt for ways to get sh*t done. It’s a good thing, then, that the productivity software industry is growing. Australian workplace software maker Atlassian just acquired Trello for $425 million, Asana raised…

  • 10 Southern Companies Growing the Sharing Economy in 2017

    10 Southern Companies Growing the Sharing Economy in 2017

      The sharing economy has exploded over the past few years, providing consumers with convenient access to goods and services and opening new income opportunities for anyone with a car, home, or household toolbox. Most anyone with a smart phone has used Airbnb or Uber; in September, the ride-sharing service reported 8 million users, 160,000…

  • 8 Holiday Gift Boxes Made by Southern Entrepreneurs

    8 Holiday Gift Boxes Made by Southern Entrepreneurs

      You can now have pretty much anything selected, packaged, and delivered to your door on a regular basis. No really, there are subscription boxes for razors, dog treats, socks, meals…the list is endless. According to Bloomberg, nearly 2,000 companies have a subscription-style delivery service as part of their business plans, and subscription marketplace Cratejoy…

  • 11 Can’t miss Demo Days Coming up Around the South

    11 Can’t miss Demo Days Coming up Around the South

      The South is home to an array of startup accelerators and coding bootcamps — competitive programs that provide growth-stage companies and emerging software developers with the mentorship, connections, and resources they need to succeed. As the year comes to an end, many of these accelerators and code schools will host Demo Days, often complete…

  • 11 Southern Companies Giving Back on #GivingTuesday (and beyond)

    11 Southern Companies Giving Back on #GivingTuesday (and beyond)

    While the Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday bargains are definitely worth celebrating, we’re particularly excited that today is #GivingTuesday, a “global day of giving fueled by the power of social media and collaboration.” The charitable movement is now entering its fifth year — last year alone, over 700,000 people across the globe…

  • Six Southern startups bringing you gratitude and positivity this Thanksgiving

    Six Southern startups bringing you gratitude and positivity this Thanksgiving

    The “thanks – giving” part of Thanksgiving often gets overshadowed by stress. Do you really have to make Paleo-approved sides for your cousin? How do you make sure no one brings up the election? Will Waze actually save you from getting a speeding ticket? Exactly how early can you duck out of the office on…

  • These Southern companies are making Election Day an unofficial holiday

    These Southern companies are making Election Day an unofficial holiday

      Hundreds of tech companies are turning Election Day into an unofficial holiday so employees have time to get to the polls. And while a big number of the organizations that we’ve seen are New York or California-based (including major brands like Spotify, Thrillist, and Evernote), many Southern CEOs are actively encouraging their workforce to…

  • How 12 Southern startups can offer Hurricane Matthew relief

    How 12 Southern startups can offer Hurricane Matthew relief

    Hurricane Matthew is finally behind us, but residents of Haiti, parts of the Caribbean, and much of the Southeastern US are still dealing with its disastrous effects. Severe weather events like Matthew have a tendency to bring people together — government officials pulling long hours, emergency response crews bravely rescuing those in need, and neighbors…

  • Gotta Catch ‘Em All: 10 Mobile Gaming Startups in the South

    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…

  • Sun’s Out, Guns Out! 10 Southern Startups with Your Summer Fitness Fix

    Sun’s Out, Guns Out! 10 Southern Startups with Your Summer Fitness Fix

    As temperatures heat up and bathing suits find their way back into your wardrobe rotation, how will you keep your fitness regimen on track while still enjoying weekend cookouts and ice cream truck stops? You could certainly try Kanye’s workout plan, or you could turn to these 10 Southern startups that make it more convenient…

  • 10 Southern Startups Helping Parents Make This the Best Summer Yet

    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,…

  • Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South

    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.…

  • 11 Southern Startups That Will Save Your Summer Travel

    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…

  • Bet Your Bottom Dollar on These Nine Southern FinTech Startups

    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.…

  • Eight Southern Startups Getting Real with Virtual Reality

    Eight Southern Startups Getting Real with Virtual Reality

    Virtual reality seemed to be top of mind at this year’s DIG SOUTH Interactive Festival. Speakers including Gary Vaynerchuk and Eric Bowman were fired up about VR, both making predictions about how fast (or slow) the technology will be adopted. Goldman Sachs estimates the virtual and augmented reality market could reach $80B by 2025 (and…

  • 7 Startups Changing Journalism and Publishing

    7 Startups Changing Journalism and Publishing

     Remember when everyone used to say, “There’s an app for that”? Lately, we should start saying, “There’s a day for that.” From National Cat Day to National Donut Day, calendars and social media feeds are filling up fast with honorary holidays. While we love cats and donuts (we’re human, after all), something we love even…

  • 9 Startups That Will Totally Improve Your Productivity This Year

    9 Startups That Will Totally Improve Your Productivity This Year

    We read somewhere recently that between 80 to 92% of New Year’s resolutions are broken by January 20th. Inspiring stuff, eh? As we enter February, we want to make sure that’s not the case for the DIG Nation. We found nine productivity software startups from around the South that will help you work smarter and faster,…

  • 9 Southern Startups to make your Thanksgiving easier

    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…