On Tuesday night at the Ferst Center for the Arts the awards ceremony for the Georgia Tech Reseach & Innovation Conference (GTRIC) was held. The winner of the 2011 Innovation Competition was Craig Tashman of LiquidText. GTRIC brings together 400 Georiga Tech graduate students presenting their research to the Tech community. The event gives graduate students the opportunity to […]
Continue reading →ATDC is looking to hire an up and coming marketing guru to manage and lead its marketing efforts. ATDC currently employs an online content marketing strategy. If you are hired you will be heavily focused on planning, developing, and managing website content. You will manage ATDC's email and social media marketing programs, create print marketing material and […]
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 […]
Continue reading →So ATDC can be quite the interesting place. I was walking down the hall yesterday when I noticed a lady that looked somewhat familiar standing in the reception area. I said hello and introduced myself. Turns out to be Jennifer 8. Lee. That is really her name. We struck up a conversation. She was […]
Continue reading →In a somewhat historic event Bud Peterson president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Michael Adams president of the University of Georgia came together on Monday to officially launch ATDC's new presence in Gwinnett County. ATDC, a Georgia Tech based technology business accelerator has established a presence on the University of Georgia's Gwinnett Campus. Roll […]
Continue reading →Not the same as the old boss. She’s a woman. She has a bio background. I would not read too much into that. She was the best candidate. Diversity is good. Her first name is Nina. Last name is Sawczuk. She speaks startup. She speaks business. I like her. Nina started working at ATDC last […]
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 →Here in the heart of the New South folks don’t talk about Pepsi much. When I first moved to Atlanta from the NYC area I walked into Stone Soup and much to my surprise they did not even stock the stuff. Over on North Ave our KO friends will not mention the company by name. […]
Continue reading →In six days ATDC is going to host its Startup Showcase and 30th year celebration. I reckon those 30 years make ATDC one of the oldest startup incubators going. Not only is ATDC old, it's good, having recently been named by Forbes as one of 10 technology incubators that are changing the world. It has […]
Continue reading →When David Sung left ATDC for the greener pastures of the private sector I was once again charged with leading the process of screening the companies that applied to the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Yesterday TAG announced the final four. They are: Khush, intelligent music applications for mobile phones; SolidFire, a next-generation storage platform for […]
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