This is the third in a series of articles that discusses the stages of a startup. Previously the concept stage and seed stage were covered. Today the early stage is addressed. As one may can surmise from the intro, the early stage is the third stage of a technology startup. The key element being addressed […]
Continue reading →This past week I had an opportunity to sit down and have lunch with Scott Lockart and Kimberly Turner, the founding team of Regator (they left co-founder Chris Turner at home to code). Regator is a horizontal human powered blog aggregator. Kimberly is the the human editor of the service. She selects all the blogs […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I spent one of the most exciting 30 minutes of my week talking with Lila King and Karyn Lu of Echo. Echo is an art and civic journalism project that will produce and collect stories tied to physical locations throughout Atlanta. Karyn and Lila believe everyone has a fascinating story to tell. The interview […]
Continue reading →Busy time in the ATL. A brief roundup starting with three big happenings on Tuesday alone. Georgia Technology Summit Everybody that was anybody showed up for the biggest and best Georgia Technology Summit. The past two years I have written posts about the GTS entitlled "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly." This year I […]
Continue reading →Yesterday I gave a talk to the Georgia Tech Young Entrepreneurs Society. The vast majority of the students that are part of the group are trying to get a startup off the ground or already working on a startup. I decided to base my talk mostly around the "Quote of the Week" feature of this […]
Continue reading →Lost amid all the chatter here and on Hacker News responding to Paul Graham's "Can You Buy A Silicon Valley" was this little tidbit that flew by in the twitter stream. Last week the Georgia General Assembly favorably reported on a resolution (SR 166) creating the SITE (science, innovation, technology, and energy) to Grow Georgia […]
Continue reading →With a URL with the extension of “maybe” Paul Graham wrote an interesting essay about how a city could go about buying a Silicon Valley. Towards the end he poses a series of question any city should ask if the scheme will work for them. Here is my take on the answers. Do you have […]
Continue reading →This is the second in a series of articles that discusses the stages of a startup. Previously the concept stage was covered. Today the seed stage is addressed. The seed stage is the second stage of a technology startup. The key element being addressed in the seed stage is product development. Building a prototype, demonstrating […]
Continue reading →The venture capital community was very well represented at Startup Riot last week. Partners from CEO Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, TechOperators and Value Plus Ventures were all in attendance. In addition partners from seed stage investing firms Imlay Investments, Profounder, Seraph Group, and Shotput Ventures were on hand. Nine firms. Five of which are […]
Continue reading →Great interest in this concept. Here is the company's pitch.
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