I am a member of the Jason Nation and over on the Launch blog Mr. C has a nice article. The overall post itself is about management misdirecting employees. While I don't always agree with everything Jason says or does he nails the startup sales equation. Dealing with a rabid pack of sales wolves is […]
Continue reading →Working both sides of the Half Off Depot deal was a lot of fun. Part of that included participating in the due diligence work on behalf of Noro-Moseley Partners. During the course of this process I provided a list of potential due diligence items to the firm. The information request itself ran just over four […]
Continue reading →This Thursday night at 6:00 is Entrepreneurs’ Night. It is my ATDC swan song, and it’s going to be a good one. In May we shaking things up a bit and having several Atlanta angel groups present what they are looking for in their deals. I call it the Angel Editon. Presenters will be: Atlanta […]
Continue reading →So the first ever Digital Summit is taking place in Atlanta next Monday and Tuesday. If it is anything like the Internet Summit held in Raleigh every year this promises to be a good show. I am looking forward to the venture capital, online advertising, and future of media sessions as well as the keynote […]
Continue reading →Remember that post about FU Money? Here's another one. I see a problem almost every day with people working their plan to get some FU Money. They only take one path and often time it is the wrong one. The way I see things there are five ways to get FU Money. Marry it. Don't […]
Continue reading →When I was thumbing through the executive summaries at the 5th annual SEVC back in March I paused to read the BrightWhistle executive summary a bit more deeply. I had been working with co-founders Greg Foster and Chad Mallory for a while and wanted to see how they were presenting BrightWhistle at its coming out […]
Continue reading →So I am attending the Startup America roundtable on Monday afternoon. They asked me to think about the answer to one question. Here’s the question. What has been the most significant barrier to starting or growing your business and creating more jobs, and how can that barrier be reduced? What would you say?
Continue reading →Startup America is coming to Atlanta. On Wednesday May 2 from 1:00pm – 4:30pm at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center in Technology Square senior White House officials are hosting a forum. The objective of the forum is to meet with entrepreneurs and hear directly from them on ideas and suggestions for reducing barriers and […]
Continue reading →She wrote what is quite possibly the best comment that I have ever read on TechCrunch. It is in response to Vitrue's CEO Reggie Bradford's article on "Why Even Ron Conway Couldn’t Persuade Me To Move To Silicon Valley." Not 100% of it holds true for every startup but it's a great piece of writing. Anyone […]
Continue reading →Earlier this week I wrote an article about the need for some entity to step up and solve the lack of venture capital issue in Atlanta which led Mike Blake of StartupLounge to ask for a little clarification in the comments. I gave him a little there. Here's more. Shortly after posting I recevieved an […]
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