A few days ago David C wrote a post about Quantifying Startup Quantity. I disagree a bit with the basic premise of the article. More companies is not necessarily better when it comes to growing a startup ecosystem or measuring its success. It might be more fun for lots of people that are playing house. Fun […]
Continue reading →Lighter Capital recently published a guide on how to choose the best funding path for your startup. It is pretty informative and outlines three funding paths that are potentially open for a tech startup. I find the guide particularly useful as less then 1% of all companies attract venture funding and it seems that nearly […]
Continue reading →After my post last week on Atlanta cracking the top ten in terms of regional startup capital first fundings Adam Harrell of Startup Atlanta reached out to me with other signs of the Atlanta startup ecosystem gaining traction and shared his 2015 State of the Atlanta Startup Ecosystem with me. It is embedded below. Most […]
Continue reading →It may seem that I am being master obvious but all startups need to start small. More often than not startups want to start big. Creating a very broad product that addresses the needs of a large market with a diverse set of needs. Doing this as a startup is a failing strategy. Two things […]
Continue reading →For about a dozen years off and on during my career I had a boss that was pretty much on the same thought plane as me. We got along well. Thought the same way about business and typically could get things done. From time to time I would walk into his office with some new […]
Continue reading →Highly respected venture capitalist Bill Gurley sounded the alarm about a month ago in an interview in the Wall Street Journal about the amount of risk VCs and startup employees are taking on these days. Very specifically he is worried about burn rates. To quote: And I guarantee you two things: One, the average burn […]
Continue reading →Last week Fred Wilson posted about this great interview of Marc Andreesson at Stanford Business School. Being a business school there were a lot of soon to be minted MBAs in the room and the interview is conducted by one of them. The whole interview is quite entertaining. At about the 4:30 mark Marc gets […]
Continue reading →Call him a contrarian. Raj Parikh moved from San Francisco to Atlanta to start a consumer technology company. Seems a little crazy. He has his reasons and is blogging about his experience over on From Atlanta With Love. His most recent post ponders whether to stay in Atlanta or move back to SF. While Raj talks about […]
Continue reading →The news broke yesterday that SalesLoft raised $800k from Tom Noonan. Back in January I took Kyle Porter up on his call for an entrepreneur in residence at the SalesLoft office. What this really meant is that I had a great place to sit in Atlanta Tech Village at no cost and from time to […]
Continue reading →Paul Judge has put together a 67 slide presentation on the Atlanta startup scene that was originally published on Pando. Solid effort that gives anyone that wants to know what is happening in Atlanta around technology startups many good places to start.
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