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Leadership Capital Can Be Built With These 5 Words, Says Atlanta Entrepreneur & Harvard Business School Lecturer

Leadership Capital Can Be Built With These 5 Words, Says Atlanta Entrepreneur & Harvard Business School Lecturer

Leadership isn’t a skill that a founder should start thinking about after they’ve hired a full team and have their business in full swing, says Harvard Business School lecturer and Atlanta entrepreneur Archie Jones. Instead, it is something that entrepreneurs should start working on even when they are

Techstars Atlanta Grad Joonko Lands $10M To Match Companies With Diverse Tech Talent

Techstars Atlanta Grad Joonko Lands $10M To Match Companies With Diverse Tech Talent

Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975, serves as an apt namesake for one fast-growing startup in Birmingham. It certainly does take grit and perseverance to improve how tech companies source great talent. Joonko, the brainchild of Ilit Raz, is a diversity, equity, and inclusion

Smarp

Scandinavian Startup Smarp Brings A Nordic Attitude and 'Skaberkraft' to U.S. HQ In Atlanta

You may not know it, but several of your favorite tech brands have Nordic origins. Spotify, Skype, Bluetooth, and iZettle (sold to PayPal) all hail from the upper European peninsula comprised of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. And recently, the Nordic entrepreneurial mindset, marked by a focus on education, employee

kabbage

How We Work: Kabbage Avoids Bureaucracy As It Continues to Sprout

This is part of our How We Work series, which focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. When you walk around the headquarters of fintech company Kabbage, you see a lot of open doors. You see a lot of vegetable puns — their internal newsletter is

rented.com

How We Work: Building A Company Culture to Hit 50X Revenue

This is part of our How We Work series, which focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. Rented.com, formerly VacationFutures, was doing well at the close of 2016. The startup, founded in 2012 to connect rental property owners with professional managers, had raised capital,

Post-IPO, Cardlytics CEO Scott Grimes Looks Towards International Expansion, Potential M&A

Post-IPO, Cardlytics CEO Scott Grimes Looks Towards International Expansion, Potential M&A

This past February, Martech company Cardlytics (CDLX) rang the NASDAQ bell to announce the pricing of its public common stock offering, closing the day slightly above their initial price of $13 (at $13.37 per share). But that morning, as they headed over to Wall Street, the DOW was down

How We Work: How Payscape Revamped Its HR Department During A Hiring Spree to Get Ahead Of Culture

How We Work: How Payscape Revamped Its HR Department During A Hiring Spree to Get Ahead Of Culture

This is part of our How We Work series, which focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. In 2017, fintech power player Payscape invested $50 million to expand their operations to 14 offices, adding 80 new hires in the past year with a goal of