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Start It Up Episode 32: Angel Summit To Bring Investors to Chattanooga

Leslie Jump is the Founder of Startup Angels, an organization that promotes angel investing in cities throughout the U.S.  As part of this mission, Leslie has also created an annual conference called The Angel Summit.  In October, the third Angel Summit will be held in Chattanooga, TN.  Previous gatherings were held in Dallas and Madrid.

On this week's episode, Leslie will explain why angel investors are so crucial to sustaining a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. In today's startup world, founders and investors need not come from Silicon Valley.  Both money and talent can be found in abundance in small and medium sized cities everywhere.

Susanne Burnham was the Executive Producer of Start it Up from October of 2014 to August of 2015. She is a graduate of The Company Lab’s Accelerator. She is the Founder and CEO of Click Click Boom, a graduate of the University of Georgia and a U.S. Army Veteran (Desert Storm). She launched her career in the mobile tech industry in 2009, and in 2012 relocated to Chattanooga because of EPB’s fiber optic network and to participate in the City’s growth as a tech and startup hub.
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