Celebrate with Atlanta’s CEOs and Entrepreneurs The Atlanta CEO Council is celebrating the end of 2014 with a special Holiday Event on December 8 to support our next generation of entrepreneurs with Junior Achievement of Georgia.  Through our  involvement in building JA’s Chick-Fil-A Foundation Discovery Center, we have impacted the lives of 32,000 students, more than […]

Many startups begin during a brainstorming session among two friends. The emotions are intense; you cannot wait to get started. 80 hour work weeks, shared failures and being broke create solidarity in purpose. But something happens when the company becomes profitable. Some partners want double the effort and some want to double their paycheck. Benevolence is not a universal […]

The 2012 Venture Atlanta marks the passing of $1billion in investment in local companies.  Hundreds of investors and entrepreneurs attended the event to see some of the brightest and best pitch their ventures. For a complete listing of Venture Atlanta presenters, visit Venture Atlanta. For a summary, visit AJC.com.

It was standing room only at The Challenge of Raising Capital,Wednesday, January 26. Thanks to Venture Capital panelists: Gerald Benjamin,Atlanta Equity, Frank Dalton, Fulcrum Equity Partners; Tom Hawkins, Arcapita; Ross Mason, HealthTrain Ventures; and Fred Sturgis, H.I.G. Capital.

Over 64 percent of respondents anticipate seeing a marked
improvement in the economy in the first half of 2010 or earlier