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Ugi Gets Orderly | Day in the Life of a Digital Marketing Manager

Ugi Gets Orderly | Day in the Life of a Digital Marketing Manager

Getting into the startup world doesn't require coding skills since age 4, a Harvard MBA, or an abundance of gray hoodies. Startups are about leveraging talent, from all backgrounds, with gusto and grit. They ask employees to be professional hustlers in varied and challenging roles to launch (and

5 Things Needed for a Profitable & Healthy Design Agency

5 Things Needed for a Profitable & Healthy Design Agency

Over the Thanksgiving holiday of 2009, my first son was born and my largest client went bankrupt. Within six weeks, two additional clients informed me they wouldn’t be renewing retainers with my company for 2010. My quarterly revenue dropped from $120,000 to $16,000. I almost lost everything.

Allen Nance On WhatCounts When Building MarTech Startups

Sometime near the end of Dot Com Boom 1.0, Atlanta started to add another chapter to its tech startup history. It's the one about how companies could use technology to tell better marketing stories. Allen Nance was there in 2000 to add his own ingredient to the

Atlanta Cybersecurity Pioneer Decrypts Advice For Startups

Atlanta Cybersecurity Pioneer Decrypts Advice For Startups

Chris Rouland's first startup experiences were full of the usual risks and rewards. But the Atlanta cybersecurity pioneer's third go-round on the startup carousel, Bastille, is especially loaded with challenges and opportunities. That's because Bastille's mission is to protect the Internet

Lessons from Startup Failure.

Postmortem of a Failed Startup: Lessons for Success

Rarely is there a single root cause for a failed startup. Instead, there's a multitude of decisions and actions that intertwine and cascade to ultimately bring a startup towards success or failure. That's what I learned building my startup, Body Boss Fitness, with three of my

Kids With Money

Dollar-Raising Ways to Stay Out of the Idea Graveyard

So you have a great idea and you're seconds away from celebrating your brilliance until you realize you’ll need a significant amount of cash to get started. Don’t get yourself down in the dumps just yet. We’ve generated our best tips for raising capital that