Lots of folks have asked what Tony leaving ATDC means for me. Not much really. I suppose I get to do more interesting activities. One of those is taking Tony’s place on the GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition Task Force. In this role Tino Mantellla has asked me to recruit a number of mentors to help […]
Continue reading →“Social networking inventory is not monetizing as well as expected.” George Reyes "While Google management insisted on the call that the company beat its internal growth estimates, that’s like your kid getting a C grade versus your B+ expectation, and then attempting to explain it away by saying that he/she had thought they were going […]
Continue reading →According to Forbes that honor goes to Atlanta for the second year in a row. See here. Money quote: "A bustling community of Internet-related start-ups." Yeah Forbes, the home page for the world’s business leaders, called the Atlanta Internet startup scene "bustling". I think we are starting to change some perceptions. How did Atlanta end […]
Continue reading →Yesterday Chris Brogan announced that he was going to dedicate his next 100 posts to helping people grow the value of their social media and social networking efforts. Chris is a social media rockstar. If you have not been following him and want to learn how to better use social media and social networks to […]
Continue reading →Yesterday Facebook made their big announcement about their advertising platform. Facebook is selling ads that display people’s profile photos next to commercial messages that are shown to their friends about items they purchased, voiced an opinion about, or perhaps a FB app that is itself an advertising play. According to The New York Times Facebook […]
Continue reading →"The Internet wasn’t designed for people to watch television. I know because I designed it." Larry Roberts
Continue reading →I met Melanie Leeth of Imlay at an Atlanta Technology Angels event. I learned a lot about Imlay that I did not know. But more importantly, we had one of those great uplifting energizing conversations that you have every so often. Melanie has great cognition of the Internet space and we talked about some potential […]
Continue reading →I have been thinking about this for awhile and during a little run this morning I reached the conclusion that, like information before it, user generated content wants to be free on the Internet. Not free as does not cost you anything. Free to move. From one social network or communication media to another unbounded. […]
Continue reading →TAG and the Georgia Resource Alliance have just announced that the next business launch competition is going to focus on Internet/web app companies. The winner of the contest will receive $100,000 in cash and $200,000 in services. The general rules are that you can not have raised over $500,000 and your business has to be […]
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 […]
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