In a few short minutes the companies that were selected for Venture Atlanta will be making their way to the stage for six minutes of fame. There are 20 companies on the agenda for the day but a few that are more interesting to me. I have been advising and coaching Venture Atlanta participants BLiNQ […]
Continue reading →Last night I ventured out with the BLiNQ Media team to see The Social Network. Good movie. Not sure where I read it but one critic called it the "Wall Street" for this time. I agree. If you happen to hang out in the Internet, social media, or startup worlds you need to go see […]
Continue reading →So over on Quora someone posed the question "what are the most interesting tech startups in Atlanta?" I responded with a top 20. It's a bit of a personal list. I figure that we can have a more interesting discussion here as opposed to there. So here's my list with a short blurb on each. […]
Continue reading →Every November since 2007 I have organized Atlanta Startup Weekend. After some deep thought on the matter I have decided to no longer led Atlanta Startup Weekend. The decision was both complex and difficult but it is the right thing to do. Atlanta Startup Weekend accomplished what I intended. It built a stronger technology startup […]
Continue reading →So Michael Arrington walks in uninvited to a dinner party of a bunch of powerful angel investors and they all shut up and tell him to go away. He starts screaming collusion in a quite successful attempt to draw page views. Good for him. Well a bunch of angel investors got together over dinner at […]
Continue reading →So over my time in tech I have helped many a CEO in one way or another. Below is the full text of an email that I received from one of them. I found it to be thoughtful and balanced. It is published here with permission as I believe that others will find it insightful. […]
Continue reading →Those of you that follow me on Twitter might have seen that Blake Perdue got hitched this past Sunday. He is going to spend his life with the lovely Charlotte who is a fashion editor/writer in NYC. Blake is moving to the city and becoming a family man. Charlotte is getting a standup guy. Blake […]
Continue reading →So today I made a comment on an article written by Ben Dyer over on TechDrawl. Here it is; Good grief. There are so many fundamental false assumptions in this article and the comments that I might have to start blogging again. Guess I should have used a little smiley face or something. As I […]
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 […]
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