Venture Capital
Startup Riot 2010 Now Accepting Applications
I probably should have posted this earlier, but Startup Riot is now accepting applications to both attend and present. The event will be February 17, 2010 somewhere in Atlanta. I’m finalizing the venues for both the event and after party so I’ll talk about those soon. Just know that it’s going to be fabulous in [...]
Google Shuns Twitter
I saw this article about 33 pictures of Twitter addiction (no, I’m not pictured) and started looking at the photo of the road sign of Twitter Court. I got curious and thought I’d pull up Google Maps on the word Twitter to see if there were any others. Apparently there are two roads – Twitter [...]
Atlanta Open Coffee – August 27, 2009
We’re going more OTP than usual for the next Open Coffee. It’ll be August 27, 2009 from 2pm until 5pm at Roam Atlanta in Alpharetta.
If you’re an entrepreneur, angel investor, or VC you’re welcome to join us. If you’re not one of those three things, you’re welcome to stay away from this get together.
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Shotput Ventures Pictures from Summer 2009
I’ll do a lessons learned post soon but a real quick one for this is in order. I’ve finally posted the photos I took from Shotput Ventures first class of 2009. In retrospect I should have taken more pictures and I should have remembered to bring my camera to demo day (thanks to the OpenHatch [...]
Khosla on Venture Capital
Charlie Paparelli pointed me to this New York Times article which has two quotes that I very much agree with. First Vinod Khosla says:
Mr. Khosla said his firm operates like old-fashioned venture capitalists, “where people took technical risks and really helped entrepreneurs, as opposed to today, when a lot of the venture capitalists are financial [...]
