Part of a email to everyone at Half Off Depot, a growth phase startup where I work. Here is my offering for the day. This one pertains to the lesson of General George W. Patton, and I'll call it: "Don't be a jackass!" To paraphrase one of Patton's standing orders, he told his troops, "I […]
Continue reading →When I joined Half Off Depot I was part of a senior management team that all came on board the same day. It's a great team and we are making great progress, but when you bring on a bunch of new leaders at the same time it can create some general confusion. Confusion is bad. Clarity […]
Continue reading →So we have been talking a little bit about startup compensation across the nation and in Atlanta. Today the subject is seed stage compensation. In particular for those companies that have raised a typical angel round, say $500k. Before going there it is helpful to summarize later stage startup compensation. Abby and I had a brief […]
Continue reading →Last week FoG covered compensation at technology startups on the national level. Today we are going to get a little closer to home and talk about technology compensation in Atlanta. The source for this information is the 2011 Atlanta Technology Executive Compensation Survey conducted by the Technology Executives Roundtable. This is the third year that TER […]
Continue reading →From time to time I get questions about startup compensation. To gain some insights into the matter I am planning to attend a special session of the Technology Executive Roundtable on Atlanta technology executive compensation tomorrow. To set the table I wanted to share some national startup compensation data. Over the years I have found CompStudy to be the […]
Continue reading →So six days ago I decided that I was going to go offline. Went on a personal trip and left the laptop at home. I had my smart phone but did not really use it beyond coordinating movements with the folks I has hanging out with. Being offline created quite a bit of free time. […]
Continue reading →If you put Ron Conway and Paul Graham on a stage together talking about investing you learn some interesting things. At about the 23 minute mark of the video PG starts talking about team size. Four is bad. One is a bit better. Two and three teams seem to do best. This started quite the […]
Continue reading →As is often the case PG has an excellent essay up on “What Happened to Yahoo” (no exclamation point from him). While the entire is a must read the money quote for me is: Yahoo treated programming as a commodity. At Yahoo, user-facing software was controlled by product managers and designers. The job of programmers was […]
Continue reading →Two years or so ago I reached out to the Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs to offer them some space for their monthly meetings. It was a bit of a lone wolf effort but one I think was appreciated. And as a result the group has grown. Grown into an event that attracts darn near 100 participants […]
Continue reading →Cam Lanier is a man I respect a great deal. He was recently honored as a Distinguished Entrepreneur. The guy has only been responsible for about 20 new ventures that created 15,000 jobs and an aggregate capital formation of something north of $9 billion. Cam is not only very successful, he is a true Southern […]
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