Startup Riot Press Coverage

I’m going to be cleaning up this blog soon and doing a full analysis on Startup Riot 2010 after that.  But in the meantime, I thought I’d let folks know about some of the great press we got for Startup Riot this year.  A full list is on the Startup Riot website but the most interesting thing that has happened recently is a full piece on the event by CNN.  I was also interviewed for World Business Today by Colleen McEdwards on March 5th but I haven’t found that online yet.  If and when I do, I’ll do a quick post about it. It was pretty fun and my first time on live television.

Asides

• According to this BusinessWeek article, ING is planning on selling the US branch (ING Direct) by 2013. Bummer. #
• Wow, just stumbled upon this Mozilla labs project called Raindrop to unify messaging. I could really use something like this. #
• I just got around to posting my slides from the recent invite only technology/startup event at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. #
• I realized there wasn't a map of places that entrepreneurs hangout in Atlanta so I made a public map of the ones I know about.  If you know of additional ones I should add, send me a message on Twitter. #
• Bo Peabody had a great article in the Washington Post about social networks and why they may be better off as NGOs.  Ethan Zuckerman followed up with his thoughts on the subject. #
• Thanks to my friend Ethan Zuckerman I saw this site from a group of Google engineers that aims to help liberate your data from various Google services. That's something I can get behind. #
• Just heard that as of today there are now 99 official ATDC companies with another 97 on the way. Wow! #
• Atlanta Startup Drinks announced for September 1, 2009. #
• Someone put together a nice one page resource of public first round term sheet templates. Nice and simple. #
• PE Hub calls out Georgia for being the only state to not allow public pensions to invest in private equity. #