On Monday night 10 of my old partners in crime from MindSpring and EarthLink went out to the Ted to watch the Braves take on the Red Sox. The place was electric. Schilling was on the mound for Boston. He got shelled. Pulled after 82 pitches, which was about the speed of his fastball. My […]
Continue reading →Today the ATDC is officially launching its blog, PeachSeedz. Like the ATDC itself, PeachSeedz is dedicated to helping Georgia technology entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. If we do it right, and we intend to, PeachSeedz will allow ATDC to serve more entrepreneurs by sharing experiences and insights beyond the physical walls of our incubators. […]
Continue reading →Allen Graber is the ATDC’s newest Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR). This begs the question what exactly is an EIR? It means different things at different places but at ATDC we bring on EIRs to strengthen the ATDC community by adding experienced, successful, former executives of technology start-up companies to the team on a short-term basis. […]
Continue reading →ATDC recently entered into a partnership with TAG to deliver some great programming open to any technology entrepreneur. The next in this series is Thursday June 7 from 7:30 to 10:15 am at the ATDC. For you not so early risers the programming really starts at 8:00 am. The format for these is that there […]
Continue reading →UPDATE: Scott has a full writeup. Good job Scott and Michael on pulling together the Capital Connections event on Wednesday night. The fact that 180 entrepreneurs and investors showed up for the gathering in and of itself speaks for what a great job they did and the need for this type of gathering. Mixing entrepreneurs […]
Continue reading →Geeking out on selecting a technology for Web apps. I have heard nothing that convinces that the LAMP bundle is not the way to go. While I am here I am reading about actually working at Meetup. Sounds like an interesting place or at least a humorous and well thought out pitch on why it […]
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 →Jason Caplain has announced that he is bringing venture captial open house day to Atlanta on May 17. You can send him a note to get on the agenda. He is tightening the focus on this session to e-commerce, software, wireless, digital media and healthcare IT companies. If you get on the schedule it would […]
Continue reading →I started a bit of chatter that led to a bit more in these parts for the need for a Y Combinator in Atlanta. It dawned on me that lots of the FoG faithful may have no idea what this means. On their web site it explains that Y Combinator “is a new kind of venture […]
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