Not too long ago Michael Tavani of Scoutmob fame announced that he was leaving his day to day role there. Shortly thereafter he launched Switchyards, a consumer brand incubator focused on design and based in Atlanta. On June 6 Switchyards will be hosting a consumer design weekend accelerator event at Scoutmob. Given my experience running […]
Continue reading →Atlanta Startup Weekend is back this weekend. This 54 hours of organized chaos take place May 2 through May 4 at ATDC. Entrepreneurs show up on Friday night, pitch their ideas, form teams, and code away. This hackathon has been around in some form or the other since 2007. The focus has morphed from pitching and hacking […]
Continue reading →Today Jeff Hilimire introduced Advice For Good, an idea that blossomed out of the time demands of offering coaching and counseling to budding entrepreneurs. Interesting concept. Pretty simple too. You donate at least an hour of your time to a non-profit or other charitable cause and then blog about your experience on this site, and in exchange […]
Continue reading →Force of Good has been an active blog going on eight years. It started off using a standard Typepad template. In 2008 Paul Stamatiou moved the design from three to two columns and Blake Perdue created the custom design template that is currently being used. With the exception of the move to Disqus commenting in […]
Continue reading →"You are a master craftsman of social media." Someone sent that to me in an email. I told them I was going to use that quote on my blog someday. Today is that day. I don't know if I am a master of anything. I do know I have an even 600 invitations in my […]
Continue reading →The Fall 2013 version of Atlanta Startup Weekend is taking place this weekend at ATDC. The 54 hours of fun kicks off on Friday night at 6:00 and concludes on Sunday night with the judging and awards. While some angel funded startups have emerged from this fest (Skibit, Twitpay, and Synapp to name a few) […]
Continue reading →So last Thursday I made my way to Villa Christina for the Silicon Valley Bank client appreciation party. Kyle pretty much nailed it. Classy SVB client appreciation party last night. All the top dogs in ATL Tech came out. Thx @dalekirkland @RyanRoller, SVB — Kyle Porter (@kyleporter) October 18, 2013 Somewhere along the line I […]
Continue reading →So I did something really bad today. I cancelled a meeting with a prominent entrepreneur/investor at the last minute. For the second time. Without going deep into the details my issue was legit. I had an urgent employee oriented operational task that I needed to complete. It was an non-optional business demand. And I had […]
Continue reading →On Wednesday August 14 I am going to be participating at Access to Capital put on by my friends over at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. It’s a much broader than your typical technology startup funding event. It will explore alternative and traditional lending options, angel investments, crowdfunding, private equity and more. I have the honor […]
Continue reading →Last night I braved the weather and traffic to attend the GigaOm Mobility Meetup at Opera (partially owned by tech entreprenuer Dave Williams). Maybe about a third or so of the 600 registered attendees managed to make the event and those that decided to stay dry missed a good one. While the show started late and […]
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