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April 29th, 2011
Search engine marketing expert Ben Rudolph says getting visitors to take action is key
By Allan Maurer
When people need a product or service, they often start their search online. At that moment there is an opportunity to grab a consumer’s attention.
Benjamin Rudolph
President & CEO, Relevance Advisors
April 14th, 2011
Allison Fabella, AJC SEO & Social Media Manager appearing at Digital Summit in May
By Allan Maurer
It isn’t always easy to get veteran journalists with ingrained habits and 30 or 40 years of experience to change their ways. But when they see more people reading their stories online because they pay attention to Search Engine Optimization in their headlines and leads, they tend to come around.
Allison Fabella
March 10th, 2011
By Allan Maurer
Twitpay, the company that emerged from a Startup Weekend in Atlanta in 2008, grabbed a good bit of national press when it launched, but changed direction last year when it’s original model did not work out.
Twitpay’s John Beisner sees green in social game space
February 16th, 2011
Entrepreneurial ecosystem in Atlanta could use coordination
By Allan Maurer
Atlanta has totally changed several times over in the 41 years Sig Mosley, Jr. of Imlay Investments has been doing business in the city.
Sig Mosley, Jr.: “[Startups] underestimate what they need and what it will take to get to the marketplace”
February 8th, 2011
Dan McDade’s first book, “The Truth About Leads,” just published
By Allan Maurer
Dan McDade thinks lead management processes are broken in most companies and it frustrates him to the point that he wrote a book, published this week, called “The Truth About Leads.”
Dan McDade
January 27th, 2011
More than 100 people will attempt to form working startups
By Allan Maurer
Start Atlanta aims to pick up where the similar Atlanta Startup Weekend left off, but with a more local emphasis and a serious attempt to sustain firms created over the weekend of January 29-30, the event’s organizers say. The event launches Friday night and doesn’t end until Sunday evening, with final presentations taking place at 5 p.m., and includes sessions with mentors and professionals in addition to team working sessions.
Jason Ardell, software engineer for Neybgor and Tourbuzz
January 21st, 2011
Online sellers who qualify can have money in their PayPal account in ten minutes
By Allan Maurer
Kabbage, (http://www.kabbage.com/) which just planted $6.65 million led by BlueRun Ventures in the bank, is a company with one of those innovative ideas that could not have happened at a better time. The company makes working capital advances via PayPal to qualified online sellers.
Marc Gorlin, chairman of Kabbage, at the 2010 Internet Summit in Raleigh, NC
November 30th, 2010
Connections to the broader technology community part of the success puzzle
By Allan Maurer
Atlanta’s technology community has weaknesses, early-stage startup funding probably the most apparent. But over the last few years we have seen a growing network of support organizations, events, and people helping make the Atlanta entrepreneurial community more vibrant and successful.
One of the groups helping Atlanta entrepreneurs grab some visibility is Startup Council.
Startup Council “alum” Toomah went on to become “Georgia’s most promising new tech company”
November 19th, 2010
In business or in body building, Jeff Pedowitz loves a challenge
By Allan Maurer
Jeff Pedowitz‘s first passion was to own a restaurant, a dream that came true when he and his father bought a Subway franchise in New Jersey decades ago. “I still credit most of my business experience to my early days in retail,” says Pedowitz, who now runs Alpharetta-based The Pedowitz Group, a tech-focused “demand generation agency” with partner Debbie Qaqish, Bruce Culbert and Cherie Pedowitz.
Jeff Pedowitz coaching soccer in Atlanta
October 28th, 2010
Startup Fashion-Ade turns a woman’s closet into data
By Allan Maurer
What does an angel investor know that helps if she decides to launch a company of her own? That’s what we wanted to know from Ella Dyer, formerly a principal at JTD Portfolio Management, an angel fund that invested in a number of successful enterprises.
Ella Dyer, a former angel investor, says, “Bet on the jockey, not the horse”
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