Prepping for the Startup Lounge this morning had me going through some funding figures to come up with the following factoids. In the past 10 years ATDC companies have raised just over $1 billion in venture capital. Since 2000 ATDC companies have either raised or been acquired to the tune of $1.7 billion. For the […]
Continue reading →I am sitting at the Ritz Carlton Reynolds Plantation surrounded by venture capitalist types at the AeA Venture Forum. A semi-rich target environment for entrepreneurs seeking capital. Tom Noonan, whom I last saw in Beaver Creek sipping a beer après ski, started the morning with the history of ISS. Very candid conversation about the most […]
Continue reading →Rich DeMillo kicked off the Georgia Technology Summit with a very interesting presentation entitled “Murder, Starvation, & Catastrophe – What Eric The Red Can Teach Us About 21st Century Innovation”. My first thought was who in the heck is Eric the Red and what the heck does he have to do with innovation in the […]
Continue reading →I just heard that CoalTek (which has the worst Web site of any venture backed company that I have ever seen), has raised an additional $33 million in its C round. The investment deal was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, but also included participation by Warburg Pincus, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Element and Braemar Energy […]
Continue reading →The quarterly PwC Shaking the MoneyTree update took place this moring. As Scott previously reported there was a nice upswing in Georgia early stage deals. Georgia also cracked the state top ten for Q4. Bruce Robertson gave a nice presentation with some astute comments. One of them being that venture funds have raised $56 billion […]
Continue reading →Jeffrey Leavitt put on a DLA Venture Pipeline presentation today to a packed house over at TSRB. Seems DLA is using the Venture Pipeline as an angle to lure entreprenuers into their practice. Seems to be working. Jeff claimed that DLA was involved with 11 of the 19 Georgia VC deals reported in Q4 of […]
Continue reading →I first wrote about VCs and NDAs last November. Well last week Rick Segal had a whole series of rants on the subject. First he explains how you should go for confidentiality in the term sheet. Second he outlines how to handle it in an execution play. Finally he piles it on by analyzing the […]
Continue reading →One of the not written but much spoken policies at the ATDC is that we do not let competitive companies into the incubator. Since I joined last October I have questioned the wisdom of this from time to time. Just because a particular entrepreneur comes to us first should not necessarily preclude another with a […]
Continue reading →The folks up in Gwinnett have put together a nice little business plan competition called the Gwinnett Innovation Challenge 2007. They have a prize package of over $100,000 that will be split between a seed stage and growth stage company. $45,000 of the prize is cash. Like Marc said “money is money.” I suppose free […]
Continue reading →Charlie Paparelli wrote a nice article last week about how to become a successful angel investor. The core of Charlie’s writings outlines four steps to consider in building a successful startup company portfolio: Step 1: Motivation If you are interested in startup investing then you are ready for the first test. This is the test […]
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