I opened my eyes this morning to the simple thought that technology entrepreneurs and startup investors are wired to move at two very different speeds. Entrepreneurs want to move fast, decide, get things done, move on to the next challenge on their road to glory, then rinse and repeat. Investors want to move a bit […]
Continue reading →“Build a company for the long term. Control your own destiny.” Justin Fishner-Wolfson In his presentation Term Sheets 101 below. The Liquidity Event Proceeds Calculator, developed as a joint project between the Atlanta Technology Development Center and Siavage Law Group, is a nice tool to figure out the affect a funding round might have on […]
Continue reading →I bet a spend somewhere between 5 to 10% of my time listening to entrepreneurs give pitches, helping entrepreneurs create pitches, or providing suggestions for improvements to pitches. More often then not I point entrepreneurs to online resources such as the ATDC presentation template or a presentation that I gave at CapVenure on "Communicating With […]
Continue reading →"As soon as it's written, every business plan is wrong. Good entrepreneurs recognize this, and tend to build agile teams that can quickly respond to early market information in order to identify a real business model and minimize risk." Josh Koppleman In a great Yogi Berra wisdom for startups article. There are really two main […]
Continue reading →Busy time in the ATL. A brief roundup starting with three big happenings on Tuesday alone. Georgia Technology Summit Everybody that was anybody showed up for the biggest and best Georgia Technology Summit. The past two years I have written posts about the GTS entitlled "The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly." This year I […]
Continue reading →The venture capital community was very well represented at Startup Riot last week. Partners from CEO Ventures, Kinetic Ventures, Noro-Moseley Partners, TechOperators and Value Plus Ventures were all in attendance. In addition partners from seed stage investing firms Imlay Investments, Profounder, Seraph Group, and Shotput Ventures were on hand. Nine firms. Five of which are […]
Continue reading →This morning I attended the TAG ATDC Entrepreneurs Society meeting. At the request of Paul Freet I live tweeted the event. That activity created more replies for more information then I could count on both Twitter and Facebook. The presentation highlights the results of two research studies regarding the Georgia entrepreneurial community. The first study […]
Continue reading →I cannot tell you how excited I am to hear that Cam Lanier is joining Kinetic Ventures. Cam was the guy that funded MindSpring. Alan Taetle and I would make the trek to West Point every six months or so to explain to Cam how we were going to achieve 20% quarter to quarter revenue […]
Continue reading →2009 is in full swing with a slate of events and competition that any startup entrepreneur in the Southeast should consider. CapitalLounge The next rev of the StartupLounge's entrepreneur/investor mixer takes place on February 25. CapitalLounge's primary goals are to provide an environment where early stage entrepreneurs can make connections with other like-minded entrepreneurs and […]
Continue reading →Meet the VC is back. Next Wednesday at 7:30 am. Featuring Joel Lanik from Frontier Capital out of Charlotte. You know the drill by now. Register!
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