AtlantTech reported today that Twitpay has raised an undisclosed round of funding. Twitpay, the second Startup Weekend Atlanta company to secure seed captial (Skribit being the first), is a simple way to send payments via Twitter. The service is powered on the backend by Amazon Payments. Twitpay went live two weeks ago. Twitpay has been […]
Continue reading →Busy time in the ATL. A brief roundup starting with three big happenings on Tuesday alone. Georgia Technology Summit Everybody that was anybody showed up for the biggest and best Georgia Technology Summit. The past two years I have written posts about the GTS entitlled "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly." This year I […]
Continue reading →The venture capital community was very well represented at Startup Riot last week. Partners from CEO Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, TechOperators and Value Plus Ventures were all in attendance. In addition partners from seed stage investing firms Imlay Investments, Profounder, Seraph Group, and Shotput Ventures were on hand. Nine firms. Five of which are […]
Continue reading →Yesterday The New York Times published an interesting piece entitled "Angels Flee From Tech Start-ups" that profiled angels and entrepreneurs across the country. While the title nicely sums up the article, it's not exactly the story I am hearing in Tech Square. To provide a more specific understanding of what's happening with angels in Atlanta, […]
Continue reading →With timing that escapes my marketing sense Sanjay Parekh announced on twitter last Thursday the formation of Shotput Ventures. Shotput Ventures is following the much discussed Y-Combinator model. They intend to be a technology startup accelerator fund that focuses on capital-light web services companies and assist during the concept phase of startup development. Shotput […]
Continue reading →You may have heard of the TAG/GRA Business Launch Competition. That little thing where the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) join forces (along with the help of ATDC) to support the creation and growth of new startups in Georgia via a competition. Where the contest winner receives a $100,000 cash […]
Continue reading →It's been way too long between blog posts for me. It's not that I don't have things to write about. I do. I have just been too busy. One of the things that I have been busy with is helping out with Skribit. Well Georgia Tech announced today that Paul Stamatiou is going to be […]
Continue reading →The downturn sure is making for interesting times. Here at FoG it started with the gloom of the Sequoia meeting notes and presentation of doom. Followed by the more upbeat link to Paul Graham's essay on "Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy." Interesting times. And I have a pretty interesting job. A […]
Continue reading →Back in July Jason Calacanis said he was retiring from blogging and starting a private mailing list. Well the retirement turns out to be a bit Bret Favre style. Over the weekend he sent out an email entitled “(The) Startup Depression” which drew a great deal of attention and led to him posting the content […]
Continue reading →The Atlanta Technology Angels are sponsoring a "Power of Angel Investing" seminar next Tuesday from 12 – 5. The topic of this seminar is "Doing the Deal: Term Sheet Workshop." The seminar is going to cover term sheet deal terms and feature a panel including Jeff Leavitt, Melanie Leeth, and Clark Gilder. I intend to […]
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