Alan Dabbiere wrote a most excellent article on the WSJ blog The Accelerators. A lot of folks (David Cummings and Stephen Fleming to name two) have been writing about why Atlanta is a great place to build and scale a startup recently but Alan really hits the nail on the head. This is from a […]
Continue reading →"You can't teach speed." Unknown I don't know who said it but it's true. It's a sports reference. Speed is really quickness. You can't teach someone to run a 4.4 forty. They just can. It also applies to startups. I was giving a presentation at Shotput Ventures recently and a word popped into my head […]
Continue reading →"The idea that you cannot build an important tech company outside of Silicon Valley is 'a crock of shit'." Fred Wilson
Continue reading →"The rich keep getting richer because they keep doing whatever it was that made them rich. Ditto for the poor." Neal Boortz
Continue reading →“Build a company for the long term. Control your own destiny.” Justin Fishner-Wolfson In his presentation Term Sheets 101 below. The Liquidity Event Proceeds Calculator, developed as a joint project between the Atlanta Technology Development Center and Siavage Law Group, is a nice tool to figure out the affect a funding round might have on […]
Continue reading →“‘Social networks’ may be a popular buzzword these days, but the whole concept of the internet was based on social networking from the start — going all the way back to bulletin boards, email, and forums right up to today’s blogs, social networking sites, and, yes, Twitter. As far back as 1978, bulletin board systems […]
Continue reading →"The cheaper you can live, the greater your options."Mark Cuban In a blog post entitled "Success and Motivation 2009." He wrote in the context of people. It applies to companies as well.
Continue reading →“Don’t underestimate the power of the person whose lunch you are eating.”Nelson Chu In feedback to Radford Harrell, talent chief extraordinaire of TalentSoup, during the GRA/TAG Business Launch 09 finals.
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 →"…spend the majority of your time getting to know your early users." Sean Ellis In this insightful article entitled "Indifference is Your Real Competitor". I just stumbled upon the Startup Marketing Blog this week. It so loaded with excellent content that it immediately made its way to my blog roll sidebar. Sean coined a term […]
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