Well I took my own advice. I am joining a startup. It is Half Off Depot. Half Off Depot is an Atlanta based social commerce company. We enable merchants to harness the power of social media and the appeal of deal driven commerce to attract and retain customers. Half Off Depot currently operates in two markets. […]
Continue reading →Remember that post about FU Money? Here's another one. I see a problem almost every day with people working their plan to get some FU Money. They only take one path and often time it is the wrong one. The way I see things there are five ways to get FU Money. Marry it. Don't […]
Continue reading →So we have been talking a little bit about startup compensation across the nation and in Atlanta. Today the subject is seed stage compensation. In particular for those companies that have raised a typical angel round, say $500k. Before going there it is helpful to summarize later stage startup compensation. Abby and I had a brief […]
Continue reading →Last week FoG covered compensation at technology startups on the national level. Today we are going to get a little closer to home and talk about technology compensation in Atlanta. The source for this information is the 2011 Atlanta Technology Executive Compensation Survey conducted by the Technology Executives Roundtable. This is the third year that TER […]
Continue reading →A notice that went out tonight to Skribit users this evening. Quite a few people have been involved with Skribit over the years. Thanks to everyone that helped create and grow the company and also to those that are helping to shut it down. [Notice: This is the last email you'll ever receive regarding Skribit. I will […]
Continue reading →From time to time I get questions about startup compensation. To gain some insights into the matter I am planning to attend a special session of the Technology Executive Roundtable on Atlanta technology executive compensation tomorrow. To set the table I wanted to share some national startup compensation data. Over the years I have found CompStudy to be the […]
Continue reading →Earlier this week I wrote an article about the need for some entity to step up and solve the lack of venture capital issue in Atlanta which led Mike Blake of StartupLounge to ask for a little clarification in the comments. I gave him a little there. Here's more. Shortly after posting I recevieved an […]
Continue reading →Last week while I was vacationing Stephen Fleming alerted the world to a new article by Steve Blank entitled "One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor, Michigan." It's an article that Steve wrote about a few days he spent in the home town of the champions of the West. I suspect that if some […]
Continue reading →So I was having a chat with a VC the other day and he said something quite simple and obvious. To parapharse: "Sales is everything in the early stage. I really wish that we saw more aggressive CEOs that had what it takes to close deals." Yep. All too often entrepreneurs take a build it […]
Continue reading →The continual self consternation of the Atlanta startup community borders on amusing. Dozens of well intentioned people associating and coming up with solutions to what supposedly ails starting a technology company in the South. The solution is really quite simple and straightforward. Atlanta needs more people with FU money. FU money removes a lot of annoyances […]
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