On Tuesday November 11 at 8:00 am ATDC is hosting the third rev of "Meet the VC." This time around the highly popular program will feature Lon Chow of Apex Venture Partners out of Chicago. Some of Lon's investments include Bellamax, KnowledgeStorm, LifeSnapz, Placeware. Shoebuy, and Tradex. With that mix and recent economic developments it […]
Continue reading →The downturn sure is making for interesting times. Here at FoG it started with the gloom of the Sequoia meeting notes and presentation of doom. Followed by the more upbeat link to Paul Graham's essay on "Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy." Interesting times. And I have a pretty interesting job. A […]
Continue reading →About 500 entrepreneurs, executives, and venture capitalists gathered last week for the first Venture Atlanta conference. This event came about when the Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Atlanta CEO Council, and the Technology Association of Georgia collaborated to develop something bigger and better than the ION Venture Forum. And bigger and better it was. […]
Continue reading →Amidst all the economic gloom and doom four accomplished Atlanta entrepreneurs are showing optimism for technology startups in the South by starting a new venture fund. David Gould, Said Mohammadioun, and Glenn McGonnigle and Tom Noonan will formally announce the formation of TechOperators at Venture Atlanta later this week. The general partners in TechOperators have […]
Continue reading →From The Funded. Not sure of the source. Update: Seems like the source was fairly accurate. TechCrunch and VentureBeat now have the actual presentation online. It is also on SlideShare. I have embeded the presentation at the end of the notes. Today, Sequoia Capital hosted a mandatory CEO All-Hands Meeting on Sand Hill Road. There […]
Continue reading →Next week is going to be a big one in the Atlanta startup technology world. And I mean big. From Wednesday morning to Saturday afternoon it is one glorious gathering after another. GTISC Security Summit Wednesday morning kicks things off with the GTISC Security Summit. This year the focus is on emerging cyber security threats. […]
Continue reading →Back in July Jason Calacanis said he was retiring from blogging and starting a private mailing list. Well the retirement turns out to be a bit Bret Favre style. Over the weekend he sent out an email entitled “(The) Startup Depression” which drew a great deal of attention and led to him posting the content […]
Continue reading →ATDC is gearing up for its first Meet the VC session this week. Alan Taetle of Noro-Moseley Partners is going to be the featured venture capitalist. I’ve known Alan for quite some time and have plenty of questions for him, but since this program was launched based on the chatter that was taking place on […]
Continue reading →Following up on my Moving Forward post, ATDC today announced the launch of a new program called "Meet the VC". You can read all about it over on PeachSeedz. Or you can trust me and go sign up for the first session with Alan Taetle of Noro-Moseley Partners right now.
Continue reading →I was talking with an aspiring young tech startup entrepreneur last week about getting his one pager together for distribution when somehow or the other the topic of what to do at entrepreneur/investor semi-social mixer came up. My advice. Don’t pitch, qualify. Rationale. Raising money is a bit like job hunting. In either instance the […]
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