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 […]

    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 […]

      Improve your Marketing ROI through Email 2.0 By: Joe Schab, CEO, Creative Digital Group Despite a reputation for being skittish when it comes to adopting new technologies, the retail industry is, in fact, showing many other industries the way toward embracing Email 2.0. Tools like video, blogs, RSS, social content sites and […]

    A Primer on Finding the Perfect Candidate By: Vinay Chandra, President, Resourcis, Inc. What have you been doing to find the best candidates for your most important open positions? Having spent a good part of the last decade in the search business, this is a question that I ask a lot, to my […]

Communicating as a Newly Public Company By: Brad MacAfee, Partner & EVP, Porter Novelli – Atlanta During the last year, a number of privately-held technology companies in Atlanta were acquired including JBoss, which was purchased by Red Hat, CipherTrust, which joined Secure Computing and GuardedNet, which became a part of Micromuse (now a property of […]