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The quarterly family-friendly affair invites the community to shop, be entertained, gain knowledge and fellowship. “I wanted it to feel like one big family reunion/party,” says founder and curator Dr. Lakeysha “Key” Hallmon. “There’s a lot happening in the space, and I think that’s what makes it really special.”The concept for the marketplace was born after Hallmon began hosting master classes on business development and financial empowerment under another social enterprise she created, Young, Gifted and Black. The monthly sessions, which she called the Village Market Series, were free and quickly began to expand. “Each month, there would be over 100 attendees in these master classes, and more than 80 percent of them were entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs,” Hallmon recalls. “People were hungry for knowledge on how to build and sustain their businesses, but there wasn’t a platform for them to gain the exposure they needed to be successful.” Hallmon recognized this as an opportunity to create that platform. So, leveraging the audience she gained through the classes, she began designing the blueprint for an event that the entrepreneurs could graduate to in order to put what they had learned into action. With each event, the Village Market ATL has gained momentum and currently has a waiting list of vendors for its next expo. And to ensure they have a solid showcase, each merchant is thoroughly vetted. Hallmon’s team considers the length of time a potential vendor has been in business, payment options available to customers and more. They also have honest conversations with entrepreneurs about what the owner believes is stifling their company’s growth.“ I really have a very good vision of what I want for our community and black entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color,” Hallmon says. “I want us to have infrastructure of strong customer service, excellence in quality and sustainability.”But of more importance than the goods and/or services a vendor provides is its record of giving back to the community. “You have to be a social entrepreneur,” Hallmon says. “You can’t just come and make money. That’s being short-sighted in terms of what the village needs. I really believe in the model of when you give, you receive and when you receive, you give.” And her belief seems to be proving itself true. The events get more than just foot traffic from window shoppers. At the most recent expo in July, more than 1,200 attendees spent a combined total of more than $25,000 with vendors with a portion of that money being redirected back into the community. Separate from vendor giving, the Village Market ATL itself applied a large portion of the admission ticket proceeds to We Got Your Back, a grant Hallmon set up to support organizations that focus on creating engaging and progressive opportunities for youth. Plus, a select number of attendees was awarded bundles of empowerment vouchers that could be used for free services, including therapy sessions, gym memberships and plant-based meals. Once well established, the plan is to grow the Village Market beyond Atlanta. “We want to hit the urban cities of the United States and internationally bringing more exposure and consistency to buying in the local community,” she says. “The vision is to create a strong skeleton of buying black, buying local and being intentional about our spending, and for entrepreneurs, also being intentional about the product that they’re selling.” Despite the various expos, festivals, entertainment and pop-up events that are a part of Atlanta’s consumer landscape, it hasn’t given rise to a sense of competitiveness in Hallmon. “I understand that this is Atlanta and everything is showy. There’s a place for showy, and there’s a community for it. I’m OK with that. It’s just not my area,” she says with a smile. “If Beyoncé is coming to town, it’s showy, and I’m going. 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The quarterly family-friendly affair invites the community to shop, be entertained, gain knowledge and fellowship. “I wanted it to feel like one big family reunion/party,” says founder and curator Dr. Lakeysha “Key” Hallmon. “There’s a lot happening in the space, and I think that’s what makes it really special.”The concept for the marketplace was born after Hallmon began hosting master classes on business development and financial empowerment under another social enterprise she created, Young, Gifted and Black. The monthly sessions, which she called the Village Market Series, were free and quickly began to expand. “Each month, there would be over 100 attendees in these master classes, and more than 80 percent of them were entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs,” Hallmon recalls. “People were hungry for knowledge on how to build and sustain their businesses, but there wasn’t a platform for them to gain the exposure they needed to be successful.” Hallmon recognized this as an opportunity to create that platform. So, leveraging the audience she gained through the classes, she began designing the blueprint for an event that the entrepreneurs could graduate to in order to put what they had learned into action. With each event, the Village Market ATL has gained momentum and currently has a waiting list of vendors for its next expo. And to ensure they have a solid showcase, each merchant is thoroughly vetted. Hallmon’s team considers the length of time a potential vendor has been in business, payment options available to customers and more. They also have honest conversations with entrepreneurs about what the owner believes is stifling their company’s growth.“ I really have a very good vision of what I want for our community and black entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color,” Hallmon says. “I want us to have infrastructure of strong customer service, excellence in quality and sustainability.”But of more importance than the goods and/or services a vendor provides is its record of giving back to the community. “You have to be a social entrepreneur,” Hallmon says. “You can’t just come and make money. That’s being short-sighted in terms of what the village needs. I really believe in the model of when you give, you receive and when you receive, you give.” And her belief seems to be proving itself true. The events get more than just foot traffic from window shoppers. At the most recent expo in July, more than 1,200 attendees spent a combined total of more than $25,000 with vendors with a portion of that money being redirected back into the community. Separate from vendor giving, the Village Market ATL itself applied a large portion of the admission ticket proceeds to We Got Your Back, a grant Hallmon set up to support organizations that focus on creating engaging and progressive opportunities for youth. Plus, a select number of attendees was awarded bundles of empowerment vouchers that could be used for free services, including therapy sessions, gym memberships and plant-based meals. Once well established, the plan is to grow the Village Market beyond Atlanta. “We want to hit the urban cities of the United States and internationally bringing more exposure and consistency to buying in the local community,” she says. “The vision is to create a strong skeleton of buying black, buying local and being intentional about our spending, and for entrepreneurs, also being intentional about the product that they’re selling.” Despite the various expos, festivals, entertainment and pop-up events that are a part of Atlanta’s consumer landscape, it hasn’t given rise to a sense of competitiveness in Hallmon. “I understand that this is Atlanta and everything is showy. There’s a place for showy, and there’s a community for it. I’m OK with that. It’s just not my area,” she says with a smile. “If Beyoncé is coming to town, it’s showy, and I’m going. But, the Village Market is truly like a family reunion with people you don’t know, and I want us to know what it feels like to come together again.” ''The Black Friday edition of the Village Market ATL takes place Nov. 24-25 at the Georgia Freight Depot, 65 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.W. For more details and to purchase tickets, visit www.thevillagemarketatl.com.''" 