Last night I braved the weather and traffic to attend the GigaOm Mobility Meetup at Opera (partially owned by tech entreprenuer Dave Williams). Maybe about a third or so of the 600 registered attendees managed to make the event and those that decided to stay dry missed a good one. While the show started late and […]
Continue reading →Last night I had the honor of presenting at the Atlanta Startup Village Meetup. It was quite the rockin' affair. About 250 people registered, 175 or so showed up and Monday Night Brewing suds were on tap. I was joined at the front of the room by VillageDefense which I regret to say I don't fully understand […]
Continue reading →Nice video from the Metro Atlanta Chamber highlighting the 2013 ATDC graduate companies and the strategic benefits of that technology hub. Great to see companies like BrightWhistle, KontrolFreek, PatientCo, and Urjanet, which I helped in some way, growing up. While Atlanta Tech Village seems to be getting all the attention these days ATDC continues […]
Continue reading →As reported by Atlanta Business Cronicle staff writer Urvaksh Karkaria nCrowd is moving to Atlanta Tech Village. This move came about shortly after David Cummings announced his plans for the Village. I reached out to him, told him we were about to sign a lease, and wanted to see if there were a possibility for […]
Continue reading →A little behind the times here but David Cummings seems to be the frist of the three guys I wrote about in my last post to make his next move. David is starting Atlanta Tech Village by throwing down $12.5 million of his gain from the sale of Pardot to ExactTarget. With his investment and […]
Continue reading →Flashpoint, Georiga Tech's accelerator program is now accepting applications for its third cohort to begin in January, 2013. Of the 30 teams that participated in the first two Flashpoint cohorts, 28 continue to develop. The first cohort received over $8 million in follow on funding in six months. The second cohort, just finishing, already has […]
Continue reading →Earlier this week Flashpoint, Georgia Tech's new startup accelerator, held it first ever demo day. While really a bit more of a pitch day, I only saw one demo, the teams did a great job. Locally David Cummings has a nice summary of the companies that pitched and TechCrunch even covered the event. While in […]
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Continue reading →So I have known Paul Stamatiou for nearly four years now. We met at Atlanta Startup Weekend in 2007. He pitched Skribit at that event and my thought when he did so was great idea, we can build it, not so sure about the market. The market turned out to be small. About a year […]
Continue reading →On Monday the White House announced the Startup America Partnership. Startup America is a White House initiative to celebrate, inspire, and accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout America. Below is a nice video of Austan Goolsbee the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers explaining the program. About the only criticism I have about the program is the expression […]
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