Long before I was working at ATDC I was involved in the Startup Council. The Startup Council was formed several years ago based on the belief that the next generation of emerging entrepreneurs were on the horizon and these folks could use a little free advice. The Startup Council enables companies to gain valuable insights […]
Continue reading →Skribit entered open beta last week. Since we launched the product in private beta we have spent a good deal of effort making sure that the service and production environment were stable to handle the load. And the load surely is growing. We are getting upwards of 25K UV with no marketing spend as this […]
Continue reading →Last night was the third Capital Connections event put on by the guys from Startup Lounge. Another great event. The only problem was that there were so many people there it was a bit crowded. But that is a good problem to have. Personally my only compliant is the constant ribbing I took for having […]
Continue reading →I am sitting with 80 people at the TAG/ATDC Entrepreneurs Society listening to Sandeep Agate of REACH Call talk about his business and how winning the 2006 GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition helped propel his company forward. Gregg Warren CEO of ATDC member company IVOX, the 2007 winner, is up next. This is a kickoff for […]
Continue reading →After briefly defining both management risk and market risk this week I am turning to the topic of product risk. Product risk is commonly referred to as technology risk. It is the likelihood that a startup will fail to produce the product it sets out to create. Or put another way, can the product be […]
Continue reading →Last week I wrote a brief article about the management risk inherent in new ventures. This week I turn to a second category of risk, market risk. Market risk is simply that the predicted market for the startup’s new products turns out to be substantially less then what the founders forecast. Or put another way, […]
Continue reading →Over the weekend about 20 co-founders of Atlanta Startup Weekend, the creators of Skribit, got together to move the product to the point where we could extend the number of beta users in the wild. My biggest task during the day was to give a presentation over lunch about the state of the corporation and […]
Continue reading →After Atlanta Startup Weekend I needed some time to recharge. A nice break from the Internet in general and blogging in particular over a Thanksgiving holiday that I turned into a week’s vacation offered me a little time to reflect on the lessons from the undertaking. As a facilitator more than a task participant I have […]
Continue reading →Skribit is the product of Atlanta Startup Weekend. We “launched” at midnight and have already been TechCrunched and on Truemors. While I wished we were a little further along from a product development point of view, any press is good press. I led the effort to bring Startup Weekend to Atlanta and have been working […]
Continue reading →Dave Coustan sent me a note today suggesting that he was expecting to see an opposing view to Paul Graham’s recent post on Why to Move to A Startup Hub. This led me to a write up that he did on a speech at FOWA where he claimed that "Atlanta is hosed." I beg to […]
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