Back in March I wrote about the Angel Investor Tax Credit Bill. Well Georgia HB 1001 has morphed into Georgia HB 1069. The bill has passed both the State House of Representatives and the State Senate. It now sits on the Governor’s desk. It has been sitting there for a bit. Governor Perdue has until […]
Continue reading →In six days ATDC is going to host its Startup Showcase and 30th year celebration. I reckon those 30 years make ATDC one of the oldest startup incubators going. Not only is ATDC old, it's good, having recently been named by Forbes as one of 10 technology incubators that are changing the world. It has […]
Continue reading →When David Sung left ATDC for the greener pastures of the private sector I was once again charged with leading the process of screening the companies that applied to the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Yesterday TAG announced the final four. They are: Khush, intelligent music applications for mobile phones; SolidFire, a next-generation storage platform for […]
Continue reading →Back in my Mobil days we were graded by our use of analogy. This is a good one by Shane Snow via Fred Wilson. Like all good analogies it speaks for itself.
Continue reading →Last week Shotput Ventures announced they had decided to "blow up" their summer program and turn it into more of an ongoing application process. This week David Cummings provided a little more insight into the why of the change. Both Sanjay Parekh and David cited an underlying cause for the change that did not surprise […]
Continue reading →I day or two ago John Mayer infamously quit Twitter. Today I am doing the same thing not so infamously with Foursquare. I was one of the half dozen or so users in Atlanta and made my first check in last August. Since then I have assembled a host of badges and mayorships. But beyond […]
Continue reading →by David Eckoff, special to Force of Good Everyone knows someone who has come up with a good idea and who has not acted upon that idea. Or started working on the idea… and not finished. Perhaps you can even personally relate to that. People come up with good ideas for new businesses all of […]
Continue reading →A little bit later today at ad:tech and F8 BLiNQ Media is going to announce the beta launch of BAM (BLiNQ Ad Manager) and an investment of $750,000 in the company by advisors, employees, and management. BAM is a RoR application built by the expert team of Hashrocket. It is integrated with the Facebook Ads […]
Continue reading →Jen Bonnett and I were having a nice talk the other day. Not exactly sure how it came about but she poised the question "what do you think a CEO does?" I volleyed back and Jen answered her own question. A CEO: Controls strategic direction, they are in charge of that vision thing; Manages the […]
Continue reading →Today is the Georgia Technology Summit. The technology summit brings together about 1,000 C-level executives, entrepreneurs, academia, and more to celebrate Georiga’s global leadership in technology innovation. From the keynote speakers to the top 40 most innovative companies in Georgia to the introduction ceremonies of the newly selected member of the prestigious Technology Hall of […]
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