In the guest chair:
With Johnson Cook
CEO of Voxa, Johnson Cook, joined us in the studio today to talk all things technology and startups.
Voxa is a productivity tool that acts a personal assistant for your #sales team, automating #CRM data entry with seamless integration between email and Salesforce.com
Johnson wears a variety of hats in the Atlanta tech community. In addition to being CEO of Voxa, he is also a co-founder of the Atlanta Tech Village, and investor at Atlanta Ventures, and President of the Entrepreneurs Organization, Atlanta (EO).
Notable Quotes:
“Atlanta mayor, Kasim Reed, calls federal lawsuit over the new Tyler Perry Studio at Fort McPherson ‘total garbage’.”-Dana Barrett
“I’m in a war with my email and it has won.”-Dana Barrett
“We set the goal to be the fastest growing Atlanta startup around when we started under a year ago.”-Johnson Cook
“The tech world has become really product focused but they aren’t really skilled in building a business.”-Johnson Cook
“The money goes where the deals are… it’s very simple.”-Johnson Cook
“Atlanta is easily going to be a top 10 startup city in the next five years.”-Johnson Cook
“It’s all about who you know.”-Dana Barrett
“Raising money is like cliff jumping. You have to run for the edge. You have to commit to it or you’ll hit the rocks.”-Johnson Cook
In the headlines:
- Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says the lawsuit over the Tyler Perry Fort Mac deal is “total garbage”.
- Georgia is the #6 on “The most expensive state to operate a motor vehicle”.
- Amazon is now fighting with both Hachette publishers and Disney – which side are you on – and can you join the fight?
- Some early adopters of a young online banking company got locked out of their bank accounts for 24 hours. Like locked out. Totally. Can’t even use your debit card.
- And a Texas billionaire just made $800 million dollars in one day. Must be nice.
Other stuff:
- Join us on the second Monday of every month at 7:30PM for The Dana Barrett Show Business Book Club. Each month we’ll be discussing a different business book over some yummy (complimentary) appetizers at South City Kitchen Vinings. This month’s book is: ESSENTIALISM: THE DISCIPLINED PURSUIT OF LESS by Greg McKeown – and the meeting is Monday September 8th. Everyone is welcome – but we only have room for 20, so register now!
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