This week I was interviewed for an upcoming article in the Atlanta Business Chronicle on the subject of how innovation is driving economic development (job growth in layman’s terms) and what needs to be done to continue to attract and foster startup companies. This led me to think about the subject a bit and this […]
Continue reading →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 →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 […]
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Continue reading →This a a guest post by Nina Sawczuk, general manager of ATDC and co-director of Flashpoint. It is cross posted from atdc.org. Georgia Tech is proud to present Flashpoint, a startup accelerator program launching in August 2011. Flashpoint will provide mentorship, shared learning, office space, and an an environment for accelerated scalable business model search. Selected […]
Continue reading →If you have been following along you probably understand that it has been my intent for some time to leave ATDC and get back into a startup. That time has come. After four plus years of a totally awesome time I have decided to step away from my role as a startup catalyst and resign […]
Continue reading →Yesterday was a big day at the ATDC Startup Showcase. First and foremost nine companies graduated from ATDC. Not to take anything away from the success of these amazing companies and entrepreneurs but in the big scheme of things that may have been the smaller story. The bigger story is that Georgia Tech announced that they […]
Continue reading →It’s that time of year again. It happens every Spring. It’s time for the atdc Startup Showcase. The Startup Showcase is an annual event on the Georgia technology startup scene that draws about 500 or so technology leaders, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs to see what is happening at one of the world’s leading technology […]
Continue reading →Earlier this week I wrote an article about the need for some entity to step up and solve the lack of venture capital issue in Atlanta which led Mike Blake of StartupLounge to ask for a little clarification in the comments. I gave him a little there. Here's more. Shortly after posting I recevieved an […]
Continue reading →Last week while I was vacationing Stephen Fleming alerted the world to a new article by Steve Blank entitled "One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor, Michigan." It's an article that Steve wrote about a few days he spent in the home town of the champions of the West. I suspect that if some […]
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