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The quarterly family-friendly affair invites the community to shop, be entertained, gain knowledge and fellowship. “I wanted it to feel like one big family reunion/party,” says founder and curator Dr. Lakeysha “Key” Hallmon. “There’s a lot happening in the space, and I think that’s what makes it really special.”The concept for the marketplace was born after Hallmon began hosting master classes on business development and financial empowerment under another social enterprise she created, Young, Gifted and Black. The monthly sessions, which she called the Village Market Series, were free and quickly began to expand. “Each month, there would be over 100 attendees in these master classes, and more than 80 percent of them were entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs,” Hallmon recalls. “People were hungry for knowledge on how to build and sustain their businesses, but there wasn’t a platform for them to gain the exposure they needed to be successful.” Hallmon recognized this as an opportunity to create that platform. So, leveraging the audience she gained through the classes, she began designing the blueprint for an event that the entrepreneurs could graduate to in order to put what they had learned into action. With each event, the Village Market ATL has gained momentum and currently has a waiting list of vendors for its next expo. And to ensure they have a solid showcase, each merchant is thoroughly vetted. Hallmon’s team considers the length of time a potential vendor has been in business, payment options available to customers and more. They also have honest conversations with entrepreneurs about what the owner believes is stifling their company’s growth.“ I really have a very good vision of what I want for our community and black entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color,” Hallmon says. “I want us to have infrastructure of strong customer service, excellence in quality and sustainability.”But of more importance than the goods and/or services a vendor provides is its record of giving back to the community. “You have to be a social entrepreneur,” Hallmon says. “You can’t just come and make money. That’s being short-sighted in terms of what the village needs. I really believe in the model of when you give, you receive and when you receive, you give.” And her belief seems to be proving itself true. The events get more than just foot traffic from window shoppers. At the most recent expo in July, more than 1,200 attendees spent a combined total of more than $25,000 with vendors with a portion of that money being redirected back into the community. Separate from vendor giving, the Village Market ATL itself applied a large portion of the admission ticket proceeds to We Got Your Back, a grant Hallmon set up to support organizations that focus on creating engaging and progressive opportunities for youth. Plus, a select number of attendees was awarded bundles of empowerment vouchers that could be used for free services, including therapy sessions, gym memberships and plant-based meals. Once well established, the plan is to grow the Village Market beyond Atlanta. “We want to hit the urban cities of the United States and internationally bringing more exposure and consistency to buying in the local community,” she says. “The vision is to create a strong skeleton of buying black, buying local and being intentional about our spending, and for entrepreneurs, also being intentional about the product that they’re selling.” Despite the various expos, festivals, entertainment and pop-up events that are a part of Atlanta’s consumer landscape, it hasn’t given rise to a sense of competitiveness in Hallmon. “I understand that this is Atlanta and everything is showy. There’s a place for showy, and there’s a community for it. I’m OK with that. It’s just not my area,” she says with a smile. “If Beyoncé is coming to town, it’s showy, and I’m going. 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Just take a quick survey of all the co-working spaces that have been sprouting up around town, housing this new generation of business owners from Downtown to the Old Fourth Ward, Midtown, Buckhead and beyond and you'll see that our city is in a prime position to claim the mantle of "Silicon Valley of the South." And it's not just the number of new companies that's worth taking stock of it's also the kinds of companies we're growing in the ATL. The entrepreneurs in our fair city are creating businesses that are infused with creative energy and built on a foundation of art and culture, as well as commerce. So much so, that we decided to turn the spotlight on a handful of locally based startups to learn about their organizations and the workspaces they've come to call home. To make this piece happen, Creative Loafing teamed up with the folks from Hypepotamus, the leading startup and technology-focused publication in the Southeast. Working in conjunction with Hypepotamus, we're presenting the interviews in this article, and there's even more content and perspective on its website, Hypepotamus.com. It's our hope that together we can help spread the word about leaders who are hustling to develop new products, disrupt staid industries, drive change and make our city stand out. !!!Tallia Deljou, co-founder and president, Mavenly + Co. Operating out of Switchyards Downtown Club since 2016, Mavenly + Co. works to provide women with the tools and resources to design a career, and a life, with purpose. Co-founders Tallia Deljou (who serves as the company's president) and Kate Gremillion do this by providing one-on-one coaching and by hosting retreats, workshops and events that are crafted to empower women to confront challenges on the road to career satisfaction. What is your role at Mavenly? I am a positive psychologist. Essentially, I help women find what it is in their careers that really lights them up to give them some kind of path to follow when they might feel stuck in that first stage of figuring out what they really want to do. And how exactly would you describe positive psychology? My master's [degree] is in positive organizational psychology. And positive psychology as a field has done years of research on human flourishing and how to optimize our experiences specifically at work. So it's a lot of research in how to optimize our creativity, motivation, how to feel more positive emotion in our work, how to feel engaged with what we're doing. How did Mavenly + Co. come to be? We both met after traveling for a year to about 50 universities total as leadership consultants, realizing that so many of the women we were meeting with, especially in their senior year of college, were not having the conversations they needed to be having about what life after college looked like. You know, you just spent four years of your life and a lot of money at Harvard and you're getting straight A's and you're valedictorian and if someone asked you what you wanted to do, it was still the hardest question to answer. For us that was a big red flag and when it came to life design and career design. Why were these things that people weren't getting in college? Kate initially started writing about her experience, getting into her dream corporate job, hitting that wall, hating it but not knowing what to do next. Sharing her experience online brought a lot of readers to the blog, and people started sharing their own experiences. And then one thing led to the next and a podcast grew out of the blog. I ended up going to grad school. Researching, studying, learning the psychology behind all of it. Kate and I reconnected and decided to build out a curriculum that would lay the foundation for our coaching, for our workshops, for any of the events that we were gonna do. But really it came from seeing how many people struggle with the answer to that question, "What do you want to do?" What's it like working at Switchyards? We did a search for all the spaces in Atlanta and went to visit, I would say, a majority of them. Switchyards was one of the last ones Kate found. I think what grabbed her attention initially was the focus that they have here on helping you build your business and all the resources they provide. They're clearly doing a lot to keep the community strong and provide opportunities for you to connect with other people, for you to learn from other people, for you to teach other people. They're community focused, and their mission to help you build your business was what attracted us at first. And then once we came to see the space, it was a no-brainer for us. The culture is very clearly communicated the minute you step in. You know whether or not it's the place for you. What's the biggest obstacle you're currently trying to overcome? It's hard to think about long-term strategic planning when you're running a business and so involved with the day to day. We've been working on finding time to step away a bit so we can focus on the future. In terms of forecasting, what does the future hold for Mavenly? We want to be spending more time doing the corporate work, helping companies become better workplaces and work environments for millennial women. We recently came across a list of the top 100 workplaces for millennial women. Our goal is to help companies get on that list. Women face very different obstacles in their careers. Mavenly + Co. isn't really directly addressing the glass ceiling, but we want employers to understand that there are things they can do and should prioritize internally. Things like helping women build confidence in their skill set, clarifying their career path within an organization, giving them control and ownership over the work that they're doing, and a connection to the company's larger mission. !!!Zach Pousman, founder, Helpfully Helpfully is a startup that helps startups and helps large companies act like