What is a technology startup? Seems like a pretty straightforward question. But there is surprisingly little written to answer the question. If you Google the title of this post you will find no results. Google "technology startup" produces little to define it well though it is interesting to note that my associate Blake Perdue is […]
Continue reading →Chris Anderson the editor of WIRED was on Colbert last night pimping his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (which by the way is free on iTunes as an audiobook. At the 4:57 mark this exchange takes place: Colbert: Can I twitter send me cash? It that legal? Anderson: Twitpay. I believe. […]
Continue reading →This is the fourth in a series of articles that discusses the stages of a startup. Previously the concept stage, seed stage, and early stage were covered. Today the growth stage is addressed. Scale. The growth stage is all about scale. Scaling the business. Becoming a real business. Creating real value for stockholders. Perhaps no […]
Continue reading →"The idea that you cannot build an important tech company outside of Silicon Valley is 'a crock of shit'." Fred Wilson
Continue reading →Tonight I had the pleasure to be a guest speaker along with Bill Nussey of Silverpop at the Shotput Ventures weekly dinner meeting. I gave an updated version of my "Startups in 12 Quotes" presentation. It was actually titled "Startups in 12 Quotes". The reason for the change is at the end I pulled out […]
Continue reading →The GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition has opened it's People’s Choice Contest. The top two companies receiving the most votes will become “wild card” presenters in the semi finals of the competition. Last year one of the company's that emerged from the People's Choice Contest Made it to the finals so it is a great way […]
Continue reading →"As soon as it's written, every business plan is wrong. Good entrepreneurs recognize this, and tend to build agile teams that can quickly respond to early market information in order to identify a real business model and minimize risk." Josh Koppleman In a great Yogi Berra wisdom for startups article. There are really two main […]
Continue reading →Tonight on 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl will be reporting on computer viruses and botntets that propagate on the Internet and infect PCs, which enable their creators to do all types of evil things via remote command and control. The show airs tonight, should get some good ratings – it’s right after the NCAAs. And if […]
Continue reading →You may have heard that Jason Calacanis, the CEO of Mahalo, publicly offered $250,000 for two years for one of the top twenty slots of suggested users that Twitter is now offering up as part of its service. Jason's offer was a publicity stunt. A game. He intended to attract media coverage. He is extremely […]
Continue reading →AtlantTech reported today that Twitpay has raised an undisclosed round of funding. Twitpay, the second Startup Weekend Atlanta company to secure seed captial (Skribit being the first), is a simple way to send payments via Twitter. The service is powered on the backend by Amazon Payments. Twitpay went live two weeks ago. Twitpay has been […]
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