I know a little about startups and have written quite a bit about the various stages of a startup on FoG. I was pretty darn proud of myself. Not anymore. Christine Herron of First Round Capital has a simply brilliant summary based on the wildly successful MINT. All I can do is write about it. […]
Continue reading →Big news last week in the world of Internet applications was Mint's acquisition by Intuit for $170 million. It seemed to set off quite the storm. The 37signals blog called it the result of a "VC-induced cancer" to which Fred Wilson responded with his thoughtful post on how exit decisions are made. And it seems […]
Continue reading →I can't sleep. And it made me think of this theory that I have heard from time to time over the past sixty days or so. "I'll sleep when I'm funded" or something to that effect. It's the result of a Russell Jurney asking Hacker News "how much do you work?" Here's some news of […]
Continue reading →Stumbled across this today upon clicking on a link that said “steal this idea.” So I did.
Continue reading →I was nosing around the Internet looking for a Shotput Ventures term sheet tonight. Doing a little diligence if you will. While not officially associated with Shotput in any way I went and presented over the summer, went to demo day, and am talking to a few of their companies about various things that might […]
Continue reading →Urvaksh Karkaria, the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s technology writer and the force behind AtlanTech recently asked me to write a viewpoint article. “Starting a tech company is a challenge, period” appeared in the August 14 print and online edition of the Atlanta Business Chronicle. It is being republished here in its entirety with the consent of ABC editor […]
Continue reading →Merrick Furst's description of the activity of starting a company.
Continue reading →Yesterday was Shotput’s inaugural demo day. Shotput is one of many Y Combinator style startup accelerator programs. David Cummings and the entire Shotput team worked very hard to select the best capital light Internet startups they could find and coach them over the course of the summer. Eight companies presented at the Technology Square Research […]
Continue reading →In the wake of the new ATDC John Cottingham, my associate, and I are getting a number of requests from entrepreneurs who are currently bootstrapping on how to form a corporation. While I am no attorney I thought it would be interesting to lay out the five steps I personally went through when forming a […]
Continue reading →The what is a technology startup post did not reveal a lot. Most of the comments revolved around why I was wrong, disagreement with terms, or how it was even a silly exercise. My technology startups make unique products that people want still holds for me though it is lacking detail. John Cottingham distilled this […]
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