Well the folks over at TechDrawl are sure stirring things up these days. An article about the golden age of consumer focused startups morphing into a conversation about a constitutional amendment on the ballot in the fall concerning non-competes. Oh my! But somewhere buried in those comments is this little gem by Wayt King: I […]
Continue reading →One of my favorite blogs to read these days is 10,000 Startup Hours. Quick and easy reads with tidbits of wisdom. There was a recent story on 10,000 that told about a conversation that David had eavesdropped on between a potential client and a web developer. David concluded his post with "If you outsource […]
Continue reading →From Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: non·start·er noun Date: 1902 1 : one that does not start 2 : someone or something that is not productive or effective I have been thinking of this word for sometime. I see two different types of startups that are nonstarters on an almost daily basis. The first is a team […]
Continue reading →ReadWriteStart had a nice article the other on the downside to bootstrapping. But better than the article was a comment by Micah Wedemeyer, the founder of DoLeaf and a part of the dev team over at BLiNQ Media. The money quote: So…the downside to bootstrapping is that it makes it hard to get […]
Continue reading →So this little meme about how different things are in Atlanta than other parts of the startup world has cropped up again. I don't think so much. And instead of pontificating a point of view I will tell you a real story that a few people are familiar with, the company conceived at Atlanta Startup […]
Continue reading →Last month I had a little sit down with one of my advisors. The message was to focus. Well I have more than one advisor and recently caught up with another one. Their message, "it's not time to focus just yet, you can keep those plates in the air for a little while until one […]
Continue reading →So TechDrawl is saying let’s somehow build a new investor orientation that does not exist in Atlanta. It is my point of view that doing this is going to take a bit of time to correct and entrepreneurs should focus on building their businesses. At some point this is essentially the local investors don’t get […]
Continue reading →So over on TechDrawl Dave Walters has a post that is stirring up the restless yet once again. Toward the end Dave poses a series of questions. So the real question is: when the revolution happens, will you help push it forward or will you defend the old school? What side of history will you […]
Continue reading →It has been quite some time since I have seen or heard from Sky Dayton when somehow I stumbled across an episode of Jason Calacanis' This Week in Startups where Sky was interviewed. When it comes to all things Internet Sky is one smart cookie with the perspective of someone that has been involved in […]
Continue reading →Yesterday entrepreneur turned VC Mark Suster had a quite interesting post on why distributed teams are less effective. Mark goes as far to say he won't fund a startup without the CEO, VP Products, and CTO in the same locale. I agree. And then some. It's no big secret that I have been working on […]
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