From Merriam-Webster: Main Entry: non·start·er noun Date: 1902 1 : one that does not start 2 : someone or something that is not productive or effective I have been thinking of this word for sometime. I see two different types of startups that are nonstarters on an almost daily basis. The first is a team […]
Continue reading →ReadWriteStart had a nice article the other on the downside to bootstrapping. But better than the article was a comment by Micah Wedemeyer, the founder of DoLeaf and a part of the dev team over at BLiNQ Media. The money quote: So…the downside to bootstrapping is that it makes it hard to get […]
Continue reading →So this little meme about how different things are in Atlanta than other parts of the startup world has cropped up again. I don't think so much. And instead of pontificating a point of view I will tell you a real story that a few people are familiar with, the company conceived at Atlanta Startup […]
Continue reading →So TechDrawl is saying let’s somehow build a new investor orientation that does not exist in Atlanta. It is my point of view that doing this is going to take a bit of time to correct and entrepreneurs should focus on building their businesses. At some point this is essentially the local investors don’t get […]
Continue reading →It has been quite some time since I have seen or heard from Sky Dayton when somehow I stumbled across an episode of Jason Calacanis' This Week in Startups where Sky was interviewed. When it comes to all things Internet Sky is one smart cookie with the perspective of someone that has been involved in […]
Continue reading →Not too long ago Matt Culbreth introduced me to Jonathan LaCour, the CTO of ShootQ. Shortly thereafter I met with Jonathan and the rest of the founding team, Andrew Nieson and Rachel LaCour Nieson, down at HobNob for about a 90 minute get to know you session. Despite, or perhaps because of, the intertwined last […]
Continue reading →Yesterday entrepreneur turned VC Mark Suster had a quite interesting post on why distributed teams are less effective. Mark goes as far to say he won't fund a startup without the CEO, VP Products, and CTO in the same locale. I agree. And then some. It's no big secret that I have been working on […]
Continue reading →TiE Atlanta, along with the the Florida and Carolina TiE chapters, are hosting the TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010, July 16 – 17 at the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel. The focus of TES 2010 is to educate and inspire entrepreneurs on the opportunities to build and sustain innovative companies. Toward this end TES will bring […]
Continue reading →Here in the heart of the New South folks don’t talk about Pepsi much. When I first moved to Atlanta from the NYC area I walked into Stone Soup and much to my surprise they did not even stock the stuff. Over on North Ave our KO friends will not mention the company by name. […]
Continue reading →My blogging mentor Toby Bloomberg wrote an entire book via Twitter (a story for another day). Given my lack of writing motivation lately I decided to try the same thing for a blog post. Instead of writing about the GRA/TAG business launch competition finals I thought I would just pull some tweets over the course […]
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