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2007 ION Venture Forum

  2007 ION Venture Forum Join us September 25-26 for our sixth annual ION Venture Forum, one of the Southeast’s most prestigious venture capital conferences. This year’s conference will feature keynote speaker Scott McNealy, Chairman and Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems and a fresh crop of Georgia’s promising high-growth technology companies who will present their plans […]

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Spring & Winter 2007 Executive Moves

May Hank Boughner joined H.I.G. Ventures as managing director. The Cobb Community Bank named John Scherer as local market president. Rita Carson Guest President and Director of Design at Carson Guest Inc. has been appointed as Georgia’s first registered interior designer and the first interior designer appointed to serve on the Georgia Board of Architects […]

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ATDC celebrates One Billion Mark

      Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center to Celebrate One Billion Dollars in Venture Capital Since 1999, companies from Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) have raised one billion dollars in venture capital. In 2006, 10 of the top 25 largest venture capital deals – including the two largest – went to […]

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Construction Costs-The Quiet Deal Killer: GVA Advantis

    Construction Costs: The Quiet Deal Killer By: Gannon Shepherd, Associate, and Dan Granot, Executive Director, GVA Advantis How to avoid the pitfalls of escalating construction costs in your next real estate deal The Issue: Like the heartburn that American consumers are experiencing at the gas pump, the global economy is giving many Atlanta […]

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SOX for Private Companies: King & Spalding LLP

    SOX for Private Companies By: Lynn S. Scott, Partner, King & Spalding LLP Today when we talk or read about “SOX” it usually isn’t the White Sox or even the Red Sox. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (“SOX”) resulted from the highly publicized scandals at ENRON and WorldCom, among others, that caused massive […]

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