startups. It's a research and development consulting collective that founder Zach Pousman launched in 2015 after a career working in agencies and as a UX designer. Pousman assembles custom teams on an as-needed basis from a pool of more than 20 private contractors and currently operates out of the Ponce City Market-based co-working space, Industrious. What is Helpfully's elevator pitch? We custom-create teams around a particular kind of business problem. For a funded startup, we could staff product people, but we could also staff marketing people, or technology people. Maybe you need a UX person. Maybe you need just a few weeks of a graphic design team or of a branding person. The teams are very flexible based on the client's business needs. And we can do that every time because they're not my employees. How was the company born? I was looking for more impact. I had worked myself up the food chain at this agency and had gotten far away from the work. And I really wanted to have impact on both the strategic and the tactical . ... It was like, how do you build this semi-permeable membrane where people could both work for you in some full-time capacity, or at least you could have access to that person full-time, but then they would, obviously, have all kinds of side-projects and side-work? A lot of people that work with me, they have lots of jobs they're DJs or artists, etc. I love that, because it allows us to cross-pollinate. It allows us to tap into networks that I would not otherwise get access to. And it allows us to bring exactly the right team to a project on day one. Talk about your working space at Industrious. It was about wanting to be in the heart of the city wanting to be a part of the Beltline and the energy. Actually, when I started Helpfully, I was like: "We're gonna do it on the Beltline." All these pieces and parts came into focus at Industrious. What obstacle are you currently trying to overcome? One of the things that we are working hard on right now is getting teams to gel. Like, getting our team and a client team to work together faster. Say you have six months or a year to work together and build rapport and build communication styles from the bottom to the top. In the hot oven of a startup or startup-minded team, if you have time, all of that will just sort itself out. But because we want to help companies accelerate and get to market faster, we want to compress a year of hanging out into a week. We have some fun things we're designing, like on-boarding experiences, so we can be better at going faster. What are your plans for the future? One of the big things I want to do in 2017 is have more impact. When I say that, I don't mean just like, "Oh, I want to do projects that are more complex or expensive." But I want to do projects that go into more people's hands and that affect how those people live and think and work and shop. I want to earn space on the home screen of people's phones, and I haven't done that yet. That's a good goal, right? There's only 20 spaces. !!!Diamonde Williamson, co-founder, Blossom By day, Diamonde Williamson is the diversity coordinator for the business incubator TechSquare Labs, and in that role she helps create programs that empower people of color to build technology products. Williamson is also the co-founder of Blossom, a web-based TV network that is working to provide a customized content experience for women of color. Since February 2017, Blossom's six-person team has been operating from WeWork in Buckhead. How did Blossom come to be? I was working in television as a producer in reality TV, just to get my foot in the door. I used to really want a talk show like Oprah, [and] working in reality television was my way in. But that got old quick because I realized I was part of the problem with television nowadays. It's very driven by drama. And if my ultimate vision was to create empowering content, then I was in the wrong space. So I came up with Blossom, because I wanted women of color to have the space where we could have content that actually resonated. So you were done with reality television? I was fed up. I remember one specific incident there with one of the girls; she was older, she was from a reality show, and she was like, 'How did I do?" Like after a scene, she came and asked us how she did, and I'm like, "Why are you asking us how you did? You just acted a fool. Like are you proud of that?" Why did you decide to go with a co-working space? WeWork had a program called Mission Possible, where they award a free office space for six months to startups, and I was one of them. We just needed a place to get into so we could all meet and where we could also meet people. I really like to connect and to be around people. And that's the opportunity that co-working spaces provide you. What is your biggest challenge right now? Right now, the biggest challenge is actually having people understand the vision. Because I know we know, my team knows, the vision. My team knows the end goal. So it's tough to explain that over and over because we're only in phase three. Sometimes people can only see what's in front of them. But we know the goal. We didn't know we needed a Netflix until they gave it to us. What are your hopes for the future? I'm not here to fight what is. I'm just here to provide an alternative. We can be all obsessed with reality TV and caught up in their lives, but we're not learning anything from them. I'm just here to provide an alternative. Reality TV, I'm not trying to fight it, just trying to redefine what that means. !!!Javier Santana, co-founder, Launch Launch is a strategy-first digital agency based out of FlatironCity in Downtown. Javier Santana, his co-founder, David Preiss, and their team work to understand their clients' goals, industry and target audience to identify key opportunities in the digital space before they even "consider breaking out the crayons." What is the significance of your company's name? From concept to creation, we get your digital products "Launched" - like Matt Damon to Mars [in the 2015 feature film The Martian]. Well, what is the company's origin story? After three and a half years at Homedepot.com, I decided to go out on my own. As co-workers, Dave and I found we had a lot of similar ideas, so we started chatting about starting our own company. Once we decided on a UX and Creative-focused nano-agency, we Thelma & Louise'd it onto our new venture. It was only Dave and I for a while, so we quickly became the freelance tag team for some Atlanta agencies. For two years, we were white-labeled to help with pitches and projects for big-name clients. That was fun for a while, but we realized that we lost focus on our own dream and shifted gears. We wanted to create an agency that had good vibes with a cool work environment so we could attract intelligent people to do awesome work. We persuaded them to join us by showing them our space filled with suitcase boom boxes and a disco ball and treating them to Korean tacos (true story). Today, we have 17 team members and counting. Can you explain why you set up shop in FlatironCity? We never wanted a co-working space. We wanted something more than that something different. We needed to find a transitional space that didn't feel like we were in a short-term "rent-a-desk" type of environment. We didn't want what felt like a temporary home with terrible wall art, a bad coffee machine and a remote you need to put in a Ziploc bag, so we took our time to find the perfect space and found FlatironCity. What are your goals for Launch? We want to be the best company to work for in Atlanta, hands down. We'll accomplish this by hiring the best talent, which in turn helps us land excellent projects and clients. Within the next year or so, we will be looking at growing the team, with potential expansion to the West Coast. What's the biggest obstacle are you currently trying to overcome at Launch? Finding the right talent is always an obstacle. We want people who share our vision, are a good cultural fit and are in it for the long run. So when we recruit, Dave and I end up eating a lot of taco lunches - and travel with a disco ball." 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To make this piece happen, ''Creative Loafing'' teamed up with the folks from Hypepotamus, the leading startup and technology-focused publication in the Southeast. Working in conjunction with Hypepotamus, we're presenting the interviews in this article, and there's even more content and perspective on its website, [https://hypepotamus.com/people/creative-entrepreneurs/|Hypepotamus.com]. It's our hope that together we can help spread the word about leaders who are hustling to develop new products, disrupt staid industries, drive change and make our city stand out. {HTML()}Tallia Deljou, co-founder and president of Mavenly + Co., at Switchyards Downtown ClubJoeff Davis{HTML} !!!__Tallia Deljou, co-founder and president, Mavenly + Co.