So Atlanta Startup Weekend morphed into StartAtlanta. On Friday night about 110 people in a geek dominated crowd walked through the doors of ATDC. About 50 entrepreneurs stood up and pitched their concepts in 60 seconds. This was whittled down to about 25 for a second round from which 12 projects emerged. Teams were formed […]
Continue reading →Khush, a company founded by music technology enthusiasts from Georgia Tech's Music Intelligence Lab recently closed a seed round from 500 Startups. 500 Startups is Dave McClure's Mountain View based seed stage venture capital fund. Very interesting. Perhaps the disparity between the level of competition for deals in the South versus Silicon Valley will result […]
Continue reading →For about a year I have been working on a project called LiquidText. LiquidText is a multi-touch document manipulation application for active reading. That sounds a little boring for a technology that is very, very cool. Here's a quick demo. LiquidText is the brainchild of Georgia Tech student Craig Tashman. You can view more detailed demos […]
Continue reading →This article was derived from my opening comments at the Tech Marketing Awards. I’ve been involved in Georgia’s marketing and technology communities for about 15 years now. When I was asked to take part in the Tech Marketing Awards I was honored. I was also a little confused. My initial thought was this is all […]
Continue reading →So ATDC can be quite the interesting place. I was walking down the hall yesterday when I noticed a lady that looked somewhat familiar standing in the reception area. I said hello and introduced myself. Turns out to be Jennifer 8. Lee. That is really her name. We struck up a conversation. She was […]
Continue reading →Back in September I announced that after three good years I was stepping away from leading Atlanta Startup Weekend. Well some folks are stepping up to evolve the concept of Startup Weekend. It is Start Atlanta. To quote the Start Atlanta team, "like any good startup, we saw something perfectly good and broke it, in […]
Continue reading →While not universally loved Robert Scoble is world renown. He is an influential social media author and technology journalist. It is what the technology world thinks about Georgia. It thinks Georgia is anti-worker. It thinks Georgia's smart technologists are going to leave for greener pastures. It thinks we are backwards. And it will […]
Continue reading →This past weekend I had the pleasure of serving as a judge of the JA Fellows Shark Tank. I was amazed by what the teams of student entrepreneurs put together in just four weeks. The winning company was Take Charge. They are selling a USB/solar powered wireless portable charger called E-Power. With their $500 in […]
Continue reading →The VoteNoOn1 social media effort came together shortly after I published Georgians Should Vote No in a flurry of DMs late Thursday night with Sanjay Parekh. What sparked the whole thing was Jobs of Tomorrow robo-calling to support the amendment. Yesterday Jim Galloway of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the content of the robo-call: Georgia progressives […]
Continue reading →Paul Graham discusses the turmoil in the world of startup funding and the battle between super angels and venture capitalists at Startup School. Insightful analysis and a must view if you have any interest at all in the funding of technology startups. Money quote: “The next couple of years is going to be a great […]
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