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Atlanta's Avant South 2026 Conference Returns With OpenAI, NVIDIA Speaker

Atlanta's Avant South 2026 Conference Returns With OpenAI, NVIDIA Speaker

Avant South, the City of Atlanta's annual technology and innovation conference, is back for its fourth year on October 12-13, 2026, and ready to engage Atlanta's tech talent pool. This year's speaker list reads like a shortlist of the people currently deciding how

Homegrown Is Building The Online Farmers Market Shopify Never Built

Homegrown Is Building The Online Farmers Market Shopify Never Built

ATLANTA, July 29 (Hypepotamus) - Local bakers, ranchers, and cottage food makers have long relied on Instagram DMs and Venmo to run their businesses. Homegrown wants to replace that patchwork with an online storefront…and one that actually helps people shop more locally. Building A Storefront & A Marketplace On the

AI Spending Is Outpacing ROI, Industry Leaders Warn

AI Spending Is Outpacing ROI, Industry Leaders Warn

July 29 (Hypepotamus) - Over a coffee a few months ago in Midtown, a CEO told me they had stopped plans to hire another junior-level developer. Instead, they were seeing how far the team could get with everyone’s new favorite co-worker: Claude Code. But what happened three months

How Passport Built A Culture That Turned Employees Into Founders.

How Passport Built A Culture That Turned Employees Into Founders.

Passport’s most consequential product for Charlotte may not be parking software. It may be the people who learned inside the company how to build, finance, and scale technology businesses—and then took that knowledge into the region’s next generation of startups.

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In Asheville, A New Path Forward To Fund Startup Businesses Is Emerging

Asheville, July 24 (HYPEPOTAMUS) - Give away equity or take on debt financing. Those have been the typical routes founders who need money to scale can take. But a new fund up in Asheville, North Carolina, called Optimist Ventures, has a different idea…one that its CEO says can be a

How A Metro Atlanta Museum Is Preserving—and Bringing to Life—Tech History

How A Metro Atlanta Museum Is Preserving—and Bringing to Life—Tech History

ROSWELL, GA, July 23 (Hypepotamus) - Inside a Roswell storefront, more than 2,000 artifacts tell the story of how Apple grew from a California startup into one of the world’s most influential technology companies. The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art holds one of the largest private collections of

A Leaner, Sharper Second Act for Georgia Tech's Food and Beverage Accelerator

A Leaner, Sharper Second Act for Georgia Tech's Food and Beverage Accelerator

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on Tech Square ATL and is brought to you by a content partnership. ATLANTA, July 21 (Tech Square ATL) - When the Georgia Tech Food and Beverage Accelerator (GT.FBA) launched its first cohort in January 2025, the program set out to help

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