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Meet The Georgia Tech Grad Giving Auction Houses A Millennial Makeover

Meet The Georgia Tech Grad Giving Auction Houses A Millennial Makeover

While Karishma "Kush” Chawla had entrepreneurial ambitions since childhood, it was a ticket to Coachella in 2018 that ultimately sparked her first startup. “It was the year that Beyonce was headlining,” Chawla told Hypepotamus. “And a few months after her performance, Netflix came out with this documentary Homecoming. And

Behind The Atlanta Tech Bringing Local Stars To AR Stages

Behind The Atlanta Tech Bringing Local Stars To AR Stages

Fans at a recent Atlanta Hawks’ game were wowed by more than just Trae Young’s moves, thanks to Atlanta’s growing base of AR technologists. Many of those technologists are housed in YAH (You Are Here) Agency and Georgia State’s Creative Media Industries Insitute (CMII). Those two groups

Meet the Atlanta native fostering MusicTech talent

Meet the Atlanta native fostering MusicTech talent

Atlanta popularized southern rap and Hip-Hop. Memphis claims soul, gospel, rhythm and blues, and rock 'n' roll. New Orleans brought us jazz and Nashville serves as the epicenter of the country music world. The Southeast has influenced nearly every genre of music, and people like Courtney Stewart

Hip Hop's Next Big Hit Just Might Be An Atlanta-based EdTech Startup

Hip Hop's Next Big Hit Just Might Be An Atlanta-based EdTech Startup

For Roy Scott, founding Healthy Hip Hop was an opportunity to blend his love of music with the entrepreneurial mindset he picked up while learning to sell his CDs. “I came up in the hip hop generation,” Scott told Hypepotamus. “I was really influenced by the culture, but I didn’

Hip-Hop-Influenced Technology Podcast Digital Good Times Has Relaunched

After taking a few years off from creating one of Atlanta's earliest platforms connecting hip-hop culture and technology, the influential podcast Digital Good Times has relaunched, with impeccable timing for today's conversations around true diversity and inclusion in tech. Emman 'Small Eyez' Twe

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How Spinrilla Found Its Market By Filling the Discovery Gap For Up-and-Coming Musicians

Drake. Wiz Khalifa. J. Cole. These are just a few of the major hip hop names that built their audience and struck their first break through mixtapes. Sites like Datpiff and LiveMixtapes moved the mixtape genre online in the early 2000s. And the biggest streaming services like Spotify, Pandora and

A3C Conference Seeks Music Tech Startups to Spark Connections

A3C Conference Seeks Music Tech Startups to Spark Connections

Atlanta’s A3C Festival has always been a must-attend event for those who want to be up on the city’s emerging hip hop musicians and cultural icons. But as music, entertainment, culture, and technology have become more and more intertwined over the last few years, the A3C Conference,