__ Operating out of [http://switchyards.com/|Switchyards Downtown Club] since 2016, [http://mavenly.co/|Mavenly + Co.] works to provide women with the tools and resources to design a career, and a life, with purpose. Co-founders Tallia Deljou (who serves as the company's president) and Kate Gremillion do this by providing one-on-one coaching and by hosting retreats, workshops and events that are crafted to empower women to confront challenges on the road to career satisfaction. __What is your role at Mavenly?__ I am a positive psychologist. Essentially, I help women find what it is in their careers that really lights them up to give them some kind of path to follow when they might feel stuck in that first stage of figuring out what they really want to do. __And how exactly would you describe positive psychology?__ My master's [[degree] is in positive organizational psychology. And positive psychology as a field has done years of research on human flourishing and how to optimize our experiences specifically at work. So it's a lot of research in how to optimize our creativity, motivation, how to feel more positive emotion in our work, how to feel engaged with what we're doing. __How did Mavenly + Co. come to be?__ We both met after traveling for a year to about 50 universities total as leadership consultants, realizing that so many of the women we were meeting with, especially in their senior year of college, were not having the conversations they needed to be having about what life after college looked like. You know, you just spent four years of your life and a lot of money at Harvard and you're getting straight A's and you're valedictorian and if someone asked you what you wanted to do, it was still the hardest question to answer. For us that was a big red flag and when it came to life design and career design. Why were these things that people weren't getting in college? Kate initially started writing about her experience, getting into her dream corporate job, hitting that wall, hating it but not knowing what to do next. Sharing her experience online brought a lot of readers to the blog, and people started sharing their own experiences. And then one thing led to the next and a podcast grew out of the blog. I ended up going to grad school. Researching, studying, learning the psychology behind all of it. Kate and I reconnected and decided to build out a curriculum that would lay the foundation for our coaching, for our workshops, for any of the events that we were gonna do. But really it came from seeing how many people struggle with the answer to that question, "What do you want to do?" __What's it like working at Switchyards?__ We did a search for all the spaces in Atlanta and went to visit, I would say, a majority of them. Switchyards was one of the last ones Kate found. I think what grabbed her attention initially was the focus that they have here on helping you build your business and all the resources they provide. They're clearly doing a lot to keep the community strong and provide opportunities for you to connect with other people, for you to learn from other people, for you to teach other people. They're community focused, and their mission to help you build your business was what attracted us at first. And then once we came to see the space, it was a no-brainer for us. The culture is very clearly communicated the minute you step in. You know whether or not it's the place for you. __What's the biggest obstacle you're currently trying to overcome?__ It's hard to think about long-term strategic planning when you're running a business and so involved with the day to day. We've been working on finding time to step away a bit so we can focus on the future. __In terms of forecasting, what does the future hold for Mavenly?__ We want to be spending more time doing the corporate work, helping companies become better workplaces and work environments for millennial women. We recently came across a list of the top 100 workplaces for millennial women. Our goal is to help companies get on that list. Women face very different obstacles in their careers. Mavenly + Co. isn't really directly addressing the glass ceiling, but we want employers to understand that there are things they can do and should prioritize internally. Things like helping women build confidence in their skill set, clarifying their career path within an organization, giving them control and ownership over the work that they're doing, and a connection to the company's larger mission. {HTML()}
Zach Pousman, founder of Helpfully, at the Industrious space at Ponce City MarketJoeff Davis{HTML} !!!__Zach Pousman, founder, Helpfully__ [http://www.helpfully.com/|Helpfully] is a startup that helps startups and helps large companies act like startups. It's a research and development consulting collective that founder Zach Pousman launched in 2015 after a career working in agencies and as a UX designer. Pousman assembles custom teams on an as-needed basis from a pool of more than 20 private contractors and currently operates out of the Ponce City Market-based co-working space, [https://www.industriousoffice.com/|Industrious]. __What is Helpfully's elevator pitch?__ We custom-create teams around a particular kind of business problem. For a funded startup, we could staff product people, but we could also staff marketing people, or technology people. Maybe you need a UX person. Maybe you need just a few weeks of a graphic design team or of a branding person. The teams are very flexible based on the client's business needs. And we can do that every time because they're not my employees. __How was the company born?__ I was looking for more impact. I had worked myself up the food chain at this agency and had gotten far away from the work. And I really wanted to have impact on both the strategic and the tactical . ... It was like, how do you build this semi-permeable membrane where people could both work for you in some full-time capacity, or at least you could have access to that person full-time, but then they would, obviously, have all kinds of side-projects and side-work? A lot of people that work with me, they have lots of jobs they're DJs or artists, etc. I love that, because it allows us to cross-pollinate. It allows us to tap into networks that I would not otherwise get access to. And it allows us to bring exactly the right team to a project on day one. __Talk about your working space at Industrious.__ It was about wanting to be in the heart of the city wanting to be a part of the Beltline and the energy. Actually, when I started Helpfully, I was like: "We're gonna do it on the Beltline." All these pieces and parts came into focus at Industrious. __What obstacle are you currently trying to overcome?__ One of the things that we are working hard on right now is getting teams to gel. Like, getting our team and a client team to work together faster. Say you have six months or a year to work together and build rapport and build communication styles from the bottom to the top. In the hot oven of a startup or startup-minded team, if you have time, all of that will just sort itself out. But because we want to help companies accelerate and get to market faster, we want to compress a year of hanging out into a week. We have some fun things we're designing, like on-boarding experiences, so we can be better at going faster. __What are your plans for the future?__ One of the big things I want to do in 2017 is have more impact. When I say that, I don't mean just like, "Oh, I want to do projects that are more complex or expensive." But I want to do projects that go into more people's hands and that affect how those people live and think and work and shop. I want to earn space on the home screen of people's phones, and I haven't done that yet. That's a good goal, right? There's only 20 spaces. {HTML()}
Blossom team members production manager Erika Smith (from left), founder Diamonde Williamson and creative producer Melani Carter outside their office at WeWork in BuckheadJoeff Davis{HTML} !!!__Diamonde Williamson, co-founder, Blossom__ By day, Diamonde Williamson is the diversity coordinator for the business incubator TechSquare Labs, and in that role she helps create programs that empower people of color to build technology products. Williamson is also the co-founder of [http://watchblossom.com/|Blossom], a web-based TV network that is working to provide a customized content experience for women of color. Since February 2017, Blossom's six-person team has been operating from [https://www.wework.com/l/atlanta--GA|WeWork] in Buckhead. __How did Blossom come to be?__ I was working in television as a producer in reality TV, just to get my foot in the door. I used to really want a talk show like Oprah, [[and] working in reality television was my way in. But that got old quick because I realized I was part of the problem with television nowadays. It's very driven by drama. And if my ultimate vision was to create empowering content, then I was in the wrong space. So I came up with Blossom, because I wanted women of color to have the space where we could have content that actually resonated. __So you were done with reality television?