Tripp Rackley is the entrepreneurial horse Cox Enterprises Inc. is betting on. And Cox, it seems, is going all in. The Atlanta-based media conglomerate has set aside a quarter of a billion dollars — its largest outside investment — to help Rackley transform a “stack of ideas” into sustainable companies. There are three roadblocks to [...]
Atlanta-Based Cox Enterprises Commits $250 Million to Startups, Innovation
January 21, 2013 | Posted by
Atlanta’s Startup Community Gets New Tech Village in Buckhead
January 8, 2013 | Posted by
In the past few weeks, Pardot’s co-founder, David Cummings, purchased Ivy Place — the circa 1986, hedge-fundy-looking building at the corner of Lenox Road and Piedmont Road. It aptly has large, white letters spelling out “The Private Bank,” twice, on each corner of the building overlooking Buckhead. In an inexplicable turn of events, a building [...]
Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Other ‘Celebrity Angels’ Aligning with Tech Startups
November 24, 2012 | Posted by
Dave Morin isn’t easily star-struck. The early Facebook employee is a close confidant of Mark Zuckerberg, and when Morin left the social networking giant two years ago, it was to launch a startup with Napster founder Shaun Fanning. Still, Morin couldn’t quite hide his surprise a few months back when Britney Spears walked into his [...]
The Challenge of Social Entrepreneurship: Doing Good AND Doing Well
October 16, 2012 | Posted by
Social entrepreneurs are on a mission to solve problems plaguing society, but such altruistic efforts do not force these ventures into becoming profitless charities by default. New investment regulations put in place by the recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act coupled with a shake-up in the traditional venture capitalist model could make it [...]
Are Minority Entrepreneurs Adequately Represented in Startup Arena?
September 30, 2012 | Posted by
What a difference a year makes. Last year the question was “Where are the minority entrepreneurs?” It was highly motivated by the 2010 CBinsights Venture Capital Human Capital Report, which stated that only 1 percent of minority tech startup founders were founded by African-Americans. But the conversation about minority entrepreneurs didn’t only apply to African-Americans, [...]
The Reasons Why Most Startups Fail
September 20, 2012 | Posted by
“For entrepreneurs — especially those just starting out — businesses succeed as much as they fail. I’ve seen this time and again as a mentor and entrepreneur. But statistics also suggest that the failure rate for new startups within the first five years is as high as 50 percent. Of course, real entrepreneurs treat business [...]
America’s Top Startup Cities
August 9, 2012 | Posted by
While the San Francisco Bay Area — including Silicon Valley — has become an unofficial mecca for all things tech, S.F. isn’t the only place where startups thrive. Several other American cities are rising to compete with the Bay, offering budding companies room to play outside the shadows of giants like Google, Apple and Facebook, [...]
