Here in the heart of the New South folks don’t talk about Pepsi much. When I first moved to Atlanta from the NYC area I walked into Stone Soup and much to my surprise they did not even stock the stuff. Over on North Ave our KO friends will not mention the company by name. […]
Continue reading →Last week Shotput Ventures announced they had decided to "blow up" their summer program and turn it into more of an ongoing application process. This week David Cummings provided a little more insight into the why of the change. Both Sanjay Parekh and David cited an underlying cause for the change that did not surprise […]
Continue reading →Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition is trying to find the best big ideas for mobile applications. And this year they are taking the contest to a new level by offering up a $1 million venture investment to the winning proposal that could change the way people use Nokia devices. The winning proposal will meet the […]
Continue reading →I can’t tell you how ironic it was when someone create secretcabal on Twitter. Ironic because there was one. Some time ago the good folks at Noro-Moseley Partners had invited me to a dinner meeting at White Space Gallery. The purpose of the dinner was an open discussion of what’s happening in the Atlanta startup […]
Continue reading →I'll be darned of I know. But I am going to make my way out to the Ashford Club on Thursday night to hear Fred Sturgis of HIG, Mike Elliott of Noro-Moseley, Nelson Chu of Kinetic Ventures, David Sung of ATDC, Tuff Yen of Seraph Group, and Said Mohammadioun of Tech Operators discuss where the […]
Continue reading →Back in September the fine institute for which I have the honor to carry on my work published a piece entitled "Atlanta Kills Off Start-Up Companies." The words chosen for the headline were, shall we say, unfortunate. It could have just have easily been called "Connectivity Key to Atlanta Startup Ecosystem" or by the paper's […]
Continue reading →Shortly after the attention grabbing article entitled “Study Shows Atlanta Kills Off Start-Up Companies” I found myself sitting down with Wright Steenrod of Chrysalis Ventures. Wright leads Chrysalis’ technology practice. He likes Atlanta, he likes Atlanta entrepreneurs, and he is looking to make some more investments in Atlanta. It seems like all this public weeping […]
Continue reading →Big news last week in the world of Internet applications was Mint's acquisition by Intuit for $170 million. It seemed to set off quite the storm. The 37signals blog called it the result of a "VC-induced cancer" to which Fred Wilson responded with his thoughtful post on how exit decisions are made. And it seems […]
Continue reading →I can't sleep. And it made me think of this theory that I have heard from time to time over the past sixty days or so. "I'll sleep when I'm funded" or something to that effect. It's the result of a Russell Jurney asking Hacker News "how much do you work?" Here's some news of […]
Continue reading →Stumbled across this today upon clicking on a link that said “steal this idea.” So I did.
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