__ I was fed up. I remember one specific incident there with one of the girls; she was older, she was from a reality show, and she was like, 'How did I do?" Like after a scene, she came and asked us how she did, and I'm like, "Why are you asking us how you did? You just acted a fool. Like are you proud of that?" __Why did you decide to go with a co-working space?__ WeWork had a program called Mission Possible, where they award a free office space for six months to startups, and I was one of them. We just needed a place to get into so we could all meet and where we could also meet people. I really like to connect and to be around people. And that's the opportunity that co-working spaces provide you. __What is your biggest challenge right now?__ Right now, the biggest challenge is actually having people understand the vision. Because I know we know, my team knows, the vision. My team knows the end goal. So it's tough to explain that over and over because we're only in phase three. Sometimes people can only see what's in front of them. But we know the goal. We didn't know we needed a Netflix until they gave it to us. __What are your hopes for the future?__ I'm not here to fight what is. I'm just here to provide an alternative. We can be all obsessed with reality TV and caught up in their lives, but we're not learning anything from them. I'm just here to provide an alternative. Reality TV, I'm not trying to fight it, just trying to redefine what that means. {HTML()}
Javier Santana, co-founder of Launch, in his company’s space at the Flat Iron buildingJoeff Davis{HTML} !!!__Javier Santana, co-founder, Launch__ [https://www.launchjourney.com/|Launch] is a strategy-first digital agency based out of [http://www.flatironcity.com/|FlatironCity] in Downtown. Javier Santana, his co-founder, David Preiss, and their team work to understand their clients' goals, industry and target audience to identify key opportunities in the digital space before they even "consider breaking out the crayons." __What is the significance of your company's name?__ From concept to creation, we get your digital products "Launched" - like Matt Damon to Mars [[in the 2015 feature film ''The Martian'']. __Well, what is the company's origin story?__ After three and a half years at Homedepot.com, I decided to go out on my own. As co-workers, Dave and I found we had a lot of similar ideas, so we started chatting about starting our own company. Once we decided on a UX and Creative-focused nano-agency, we ''Thelma & Louise'''d it onto our new venture. It was only Dave and I for a while, so we quickly became the freelance tag team for some Atlanta agencies. For two years, we were white-labeled to help with pitches and projects for big-name clients. That was fun for a while, but we realized that we lost focus on our own dream and shifted gears. We wanted to create an agency that had good vibes with a cool work environment so we could attract intelligent people to do awesome work. We persuaded them to join us by showing them our space filled with suitcase boom boxes and a disco ball and treating them to Korean tacos (true story). Today, we have 17 team members and counting. __Can you explain why you set up shop in FlatironCity?__ We never wanted a co-working space. We wanted something more than that something different. We needed to find a transitional space that didn't feel like we were in a short-term "rent-a-desk" type of environment. We didn't want what felt like a temporary home with terrible wall art, a bad coffee machine and a remote you need to put in a Ziploc bag, so we took our time to find the perfect space and found FlatironCity. __What are your goals for Launch?__ We want to be the best company to work for in Atlanta, hands down. We'll accomplish this by hiring the best talent, which in turn helps us land excellent projects and clients. Within the next year or so, we will be looking at growing the team, with potential expansion to the West Coast. __What's the biggest obstacle are you currently trying to overcome at Launch?__ Finding the right talent is always an obstacle. We want people who share our vision, are a good cultural fit and are in it for the long run. So when we recruit, Dave and I end up eating a lot of taco lunches - and travel with a disco ball." 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Just take a quick survey of all the co-working spaces that have been sprouting up around town, housing this new generation of business owners from Downtown to the Old Fourth Ward, Midtown, Buckhead and beyond and you'll see that our city is in a prime position to claim the mantle of "Silicon Valley of the South." And it's not just the number of new companies that's worth taking stock of it's also the kinds of companies we're growing in the ATL. The entrepreneurs in our fair city are creating businesses that are infused with creative energy and built on a foundation of art and culture, as well as commerce. So much so, that we decided to turn the spotlight on a handful of locally based startups to learn about their organizations and the workspaces they've come to call home. To make this piece happen, Creative Loafing teamed up with the folks from Hypepotamus, the leading startup and technology-focused publication in the Southeast. Working in conjunction with Hypepotamus, we're presenting the interviews in this article, and there's even more content and perspective on its website, Hypepotamus.com. It's our hope that together we can help spread the word about leaders who are hustling to develop new products, disrupt staid industries, drive change and make our city stand out. !!!Tallia Deljou, co-founder and president, Mavenly + Co. Operating out of Switchyards Downtown Club since 2016, Mavenly + Co. works to provide women with the tools and resources to design a career, and a life, with purpose. Co-founders Tallia Deljou (who serves as the company's president) and Kate Gremillion do this by providing one-on-one coaching and by hosting retreats, workshops and events that are crafted to empower women to confront challenges on the road to career satisfaction. What is your role at Mavenly? I am a positive psychologist. Essentially, I help women find what it is in their careers that really lights them up to give them some kind of path to follow when they might feel stuck in that first stage of figuring out what they really want to do. And how exactly would you describe positive psychology? My master's [degree] is in positive organizational psychology. And positive psychology as a field has done years of research on human flourishing and how to optimize our experiences specifically at work. So it's a lot of research in how to optimize our creativity, motivation, how to feel more positive emotion in our work, how to feel engaged with what we're doing. How did Mavenly + Co. come to be? We both met after traveling for a year to about 50 universities total as leadership consultants, realizing that so many of the women we were meeting with, especially in their senior year of college, were not having the conversations they needed to be having about what life after college looked like. You know, you just spent four years of your life and a lot of money at Harvard and you're getting straight A's and you're valedictorian and if someone asked you what you wanted to do, it was still the hardest question to answer. For us that was a big red flag and when it came to life design and career design. Why were these things that people weren't getting in college? Kate initially started writing about her experience, getting into her dream corporate job, hitting that wall, hating it but not knowing what to do next. Sharing her experience online brought a lot of readers to the blog, and people started sharing their own experiences. And then one thing led to the next and a podcast grew out of the blog. I ended up going to grad school. Researching, studying, learning the psychology behind all of it. Kate and I reconnected and decided to build out a curriculum that would lay the foundation for our coaching, for our workshops, for any of the events that we were gonna do. But really it came from seeing how many people struggle with the answer to that question, "What do you want to do?" What's it like working at Switchyards? We did a search for all the spaces in Atlanta and went to visit, I would say, a majority of them. Switchyards was one of the last ones Kate found. I think what grabbed her attention initially was the focus that they have here on helping you build your business and all the resources they provide. They're clearly doing a lot to keep the community strong and provide opportunities for you to connect with other people, for you to learn from other people, for you to teach other people. They're community focused, and their mission to help you build your business was what attracted us at first. And then once we came to see the space, it was a no-brainer for us. The culture is very clearly communicated the minute you step in. You know whether or not it's the place for you. What's the biggest obstacle you're currently trying to overcome? It's hard to think about long-term strategic planning when you're