Last night I had the pleasure to present to a group of folks that are in the Georgia Tech College of Management Business Plan Competition run by Alan Flury. I have been involved in past years. It is a great program that has been the start for operational companies such as Accelereyes and Sentrinsic. The […]
Continue reading →SoCon, the Southeast's premier social media and social networking conference is quickly approaching. In its fourth year, SoCon10 will be taking place on January 29th and 30th. The event kicks off on Friday night with a networking dinner at Maggiano's that has been fantastic in previous years. On Saturday things move over to Kennesaw State […]
Continue reading →Atlanta Startup Weekend is less than a week away from starting. Over 75 people have signed up. The total registrants may reach 100 (registration closes on Wednesday). And we have some great local sponsors in MailChimp, JungleDisk, and A Small Orange that are going to be offering some resources to Startup Weekend participants. With that […]
Continue reading →People are good. It's a fundamental belief of mine. People should be friendly and courteous. It is our obligation as members of a somewhat advanced civilization to treat other individuals with dignity and respect. To be cooperative, direct, honest and open. To also be graceful with measured words and actions. I say this as I […]
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Continue reading →This is a guest post by John Willis and Curtis Hill of Zabovo John runs the AWSome Cloud Computing meetup group which the ATDC is proud to host. Today John is speaking at the Military Open Source Software Conference at the Georgia Tech Research Institute. This article is based on his presentation. Last week the […]
Continue reading →Yesterday was Shotput’s inaugural demo day. Shotput is one of many Y Combinator style startup accelerator programs. David Cummings and the entire Shotput team worked very hard to select the best capital light Internet startups they could find and coach them over the course of the summer. Eight companies presented at the Technology Square Research […]
Continue reading →Tonight I had the pleasure to be a guest speaker along with Bill Nussey of Silverpop at the Shotput Ventures weekly dinner meeting. I gave an updated version of my "Startups in 12 Quotes" presentation. It was actually titled "Startups in 12 Quotes". The reason for the change is at the end I pulled out […]
Continue reading →That is the question. One of the mainstay features on FoG over the past two years has been the "quote of the week". It is a post that appears every Friday at noon (I tried 3:14 for a period, but noon works better). It started as a throwaway, something to get a quick and easy […]
Continue reading →I bet a spend somewhere between 5 to 10% of my time listening to entrepreneurs give pitches, helping entrepreneurs create pitches, or providing suggestions for improvements to pitches. More often then not I point entrepreneurs to online resources such as the ATDC presentation template or a presentation that I gave at CapVenure on "Communicating With […]
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