Allen Nance posted a nice article on Startup Grind the other day. In it he asks this simple question. There is a lot of startup events and conversations happening around Atlanta, it is exciting to see, but I am wondering: “is it really helping, honestly, is it helping create better entrepreneurs and more awesome businesses?” […]
Continue reading →Back in the day when I used to listen to lots of investor presentations I was sitting in a room one day listening to a pitch with a group of angels and VCs doing exactly that. The entrepreneur got to his financial projections slide. Everybody started shaking their head yes. They liked the numbers. At […]
Continue reading →The Fall 2013 version of Atlanta Startup Weekend is taking place this weekend at ATDC. The 54 hours of fun kicks off on Friday night at 6:00 and concludes on Sunday night with the judging and awards. While some angel funded startups have emerged from this fest (Skibit, Twitpay, and Synapp to name a few) […]
Continue reading →Alan Dabbiere wrote a most excellent article on the WSJ blog The Accelerators. A lot of folks (David Cummings and Stephen Fleming to name two) have been writing about why Atlanta is a great place to build and scale a startup recently but Alan really hits the nail on the head. This is from a […]
Continue reading →So last Thursday I made my way to Villa Christina for the Silicon Valley Bank client appreciation party. Kyle pretty much nailed it. Classy SVB client appreciation party last night. All the top dogs in ATL Tech came out. Thx @dalekirkland @RyanRoller, SVB — Kyle Porter (@kyleporter) October 18, 2013 Somewhere along the line I […]
Continue reading →The subject of startup equity distribution is one that seems to generate a lot of interest. Mine was piqued again by James Altucher's brilliant article on The Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Starting and Running a Business. I wish I had have written this one line, "The rules are: I'm going to give no explanations. Just […]
Continue reading →There has been a little talk about the growth of Atlanta startup blogs. It is fantastic, here are my current favs. The not so fantastic is that a number of people that are blogging about startups in Atlanta are just flat out doing it wrong. Consider me a savior. Here are ten ways you get […]
Continue reading →A long time ago in David Cumming's blogging time line (and not so long ago in mine) he wrote an article about the rise of the Atlanta startup bloggers and was kind enough to include FoG. You go there and you will see a long list of Atlanta startup bloggers and a few not so […]
Continue reading →On Wednesday August 14 I am going to be participating at Access to Capital put on by my friends over at Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. It’s a much broader than your typical technology startup funding event. It will explore alternative and traditional lending options, angel investments, crowdfunding, private equity and more. I have the honor […]
Continue reading →Interesting little non dust up highlighting the Valley's fish bowl superiority complex and the South's beaten in a big war a long time ago inferiority complex. My take. At the end of the day costs do matter. Well not really the end of the day, but around the time you get married, have a kid […]
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