Greg Foster and Alan Taetle of Noro Moseley Partners recently went on StartupLounge to talk about a host of subjects around the startup and venture capital world. During the show Alan mentioned that he is keenly focused on getting involved with the entrepreneurial community. As I previously wrote, Noro is working with and ATDC towards […]
Continue reading →All the chatter that has been going on online sure has the early stage entrepreneurial group buzzing. About 40 or so showed up for Open Coffee yesterday at Tech Square. Heck, there were even at least two investors in the mix (Greg Foster of NMP and Clark Gilder) and at least one company (I ain’t […]
Continue reading →That according to Charlie Paparelli of Paparelli Ventures is the question going through an angel investor’s mind during the first one on one meeting with an entrepreneur. Cindy Cheatham has a full write up over on PeachSeedz. The three step process Charlie laid out to get the first meeting were; 1. Get ready to pitch […]
Continue reading →My friend Jeff Haynie wrote a nice missive on why he moved to the Valley entitled "What’s wrong with the Atlanta startup ecosystem and how to fix it." It’s a pretty long post and a worthy read. Jeff’s a smart guy and I generally agree with him on most things. I have some observations of […]
Continue reading →ATDC is looking for a great group of young, early stage companies who can benefit from our fundraising bootcamp program, CapVenture. CapVenture’s focus is on helping companies to improve their fundraising preparation and odds of success (33% of 2007 participants raised money). CapVenture helps entrepreneurs sharpen their strategy, raise their profile and significantly accelerate their […]
Continue reading →This fall ATDC, along with our friends at TAG, will once again is put on the wildly successful CapVenture that is designed to educate and equip early stage technology companies to go out and get their first institutional round of funding. Actually, it is not just designed to do so, it has been highly effective […]
Continue reading →I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon in a fun session with Scott Burkett, Melanie Leeth, and Ashish Mistry prepping the finalists in the GRA/TAG Business Launch Competition for their presentations next Wednesday. All good presentations from companies with potential. But several of them took well over four minutes to getting around to stating […]
Continue reading →One of the leading suggestions in my Skribit is the subject of Atlanta Investors. I was fortunate enough to sit in on a talk that Sig Mosley, the unwitting godfather of early stage technology investing in Atlanta, had with the companies in the ATDC incubator program. Sig got me motivated. So today I am going […]
Continue reading →This morning I caught a little story on NPR by John McChesney about venture captial. Seems that Mark Cannice runs a quarterly confidence survey of SV VCs. His most recent survey showed confidence plunging to a four year low. What does that mean? VCs hunkering down and making sure they have the dry powder to […]
Continue reading →Not too long ago a successful serial entrepreneur reached out to me to help with his fund raising efforts. He has created a good concept, built a good team, and was starting to gain customer traction. With all this success he felt that it might be a good time to go out and raise a […]
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