running a business and so involved with the day to day. We've been working on finding time to step away a bit so we can focus on the future. In terms of forecasting, what does the future hold for Mavenly? We want to be spending more time doing the corporate work, helping companies become better workplaces and work environments for millennial women. We recently came across a list of the top 100 workplaces for millennial women. Our goal is to help companies get on that list. Women face very different obstacles in their careers. Mavenly + Co. isn't really directly addressing the glass ceiling, but we want employers to understand that there are things they can do and should prioritize internally. Things like helping women build confidence in their skill set, clarifying their career path within an organization, giving them control and ownership over the work that they're doing, and a connection to the company's larger mission. !!!Zach Pousman, founder, Helpfully Helpfully is a startup that helps startups and helps large companies act like startups. It's a research and development consulting collective that founder Zach Pousman launched in 2015 after a career working in agencies and as a UX designer. Pousman assembles custom teams on an as-needed basis from a pool of more than 20 private contractors and currently operates out of the Ponce City Market-based co-working space, Industrious. What is Helpfully's elevator pitch? We custom-create teams around a particular kind of business problem. For a funded startup, we could staff product people, but we could also staff marketing people, or technology people. Maybe you need a UX person. Maybe you need just a few weeks of a graphic design team or of a branding person. The teams are very flexible based on the client's business needs. And we can do that every time because they're not my employees. How was the company born? I was looking for more impact. I had worked myself up the food chain at this agency and had gotten far away from the work. And I really wanted to have impact on both the strategic and the tactical . ... It was like, how do you build this semi-permeable membrane where people could both work for you in some full-time capacity, or at least you could have access to that person full-time, but then they would, obviously, have all kinds of side-projects and side-work? A lot of people that work with me, they have lots of jobs they're DJs or artists, etc. I love that, because it allows us to cross-pollinate. It allows us to tap into networks that I would not otherwise get access to. And it allows us to bring exactly the right team to a project on day one. Talk about your working space at Industrious. It was about wanting to be in the heart of the city wanting to be a part of the Beltline and the energy. Actually, when I started Helpfully, I was like: "We're gonna do it on the Beltline." All these pieces and parts came into focus at Industrious. What obstacle are you currently trying to overcome? One of the things that we are working hard on right now is getting teams to gel. Like, getting our team and a client team to work together faster. Say you have six months or a year to work together and build rapport and build communication styles from the bottom to the top. In the hot oven of a startup or startup-minded team, if you have time, all of that will just sort itself out. But because we want to help companies accelerate and get to market faster, we want to compress a year of hanging out into a week. We have some fun things we're designing, like on-boarding experiences, so we can be better at going faster. What are your plans for the future? One of the big things I want to do in 2017 is have more impact. When I say that, I don't mean just like, "Oh, I want to do projects that are more complex or expensive." But I want to do projects that go into more people's hands and that affect how those people live and think and work and shop. I want to earn space on the home screen of people's phones, and I haven't done that yet. That's a good goal, right? There's only 20 spaces. !!!Diamonde Williamson, co-founder, Blossom By day, Diamonde Williamson is the diversity coordinator for the business incubator TechSquare Labs, and in that role she helps create programs that empower people of color to build technology products. Williamson is also the co-founder of Blossom, a web-based TV network that is working to provide a customized content experience for women of color. Since February 2017, Blossom's six-person team has been operating from WeWork in Buckhead. How did Blossom come to be? I was working in television as a producer in reality TV, just to get my foot in the door. I used to really want a talk show like Oprah, [and] working in reality television was my way in. But that got old quick because I realized I was part of the problem with television nowadays. It's very driven by drama. And if my ultimate vision was to create empowering content, then I was in the wrong space. So I came up with Blossom, because I wanted women of color to have the space where we could have content that actually resonated. So you were done with reality television? I was fed up. I remember one specific incident there with one of the girls; she was older, she was from a reality show, and she was like, 'How did I do?" Like after a scene, she came and asked us how she did, and I'm like, "Why are you asking us how you did? You just acted a fool. Like are you proud of that?" Why did you decide to go with a co-working space? WeWork had a program called Mission Possible, where they award a free office space for six months to startups, and I was one of them. We just needed a place to get into so we could all meet and where we could also meet people. I really like to connect and to be around people. And that's the opportunity that co-working spaces provide you. What is your biggest challenge right now? Right now, the biggest challenge is actually having people understand the vision. Because I know we know, my team knows, the vision. My team knows the end goal. So it's tough to explain that over and over because we're only in phase three. Sometimes people can only see what's in front of them. But we know the goal. We didn't know we needed a Netflix until they gave it to us. What are your hopes for the future? I'm not here to fight what is. I'm just here to provide an alternative. We can be all obsessed with reality TV and caught up in their lives, but we're not learning anything from them. I'm just here to provide an alternative. Reality TV, I'm not trying to fight it, just trying to redefine what that means. !!!Javier Santana, co-founder, Launch Launch is a strategy-first digital agency based out of FlatironCity in Downtown. Javier Santana, his co-founder, David Preiss, and their team work to understand their clients' goals, industry and target audience to identify key opportunities in the digital space before they even "consider breaking out the crayons." What is the significance of your company's name? From concept to creation, we get your digital products "Launched" - like Matt Damon to Mars [in the 2015 feature film The Martian]. Well, what is the company's origin story? After three and a half years at Homedepot.com, I decided to go out on my own. As co-workers, Dave and I found we had a lot of similar ideas, so we started chatting about starting our own company. Once we decided on a UX and Creative-focused nano-agency, we Thelma & Louise'd it onto our new venture. 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["tracker_field_contentWikiPage_text"]=> string(6526) "Leave it to the founders of Comingle, the Atlanta-based sex-tech startup, to turn the company's premature death into a cause for celebration. In case you don't recall, we covered their launch last year and awarded their creation, the Mod, a Best of Atlanta award for DIY sex-tech toy. The hacker-friendly vibrator built on an open-source platform they called the Dilduino harnessed their advocacy for DIY culture and sex-positive community building. But lo and behold, haters gon' hate. After raising close to $60,000 via crowd funding and turning their Candler Park basement into a makeshift dildo manufacturing hub, the patent trolls came out of the woodworks. Unable to fund a costly legal defense, the Georgia Tech alumni officially closed up shop earlier this year. In a February post on the startup's website titled "Sorry, the Mod is cancelled" co-founder Andrew Quitmeyer and the team outline the many obstacles they were up against: expensive international lawsuits, a squeeze on capital, and conservative business practices that made it hard out here for a sex-tech startup. Comingle was even kicked out of two startup incubators and an art exhibition after being invited. The business may have failed, but Comingle stands as a grand social experiment. So this weekend, they're having a party. Billed as the Comingle Funeral, Saturday's shindig at Mammal Gallery doubles as an art show, workshop, and yard sale with the promise that "NOBODY WILL LEAVE WITHOUT SILICONE IN THEIR HAND!" (see complete schedule of events