Alex Lavidge is a regular contributor at Startup Southerner living in Chattanooga, TN. Since moving back to East Tennessee nine years ago from Silicon Valley, he helped launch Knoxville Overground (Knoxville’s first entrepreneur community center), manage startup accelerators like GigTank in Chattanooga, and head business development for globally-recognized, investor-backed tech startups like Variable, Inc. Follow @alexlavidge on Twitter or on Facebook at http://facebook.com/alexlavidge.