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Atlanta and Georgia lead U.S. in new business creation

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Re: Atlanta and Georgia lead U.S. in new business creation

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post #9

I'm very proud to run an ATL startup, and from the article it sounds like there are many others who feel the same way.

As am I, but honestly I had no idea about the startup activity here. Are there any meetings where founders get together and such?

Geez, yes. To the point that if you went to all of them you'd never get any actual work done.

Nice illustration of all the meetups, organizations, conferences, etc:

http://academicvc.com/2009/05/entrepreneurial-atlanta-2/

Re: Atlanta and Georgia lead U.S. in new business creation

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As am I, but honestly I had no idea about the startup activity here. Are there any meetings where founders get together and such?

Geez, yes. To the point that if you went to all of them you'd never get any actual work done. Nice illustration of all the meetups, organizations, conferences, etc: http://academicvc.com/2009/05/entrepreneurial-atlanta-2/

Wow, thanks. I'm fairly new to the area, and my startup occupies the majority of my time, so I have met few other founders so far. I'll have to leave my cave from time to time to hit some of these.

Re: Atlanta and Georgia lead U.S. in new business creation

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As a job seeker, I'd expect a city with super-high startup activity to have its /eng/ section on craigslist flooded with job ads. It isn't. http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eng/

This is a number of total businesses started, not just technical/engineering ones.

Re: Atlanta and Georgia lead U.S. in new business creation

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post #13

Here's a link to the original study: http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/kiea_042709.pdf Interesting tidbit: "Internet publishing" was considered a low-income-potential business but "software publishing" was considered a high-income-potential business.

They probably include blogging in Internet publishing.
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