via the link or below). Some of the proceeds will go to the next Ladyfest Atlanta. In advance of the event, I interviewed Quitmeyer via email to get more insight about the challenges Comingle faced, their place within the Atlanta startup community, and the future both for open-source sex tech and the company founders. You mentioned there being multiple factors for the demise of Comingle, but I'm most curious about this "big dumb lawsuit." Can you explain? There is an evil Texas billionaire who is a huge patent troll, and has been wreaking havoc in the Sex Tech industry by suing any small company making any kind of digital interactive toy. The billionaire actually just died, but the lawsuit still goes on. This lawsuit really choked our ability to raise funds or continue running the business . Two good articles about this whole dumb lawsuit that you can mine for more particulars: “'Teledildonics'” patent used to sue six nascent cybersex companies," and "Is a Patent Troll About to Kill the High-Tech Dildo Industry?" image-2 What were some of the other big challenges? A lot of resources normally available to many small businesses, aren't available once you are involved with sex in any way. For instance, even Mailchimp a nice friendly ATL company, won't let us use their services to send emails to our customers. But it's not their fault, if they do, Google will blacklist them, and the reason Google blacklists goes back to credit card companies exploiting people involved in sex industries for crazy amounts of money. It all goes back to greed and puritanical bullshit. Did Georgia's antiquated sex toy law ever present a real threat? Not directly, but it lead to the president of Georgia Tech kicking us out of the GT Startup accelerators that GT invited us to in the first place. Again, lots of doors slam shut once you are involved with sex. In some ways it's nice for us to use this to shine a light on this big problem that has been affecting people working in the sex industry forever. Hoimage-3w did Atlanta's tech scene receive Comingle? Were you all ever made to feel at home in the local tech community, or were you viewed as the curious outcasts? The tech scene was fine. We were very popular, but again, everyone wants to be friends with the cool, sexy rebels, but nobody actually wants to financially help them at all. We almost got saved by working with others in the local sex tech industry. Liberator actually offered us real support, but by then it was already too late So much of what Comingle was about as a startup was a push for freedom of creative expression and innovation — whether that be through advocating for sex-positive communities or experimenting with open-source technology. On that level, at least, I imagine you have to see this experience as a win-win regardless of the business outcome? We got in there and opened a lot of people's eyes, in both the sex and the tech worlds, to the horrors of greedy people trying to lock up information, while also showing the cool stuff that happens when communities share info and build cool stuff for the better good of us all. So I think we were a success if those ideas can stay out there! For potential startups that have the desire to follow in Comingle's footsteps, what kind of advice would you give? Find a good reliable source of funding, put a lot of effort into connecting with communities, and don't try to start a whole big international business in parallel with earning your PhD. What are you and your co-founders' future plans? I thought I heard something about you taking a professorship out of the country, but you'd never leave Atlanta would you? Sadly my Atlanta time is limited. I've accepted a cool professor job at the National University of Singapore. I move there in December. It will give me lots of good chances to continue my work building animal interaction devices with scientists in jungles. There's also a secret project coming up that will either be really big and crazy or just really big and dumb! If it happens you'll probably know it. For Craig and Paul, they are looking at a bunch of different opportunities now. So if you know anyone looking for the most brilliant coders and designers, they should try to snatch them up now. Is there anything we need to know about Saturday's celebration that isn't detailed on the Facebook invite? Looks like it's going to be a pretty thorough Comingle conference. There's a lot to it, so it might be confusing to people, but we are basically trying to sell off all our expensive art and mold making and electronics equipment so that local folks keep making weird stuff. You are also gonna get a rare chance to see the insides of a dildo factory. Just stop by Mammal, you are gonna have fun! image-4 Comingle Funeral: Sex Toy Art Show / Yard Sale / Workshop / Eulogy. 1-8 p.m. Sat., May 28. Mammal Gallery, 91 Broad St. S.W. 678-744-7095. www.mammalgallery.com." ["tracker_field_contentWikiPage_raw"]=> string(7186) "Leave it to the founders of Comingle, the Atlanta-based sex-tech startup, to turn the company's premature death into a cause for celebration. In case you don't recall, we [/atlanta/sex-toy-start-up-comingle-raises-stakes-with-the-mod/Content?oid=13618032|covered their launch] last year and awarded their creation, the Mod, a Best of Atlanta award for [/atlanta/best-diy-sex-tech-toy/BestOf?oid=15360962|DIY sex-tech toy]. The hacker-friendly vibrator built on an open-source platform they called the Dilduino harnessed their advocacy for DIY culture and sex-positive community building. But lo and behold, haters gon' hate. After raising close to $60,000 via crowd funding and turning their Candler Park basement into a makeshift dildo manufacturing hub, the patent trolls came out of the woodworks. Unable to fund a costly legal defense, the Georgia Tech alumni officially closed up shop earlier this year. In a February post on the startup's website titled [http://www.comingle.io/|"Sorry, the Mod is cancelled"] co-founder Andrew Quitmeyer and the team outline the many obstacles they were up against: expensive international lawsuits, a squeeze on capital, and conservative business practices that made it hard out here for a sex-tech startup. Comingle was even kicked out of two startup incubators and an art exhibition after being invited. The business may have failed, but Comingle stands as a grand social experiment. So this weekend, they're having a party. Billed as the [https://www.facebook.com/events/829220550516324/|Comingle Funeral], Saturday's shindig at Mammal Gallery doubles as an art show, workshop, and yard sale with the promise that "NOBODY WILL LEAVE WITHOUT SILICONE IN THEIR HAND!" (see complete schedule of events via the link or below). Some of the proceeds will go to the next [/atlanta/reclaiming-space/Content?oid=17207806|Ladyfest Atlanta]. In advance of the event, I interviewed Quitmeyer via email to get more insight about the challenges Comingle faced, their place within the Atlanta startup community, and the future both for open-source sex tech and the company founders. __You mentioned there being multiple factors for the demise of Comingle, but I'm most curious about this "big dumb lawsuit." Can you explain? __ There is an evil Texas billionaire who is a huge patent troll, and has been wreaking havoc in the Sex Tech industry by suing any small company making any kind of digital interactive toy. The billionaire actually just died, but the lawsuit still goes on. This lawsuit really choked our ability to raise funds or continue running the business (:sad:). Two good articles about this whole dumb lawsuit that you can mine for more particulars: [http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/teledildonics-patent-used-to-sue-six-nascent-cybersex-companies/|“'Teledildonics'” patent used to sue six nascent cybersex companies,"] and [http://www.vice.com/read/a-patent-troll-is-trying-to-stop-dildo-innovations-803|"Is a Patent Troll About to Kill the High-Tech Dildo Industry?"] [image-2] __What were some of the other big challenges? __ A lot of resources normally available to many small businesses, aren't available once you are involved with sex in any way. For instance, even Mailchimp a nice friendly ATL company, won't let us use their services to send emails to our customers. But it's not their fault, if they do, Google will blacklist them, and the reason Google blacklists goes back to credit card companies exploiting people involved in sex industries for crazy amounts of money. It all goes back to greed and puritanical bullshit. __Did Georgia's antiquated sex toy law ever present a real threat? __ Not directly, but it lead to the president of Georgia Tech kicking us out of the GT Startup accelerators that GT invited us to in the first place. Again, lots of doors slam shut once you are involved with sex. In some ways it's nice for us to use this to shine a light on this big problem that has been affecting people working in the sex industry forever. __Ho__[image-3]__w did Atlanta's tech scene receive Comingle? Were you all ever made to feel at home in the local tech community, or were you viewed as the curious outcasts? __ The tech scene was fine. We were very popular, but again, everyone wants to be friends with the cool, sexy rebels, but nobody actually wants to financially help them at all. We almost got saved by working with others in the local sex tech industry. [https://www.liberator.com/flagshipstore.html|Liberator] actually offered us real support, but by then it was already too late __So much of what Comingle was about as a startup was a push for freedom of creative expression and innovation — whether that be through advocating for sex-positive communities or experimenting with open-source technology. On that level, at least, I imagine you have to see this experience as a win-win regardless of the business outcome?