So I was talking to an Atlanta based venture capitalist type. Told me that they were putting together the paperwork to raise their next fund. Going to be twice the size. Good news. The even better news? It is going to include provisions for seed investments in the $250k – $500k range. Another Atlanta VC […]
Continue reading →So Michael Arrington walks in uninvited to a dinner party of a bunch of powerful angel investors and they all shut up and tell him to go away. He starts screaming collusion in a quite successful attempt to draw page views. Good for him. Well a bunch of angel investors got together over dinner at […]
Continue reading →Last night I sat at the monthly Atlanta Technology Angels I sat on a panel with Mike Dowdle of Generation Station, Merrick Furst of Profounder, Wayt King of Shotput Ventures, Glenn McGonnigle of TechOperators. Fine group of men. Our topic for the evening was “where are the fundable deals in Atlanta?” I had two points that I wanted […]
Continue reading →Sometime toward the end of the first quarter the deal dam broke. Lots of activity. Lots of term sheets. It seemed like these deals had something in common. There seemed to be a trend. So I did a little math. While I am by no means the MoneyTree I counted up 15 deals that had […]
Continue reading →Well the folks over at TechDrawl are sure stirring things up these days. An article about the golden age of consumer focused startups morphing into a conversation about a constitutional amendment on the ballot in the fall concerning non-competes. Oh my! But somewhere buried in those comments is this little gem by Wayt King: I […]
Continue reading →Venture Atlanta is Georgia's largest technology investor conference. It connects emerging Georgia technology companies with top-tier angels, bankers, and venture capitalists. This year the conference is taking place at the Georgia Aquarium on October 12th and 13th. Venture Atlanta is currently seeking technology businesses in all stages of growth that are currently raising or […]
Continue reading →So TechDrawl is saying let’s somehow build a new investor orientation that does not exist in Atlanta. It is my point of view that doing this is going to take a bit of time to correct and entrepreneurs should focus on building their businesses. At some point this is essentially the local investors don’t get […]
Continue reading →So over on TechDrawl Dave Walters has a post that is stirring up the restless yet once again. Toward the end Dave poses a series of questions. So the real question is: when the revolution happens, will you help push it forward or will you defend the old school? What side of history will you […]
Continue reading →CapVenture is a training program that is put on by ATDC and TAG that is in its third year. The purpose of the program is to prepare companies seeking their first round of institutional funding to go out and get it. The programming takes place for six Tuesday evenings beginning on August 17. The final […]
Continue reading →Back in March I wrote about the Angel Investor Tax Credit Bill. Well Georgia HB 1001 has morphed into Georgia HB 1069. The bill has passed both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate. It now sits on the Governor’s desk. It has been sitting there for a bit. Governor Perdue has until […]
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