The June ATDC Information Session will take place on Thursday June 21 from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the ATDC Board Room. Here are the directions. Here are the guidelines. 1. You must read about becoming an ATDC company on our Web site. The more you read the better. 2. You must RSVP via a […]
Continue reading →And so was the ATDC Entrepreneur Showcase, aka as The Billion Dollar Celebration. We set a record with over 600 registering to attend. The place was packed! It all went off with out a hitch due to Melissa Zbeeb. Jeff Haynie beat me to the punch on writing about the event as he was live […]
Continue reading →This may seem old school but I have been doing a little work on exactly what an entrepreneur that is a target for ATDC looks like. So happens that there was a bit of a online debate going on about the subject. I challenged Paul Kedrosky to come up with some numbers to back his […]
Continue reading →Charles Ross and I have been talking with Jason Caplain from Southern Captial Ventures about his open call to Atlanta Entrepreneurs to sit down with him for 15 minutes on May 17. The end result of those discussions is that the sessions are being held at the ATDC. If you have an interest in the […]
Continue reading →Since 1999 ATDC companies have raised over $1 billion in venture capital. Last year alone ATDC companies raised $150 million including the two largest and 10 of the top 25 venture deals in the state. Not shabby. In recognition of all this we are theming the annual ATDC Entrepreneur Showcase the “One Billion Dollar Celebration”. […]
Continue reading →ATDC graduate company CardioMEMS, a medical device maker, filed an updated S1 last week setting a range of $12 – $14 for its six million share offering. CardioMEMS will trade on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol “SENS.”
Continue reading →Tomorrow at noon we are having a panel discussion in the ATDC 2nd floor community room (directions) on the role that public relations plays in an effective marketing strategy for startups. Should be an interesting discussion about exactly what encompasses public relations today with user generated content taking the command and control one directional aspect […]
Continue reading →Monica Doss of CED came down to Georgia last week to speak at the TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs society. I had two big takeaways from her presentation. One is that they have the same seed funding issue in the RTP that seems to exist in Atlanta. I think we might have more bubbling here to solve the […]
Continue reading →I am going to try having information sessions for entrepreneurs that express an interest in joining the ATDC. These will be designed to inform potential members of the services and programs that ATDC provides. There will be time for ample Q&A and I intend to get at least one CEO from a current ATDC meeting […]
Continue reading →I happened to run into Stephen Fleming last night, and we started talking a bit about early stage incubators. One of the things that Stephen likes to say is that if the ATDC is an incubator then VentureLab is pre-natal care. And while it is not a requirement that an ATDC company has a connection […]
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