Meet Healthfundr: Equity-Based Crowdfunding For Health Startups

When Marshall McLuhan said that the medium is the message in the 1960s, it’s amazing to think about how much that idea still applies in present culture. What he meant is that new forms of media (technology) transform our experience and is ultimately more important than the content that is shared. In other words, technology [...]... Read More

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Resource Network For Underserved Entrepreneurs Emerges In Atlanta
BY: Corey Cummings
Atlanta entrepreneurs have been given a new resource for building their next company with the launch of The Legacy Movement, a startup bringing underserved communities a network of mentors and valuable business building tools.
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Atlanta’s ClickFox Remains Unchallenged In IVR Customer Analytics Industry
BY: Corey Cummings
ClickFox has moved deep into customer behavior analysis across a variety of web-based platforms since its launch in 2000. The company has been so successful in its field that Forbes named it one of the 10 greatest industry-disrupting startups of this year.
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Phonograf To Be “The Instagram For Music”
BY: Corey Cummings
Atlanta-based startup Phonograf is looking to merge mobile music and social sharing with its forthcoming Android app. The app allows users to follow, comment, and elegantly share the music they love the most with their mobile network of friends.
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Socialvest Solves Buyer’s Remorse With Charitable Giving
BY: Corey Cummings
Atlanta startup Socialvest is eliminating the threat of buyer’s remorse by empowering shoppers to give back with each purchase they make through online retailers like Amazon, Target, and more.
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RentPost Brings Simple Property Management To The Cloud
BY: Lindsay ONeal
RentPost, a startup out of Athens, GA, is hoping to improve the way landlords manage their property and communicate with their tenants by creating simple, easy-to-use software.
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Scoutmob Launches Local Handmade Marketplace ‘Shoppe’
BY: Lindsay ONeal
Atlanta-based Scoutmob, known primarily for its local daily deal offerings, recently launched Shoppe, an ecommerce marketplace showcasing locally-made goods and the creators behind them.
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BlackGirlsCode Raises $21,000 To Fund Summer Of Code Program In Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis and More
BY: Kathryn Hough
Much ado is made about changing the ratio of women to men in computer science programs, but BlackGirlsCode is an organization that is taking the initiative one step further.
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Can You Measure Employee Happiness? WorkityWork Says ‘Yes’
BY: Irina Papuc
The recently launched web service WorkityWork engages working teams by sharing daily triumphs, tracking vibes, generating morale polls, and touting milestones.
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Gossip Permeates 15 Percent of All Work Emails, Study Finds
BY: Corey Cummings
A recent study conducted by Georgia Tech has found that nearly 15 percent of the average 112 emails sent by workers daily can be classified as gossip, but finds it may not be such a bad thing.
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How To Measure Customer Engagement On Social Shopping Sites
BY: Kathryn Hough
Companies need to measure customer engagement to remain competitive. Here’s how to measure engagement on social shopping sites.
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The Coupon Doc: Extreme Couponing For Medications
BY: Michelle Doellman
Atlanta-based startup The Coupon Doc is a one-stop shop for all types of coupons for medication. Search by specific prescription or medical condition and find hundreds of coupons in seconds.
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Fracture Putty Will Mend Your Broken Bones (Not Your Broken Heart)
BY: Corey Cummings
Earlier this month The University of Georgia in Athens announced the development of a bone mending putty, a gel made from stem cells that has been proven to heal broken bones in rats in as little as two weeks. When using only stem-cells, testing on sheep yielded the regeneration of bone in just under four [...]
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