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These 11 Startups Are Transforming How We Think About 'Home'

These 11 Startups Are Transforming How We Think About 'Home'

Southeast startups are infiltrating customer’s homes - but in a good way. From improving the home hunting process to reimagining how we live in them, these companies are creating solutions for the burdensome tasks facing homeowners and renters. How We Think About Finding a Home 1) Atlanta-based PadSplit brings

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Southern Tech Cities: A Tour Of Chattanooga, Where Everybody's Gigging

Chattanooga, known by its adopted nickname, “Gig City,” might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of technology in the South. But with the fastest community-wide internet speed in the world and a whirlwind of activity in its startup ecosystem, it’s likely that

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How A People Leader Who's Worked At Starbucks, Sweetgreen, and Bellhops Thinks Companies Should Treat Frontline Workers

Starbucks made headlines in 2014 when it announced its College Achievement Plan, which allowed any employee who worked at least 20 hours a week to earn a bachelor’s college degree with full tuition coverage. Venture-backed food startup Sweetgreen, which says it aims to become the “Starbucks of real

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Bellhops, the Tech Startup That Helps You Move, Raises $30M and Opens Second Office In Atlanta

Bellhops, the Chattanooga-based on-demand moving startup, has raised a substantial Series C in what might be the burgeoning startup city’s largest technology funding round ever. Beyond a rapid expansion across new markets, the funding will go towards doubling the company’s employee base and a new office

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How the Country's Only Logistics Tech VC Firm Is Attracting Startups From All Over to Chattanooga

“If you think about the economy, supply chain is at the center of the economy, and transportation is essentially the supply chain. And we’re at the center of all of that.” Santosh Sankar, co-founder and director of logistics and supply-chain focused venture capital fund Dynamo, is bullish

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This Former Uber Manager Is Still Disrupting the Transportation Industry As Bellhops CEO

Bellhops started with two recently-graduated college students who were fed up with the complexities of moving multiple times in their early adult years. They employed a contractor worker model (many of the "bellhops" being college students themselves) and focus on small-scale moving, unlike traditional larger operations