The Weekly Collective

Cryptonetworks Will Challenge Infrastructure Monopolies
Pocket Network • Michael O'Rourke of Tampa-based Pocket Network explores how cryptonetwork developments provide a path to challenge not only AWS and Azure as infrastructure monopolies, but potentially any industry that benefits from economies of scale, offering a new way to coordinate humans and global investments for the public good.

Rise of the Rest Class of 2019
Revolution • Earlier this month, Steve Case and the Revolution team hit the road for the eighth Rise of the Rest Road Trip, bringing the bus to Orlando, Florida’s Space Coast, Tampa Bay, Miami, and San Juan, Puerto Rico. They asked winners in each city to tell them more about their companies, provide advice to fellow entrepreneurs, and share a little more about themselves. Erik Maltais of IMMERTEC, winner of the Tampa Bay ROTR8 Pitch Competition, shares, "Tampa is a city of talented individuals focused on building out this startup ecosystem."

GoZone Wifi CEO's Passion Project Brings Free Wifi to The Edge District
St. Pete Catalyst • GoZone WiFi, a startup headquartered in St. Petersburg, has quietly launched free WiFi service throughout St. Petersburg’s Edge District. The initiative gives visitors to the district easy access to WiFi while allowing businesses to learn more about their customers and have the ability to send coupons and other offers so customers make return visits.

Company: Admiral

Elevator Pitch: A revenue platform helping digital publishers grow by improving visitor relationships through adblock recovery, paid subscriptions, privacy consent, and more.

Position: Software Engineer

Position Highlights: Admiral is looking for a mid-level or senior-level engineer to help expand their innovative platform which bridges the gap between publishers and their audiences. The Software Engineer will work on mature, well-maintained backend and frontend systems built using Go microservices and React/Javascript client applications and will have an important mission: Build a more balanced content ecosystem on the web, with better privacy controls and more equitable and long lasting relationships between content creators and their audiences.

Apply Here

A Closer Look at The Southeast Capital Landscape
Typically when seeking funding, founders will look to traditional tech hubs like New York or San Fransisco. But as the startup world changes rapidly, capital resources are becoming more available in growing regions. Cue the Southeast region. Embarc Collective, in collaboration with ModernCapital, Launch Tennessee and HQ1, developed a comprehensive resource of available capital resources across the Southeast with data aggregated from PwC MoneyTree Reports, BIP Capital, and Crunchbase. This project also includes insights about capital growth in this region as well as capital resources by industry and stage from accelerator to private equity.

A How-To Guide to Product-Market Fit
It's easy to create a product you think the market will love, but does the market actually need or want your product? Gannon Hall, Former Product Head of Google Maps & Local Search, shares the steps founders can take to assess market potential. In this product-market fit guide, he starts with the importance of understanding customer needs and finishes with tactical approaches you can take to ensure your product maintains product-market fit.