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Startup Riot 2009: Registration Open!
October 9th, 2008 • Conferences + Events, Entrepreneurship + Startups, Venture Capital
Tags: conference, investors, job-search, Startup Riot, startups
Okay folks, the time has come to open up registration for Startup Riot which will be on February 18, 2009. We’re going to try to make the event bigger and more awesome than last time. If you remember, last year we had 54 companies presenting 3-minutes apiece, over 270 attendees, and one fantastic after-party.
For 2009, we’re shooting for 70 presenting companies and we’re capping attendance at somewhere between 300 and 350 people. Also note that last year we had over 90 applications to present and over 330 applications to attend. Clearly, we had to say no to a bunch of applications in both groups.
So if you’re interested in attending, I urge you to apply early to attend or present as appropriate. Preference will be given to those who get their applications in early.
Too Many Gas Stations
October 6th, 2008 • 6 comments Business, Entrepreneurship + Startups
Tags: fundraising, gas stations, gasoline, marketing, startups
I’ve been watching the gas issues we’ve been having in Atlanta with some interest. For those of you not in Atlanta (or the southeast U.S.), you may not realize or know that we’ve had some issues in getting a regular supply of gasoline since Hurricane Ike came through the Gulf of Mexico.
START Atlanta Coming This Weekend
September 16th, 2008 • Conferences + Events, Entrepreneurship + Startups
Tags: startups
Some local entrepreneurs have decided to do a get together this coming weekend and see if some constructive solutions can’t be hammered out when it comes to local seed funding. The event, START Atlanta, is scheduled for September 19-21st at Appcelerator’s offices (yes, they still have offices and people here even though the company moved to the west coast).
If you’re interested in attending, make sure you register on their Facebook event (yes, that means you have to have a Facebook account).
Get the Juicy Gossip
September 12th, 2008 • 1 comment Entrepreneurship + Startups
Tags: gossip, startups
For those of you who follow me on Twitter, this announcement will not come as a surprise. For the last few weeks I’ve been tooling around with PHP and Yahoo Pipes in order to get a new news and information aggregator up and running.
Gray Hair Isn’t An Accomplishment
August 24th, 2008 • 5 comments Entrepreneurship + Startups, Venture Capital
Tags: fundraising, organizational-culture, startups, Venture Capital
It’s an argument that we’ve all heard before.
You don’t have any experience in this space.
Your team hasn’t worked together before.
You’ve never done this before, how could you succeed?
Some people seem to believe that you can only launch a company in an industry that you’ve been working in with a team for a long time. Add to that the requirement that the team has already launched a few successful startups in the same space and then maybe you’ve got the formula to create a successful startup.
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