I bet a spend somewhere between 5 to 10% of my time listening to entrepreneurs give pitches, helping entrepreneurs create pitches, or providing suggestions for improvements to pitches. More often then not I point entrepreneurs to online resources such as the ATDC presentation template or a presentation that I gave at CapVenure on "Communicating With […]
Continue reading →"As soon as it's written, every business plan is wrong. Good entrepreneurs recognize this, and tend to build agile teams that can quickly respond to early market information in order to identify a real business model and minimize risk." Josh Koppleman In a great Yogi Berra wisdom for startups article. There are really two main […]
Continue reading →You may have heard that Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, publicly offered $250,000 for two years for one of the top twenty slots of suggested users that Twitter is now offering up as part of its service. Jason's offer was a publicity stunt. A game. He intended to attract media coverage. He is extremely […]
Continue reading →This is the third in a series of articles that discusses the stages of a startup. Previously the concept stage and seed stage were covered. Today the early stage is addressed. As one may can surmise from the intro, the early stage is the third stage of a technology startup. The key element being addressed […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I spent one of the most exciting 30 minutes of my week talking with Lila King and Karyn Lu of Echo. Echo is an art and civic journalism project that will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta. Karyn and Lila believe everyone has a fascinating story to tell. The interview […]
Continue reading →Busy time in the ATL. A brief roundup starting with three big happenings on Tuesday alone. Georgia Technology Summit Everybody that was anybody showed up for the biggest and best Georgia Technology Summit. The past two years I have written posts about the GTS entitlled "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly." This year I […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I gave a talk to the Georgia Tech Young Entrepreneurs Society. The vast majority of the students that are part of the group are trying to get a startup off the ground or already working on a startup. I decided to base my talk mostly around the "Quote of the Week" feature of this […]
Continue reading →Lost amid all the chatter here and on Hacker News responding to Paul Graham's "Can You Buy A Silicon Valley" was this little tidbit that flew by in the twitter stream. Last week the Georgia General Assembly favorably reported on a resolution (SR 166) creating the SITE (science, innovation, technology, and energy) to Grow Georgia […]
Continue reading →This is the second in a series of articles that discusses the stages of a startup. Previously the concept stage was covered. Today the seed stage is addressed. The seed stage is the second stage of a technology startup. The key element being addressed in the seed stage is product development. Building a prototype, demonstrating […]
Continue reading →Last week there was a little flare up in my twitterstream. Seem’s there is frustration and a difference of opinion on the terms used to define the various stages of a startup. Surprisingly, there is little literature on the topic (stepping up what I call FoG). So I thought I would offer a framework for […]
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