__ We got in there and opened a lot of people's eyes, in both the sex and the tech worlds, to the horrors of greedy people trying to lock up information, while also showing the cool stuff that happens when communities share info and build cool stuff for the better good of us all. So I think we were a success if those ideas can stay out there! __For potential startups that have the desire to follow in Comingle's footsteps, what kind of advice would you give?__ Find a good reliable source of funding, put a lot of effort into connecting with communities, and don't try to start a whole big international business in parallel with [earning] your PhD. __What are you and your co-founders' future plans? I thought I heard something about you taking a professorship out of the country, but you'd never leave Atlanta would you?__ Sadly my Atlanta time is limited. I've accepted a cool professor job at the National University of Singapore. I move there in December. It will give me lots of good chances to continue my work building animal interaction devices with scientists in jungles. There's also a secret project coming up that will either be really big and crazy or just really big and dumb! If it happens you'll probably know it. 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Photo by Joeff Davis. VIBRATE HIGHER: Comingle co-founder Andrew Quitmeyer celebrates the success of their Indiegogo campaign in early 2015. 2020-08-03T21:00:04+00:00 072832_cover_sextoy1_6_44.png interview startup diy vibrator the mod sex tech sex positive patent troll open source liberator dilduino comingle andrew quitmeyer It goes down this Saturday at Mammal Gallery: "Nobody will leave without silicone in their hand!" Comingle 2016-05-27T19:45:00+00:00 Comingle, that beloved DIY dildo startup, is having a funeral and everybody's invited! ben.eason Ben Eason Rodney Carmichael 2016-05-27T19:45:00+00:00 Leave it to the founders of Comingle, the Atlanta-based sex-tech startup, to turn the company's premature death into a cause for celebration. In case you don't recall, we covered their launch last year and awarded their creation, the Mod, a Best of Atlanta award for DIY sex-tech toy. The hacker-friendly vibrator built on an open-source platform they called the Dilduino harnessed their advocacy for DIY culture and sex-positive community building. But lo and behold, haters gon' hate. After raising close to $60,000 via crowd funding and turning their Candler Park basement into a makeshift dildo manufacturing hub, the patent trolls came out of the woodworks. Unable to fund a costly legal defense, the Georgia Tech alumni officially closed up shop earlier this year. In a February post on the startup's website titled "Sorry, the Mod is cancelled" co-founder Andrew Quitmeyer and the team outline the many obstacles they were up against: expensive international lawsuits, a squeeze on capital, and conservative business practices that made it hard out here for a sex-tech startup. Comingle was even kicked out of two startup incubators and an art exhibition after being invited. The business may have failed, but Comingle stands as a grand social experiment. So this weekend, they're having a party. Billed as the Comingle Funeral, Saturday's shindig at Mammal Gallery doubles as an art show, workshop, and yard sale with the promise that "NOBODY WILL LEAVE WITHOUT SILICONE IN THEIR HAND!" (see complete schedule of events via the link or below). Some of the proceeds will go to the next Ladyfest Atlanta. In advance of the event, I interviewed Quitmeyer via email to get more insight about the challenges Comingle faced, their place within the Atlanta startup community, and the future both for open-source sex tech and the company founders. You mentioned there being multiple factors for the demise of Comingle, but I'm most curious about this "big dumb lawsuit." Can you explain? There is an evil Texas billionaire who is a huge patent troll, and has been wreaking havoc in the Sex Tech industry by suing any small company making any kind of digital interactive toy. The billionaire actually just died, but the lawsuit still goes on. This lawsuit really choked our ability to raise funds or continue running the business . Two good articles about this whole dumb lawsuit that you can mine for more particulars: “'Teledildonics'” patent used to sue six nascent cybersex companies," and "Is a Patent Troll About to Kill the High-Tech Dildo Industry?" image-2 What were some of the other big challenges? A lot of resources normally available to many small businesses, aren't available once you are involved with sex in any way. For instance, even Mailchimp a nice friendly ATL company, won't let us use their services to send emails to our customers. But it's not their fault, if they do, Google will blacklist them, and the reason Google blacklists goes back to credit card companies exploiting people involved in sex industries for crazy amounts of money. It all goes back to greed and puritanical bullshit. Did Georgia's antiquated sex toy law ever present a real threat? Not directly, but it lead to the president of Georgia Tech kicking us out of the GT Startup accelerators that GT invited us to in the first place. Again, lots of doors slam shut once you are involved with sex. In some ways it's nice for us to use this to shine a light on this big problem that has been affecting people working in the sex industry forever. Hoimage-3w did Atlanta's tech scene receive Comingle? Were you all ever made to feel at home in the local tech community, or were you viewed as the curious outcasts? The tech scene was fine. We were very popular, but again, everyone wants to be friends with the cool, sexy rebels, but nobody actually wants to financially help them at all. We almost got saved by working with others in the local sex tech industry. Liberator actually offered us real support, but by then it was already too late So much of what Comingle was about as a startup was a push for freedom of creative expression and innovation — whether that be through advocating for sex-positive communities or experimenting with open-source technology. On that level, at least, I imagine you have to see this experience as a win-win regardless of the business outcome? We got in there and opened a lot of people's eyes, in both the sex and the tech worlds, to the horrors of greedy people trying to lock up information, while also showing the cool stuff that happens when communities share info and build cool stuff for the better good of us all. So I think we were a success if those ideas can stay out there! For potential startups that have the desire to follow in Comingle's footsteps, what kind of advice would you give? Find a good reliable source of funding, put a lot of effort into connecting with communities, and don't try to start a whole big international business in parallel with earning your PhD. What are you and your co-founders' future plans? I thought I heard something about you taking a professorship out of the country, but you'd never leave Atlanta would you? Sadly my Atlanta time is limited. I've accepted a cool professor job at the National University of Singapore. I move there in December. It will give me lots of good chances to continue my work building animal interaction devices with scientists in jungles. There's also a secret project coming up that will either be really big and crazy or just really big and dumb! If it happens you'll probably know it. For Craig and Paul, they are looking at a bunch of different opportunities now. So if you know anyone looking for the most brilliant coders and designers, they should try to snatch them up now. Is there anything we need to know about Saturday's celebration that isn't detailed on the Facebook invite? Looks like it's going to be a pretty thorough Comingle conference. There's a lot to it, so it might be confusing to people, but we are basically trying to sell off all our expensive art and mold making and electronics equipment so that local folks keep making weird stuff. You are also gonna get a rare chance to see the insides of a dildo factory. Just stop by Mammal, you are gonna have fun! image-4 Comingle Funeral: Sex Toy Art Show / Yard Sale / Workshop / Eulogy. 1-8 p.m. Sat., May 28. Mammal Gallery, 91 Broad St. S.W. 678-744-7095. www.mammalgallery.com. 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