I’m not really sure where I first heard about Startup Weekend. It could have been TechCrunch, or perhaps Brad Feld. Regardless, when I heard about it I decided that Atlanta needed to host one to foster its startup community. I reached out to Andrew Hyde, the guy that came up with the Startup Weekend concept, […]
Continue reading →The expected announcement of layoffs happened at EarthLink yesterday. My estimate on the cuts turned out to be a little conservative. I have relationships with the lots of folks over there and they constitute a good share of readers of FoG. With that in mind, here are ten tips about life after EarthLink. 1. There […]
Continue reading →The second rev of Capital Connections is gearing up for the evening of August 29. The goal of Capital Connection is simply to provide an environment where early stage entrepreneurs can make connections with other entrepreneurs and meet early-stage investors. Put together by the friendly folks over at Startup Lounge, this mixer is expected to […]
Continue reading →Blake Purdue and Guy Tessler made a few comments on my Seeing Leadership post that deserve further discussion. The New Media Exchange was one of the more energetic pitch events that I have recently been to with a good pace, plenty of breaks, and hordes of interested potential strategic investors. AOL, Cox, Microsoft, and Turner […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I spent a few hours with an entrepreneur discussing the best fundraising strategy for his company. Great conversation. Generally there seems to be a lots of different thoughts on that this days. Marc Andreessen pretty much lands on taking as much as you can get. Stephen Fleming and Dick Costolo (both very worthy reads […]
Continue reading →Not to long ago there was a little chatter about what Atlanta needs to do to become a world-class technology city. My $.02 on the subject was that we needed to see corporate leadership from the tech titans. And I am seeing a little leadership, in to many, an unlikely area. Tomorrow and Thursday Turner, […]
Continue reading →Dharmesh Shah, who among other things has a nice online community for entrepreneurs called OnStartups, wrote in the forums there the other day “I rarely take this strong of a stand on anything, but I think trying to completely outsource the development for an early stage startup is a recipe for failure. You really need […]
Continue reading →This fall ATDC, along with our friends at TAG, is putting on a unique training program called CapVenture that is designed to educate and equip early stage technology companies to go out and get their first institutional round of funding. You can find more details on the program as well as apply at the CapVenture […]
Continue reading →Last week PeachSeedz announced that Morris, Manning, & Martin is having a seminar about the “Legal Issues for Emerging Business Uses of Social Networking and Consumer Generated Media”. The event is July 11 at 11:45 am. You can register here.
Continue reading →Atlanta Seed Stage Second Office, or AS3O for short, is an informal group of entrepreneurs, freelancers, renegade venture capitalists, creative types, and developers, that get together every so often. Their next gathering is on Friday starting at 11:00 am at Octane, a very happening (West Egg is another) virtual coworking kind of place. If you […]
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