Yesterday was the second rev of Startup Riot. Forty nine companies and one make believe company gave three minute pitches on their startup. Once again, it was a fantastic event. Improved in every way from last year. WifiCat was a highlight. WifiCat is in integrated cat collar and Wifi access point. It’s a joke. The […]
Continue reading →Last week there was a little flare up in my twitterstream. Seem’s there is frustration and a difference of opinion on the terms used to define the various stages of a startup. Surprisingly, there is little literature on the topic (stepping up what I call FoG). So I thought I would offer a framework for […]
Continue reading →Next Tuesday morning I am participating on a panel entitled “Transforming Caterpillars into Butterflies: A Study of Emergent Organizations”. Jake Messersmith, an Associate Professor of Management at The George Washington University who wrote his doctoral dissertation on the same subject will be giving the keynote. In his presentation Dr. Messersmith will present research results from […]
Continue reading →Forgive the indulgence of the Follower Tag Cloud post. The output of Twittersheep was just to artistic to muddy with mere words. I found Twittersheep via my friend Tessa. Twittersheep is a Twitter visualization tool. It searches your list of Twitter followers and pulls together a tag cloud based on keywords in their profiles. The […]
Continue reading →The problem of information overload has long held great interest for me. Primarily because I suffer from it. Even introduced a concept called “The greatest application never built” during Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 that drew some interest. It also still has not been built. The comment that “I didn’t come here for a new job” […]
Continue reading →This past weekend while the North American International Auto Show kicked off in Detroit I had my own little personal auto show. I spend the weekend tooling around in a prototype of the Wheego Whip by RTEV. It was a fun experience. When I brought it home both of my kids exclained "cool." And boy […]
Continue reading →2009 is in full swing with a slate of events and competition that any startup entrepreneur in the Southeast should consider. CapitalLounge The next rev of the StartupLounge's entrepreneur/investor mixer takes place on February 25. CapitalLounge's primary goals are to provide an environment where early stage entrepreneurs can make connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs and […]
Continue reading →You may have heard of the TAG/GRA Business Launch Competition. That little thing where the Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) join forces (along with the help of ATDC) to support the creation and growth of new startups in Georgia via a competition. Where the contest winner receives a $100,000 cash […]
Continue reading →It's been way too long between blog posts for me. It's not that I don't have things to write about. I do. I have just been too busy. One of the things that I have been busy with is helping out with Skribit. Well Georgia Tech announced today that Paul Stamatiou is going to be […]
Continue reading →I month ago I wrote a fairly popular article about startup equity distribution among co-founders. It generated a nice little conversation. The short answer was there is no short answer. Dividing startup equity is a complex process. Doing it right takes a lot of time and effort. Yesterday I stumbled upon a post by Frank […]
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