Over the weekend NBC Nightly News aired a video about Startup Weekend that they filmed at RTP Startup Weekend. A nice summary of what Startup Weekend is all about. Yes with a little coffee, beer and snacks you can start a business in a weekend. The next Atlanta Startup Weekend is taking place in November.
Continue reading →This fall Atlanta is going to host its second version of BarCamp and Startup Weekend. BarCamp Atlanta2 is being planned for October 17 and 18. Michael Mealling is picking up leading the effort from Jeff Haynie. If you want to reach out to Michael try twitter. Atlanta Startup Weekend 2 is being planned for the […]
Continue reading →Over in the Skribit app in my sidebar someone suggested that I provide an update on the company’s recent progress. Since it has been about three months since I last did so, that seemed like a good idea. For those of you not familiar with the company it is a product of Atlanta Startup Weekend […]
Continue reading →One of the things my mama taught me was that "if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything." As I have grown up and entered the business world this saying morphed a little. More along the lines "don’t just bring problems to the table, bring potential solutions." Before I got back to […]
Continue reading →ATM Direct, led by Nandan Sheth, the co-founder and COO of Harbor Payments, is the winner of the 2008 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition. ATM Direct seeks to become the leading alternative payments provider with a platform technology that enables PIN debit payments on the Internet. $100,000 in cash. $200,000 in services. Cha-Ching! ATM was selected […]
Continue reading →Atlanta has long been known as a center for the InfoSec industry. It seems that ISS alum with the quiet support of Tom Noonan spawned a nice little cluster of well over 30 startups. Well leave it to a guy from North Carolina to point out that another such cluster is raising in Atlanta. An […]
Continue reading →Riot indeed! Yesterday was Startup Riot. Essentially the Atlanta version of the TechCrunch50. Except there were 55 companies. Fifty five companies giving three minute presentations on their businesses. It was a fantastic event. A seminal gathering in the development of Atlanta’s startup ecosystem. For the first time I saw the bubbling up new wave of […]
Continue reading →Yesterday RTEV launched over at the Georgia Tech Conference Center. RTEV is an electric vehicle (EV) company focused on delivering affordable electric low speed vehicles (LSVs). The keys words here are affordable and low speed, a strategy a bit different from the high end aimed Tesla and Fisker cars that were featured in a Wall […]
Continue reading →I few weeks ago I was contacted by Arcadiy Kantor. Arcadiy was inquiring if a startup mailing list similar to Steattle Tech Startups was in Atlanta. I told him I was not aware of one. He asked me if he created such a beast would I promote it. Well he made it and I am […]
Continue reading →Back in December I started a brief series on the four categories of new venture risk. Somehow I got sidetracked after writing about management, market, and technology risk types. So today I thought I would close out the series with a brief discussion of funding or financial risk. Funding risk is the likelihood that a […]
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