VentureBeat reported today that Fab just closed a $40 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Fab is an oft talked about company in the halls of Half Off Depot. Before today I do not know about the company's pivot from a social network for gay men. Interesting. In Fab's announcement they attributed their success to three […]
Continue reading →So October turned out to be another record month for Half Off Depot. Our more established markets showed some nice growth and our expansion markets came up to speed nicely, most of them exceeding rather aggressive growth plans. But this week I had to let two people go. That's always tough to do. Hard saddening […]
Continue reading →So the past few days I have been hanging out a bit in the nifty new Flashpoint accelerator space. It's kinda a cool open space with high benches and work seats. Very open flow to it. And it is quite shocking to see a logo you helped create in a larger than life execution. We […]
Continue reading →So give or take a day or two here or there I have been at Half Off Depot for 100 days. Time to take stock of what has transpired. I joined the company as employee 21. We have about 50 now. The largest department remains sales, it has just about doubled in size. We have […]
Continue reading →So I have known Paul Stamatiou for nearly four years now. We met at Atlanta Startup Weekend in 2007. He pitched Skribit at that event and my thought when he did so was great idea, we can build it, not so sure about the market. The market turned out to be small. About a year […]
Continue reading →I am a member of the Jason Nation and over on the Launch blog Mr. C has a nice article. The overall post itself is about management misdirecting employees. While I don't always agree with everything Jason says or does he nails the startup sales equation. Dealing with a rabid pack of sales wolves is […]
Continue reading →Part of a email to everyone at Half Off Depot, a growth phase startup where I work. Here is my offering for the day. This one pertains to the lesson of General George W. Patton, and I'll call it: "Don't be a jackass!" To paraphrase one of Patton's standing orders, he told his troops, "I […]
Continue reading →Nice profile over on Patch about my friends at ScoutMob. Fun folks. If they could only stop the embed autoroll… Update: That autroll was getting to be too much, you can view the vid here.
Continue reading →I have a little rule of thumb. If you are working with the press on a story you can expect the finished article to be about 80% correct. Nothing against reporters. They are working on tight deadlines in areas where they do not necessiarly have domain knowledge. Urvakash Karkaria of the Atlanta Business Chronicle deserves […]
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