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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.
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.
Observations^3
August 10th, 2008 • 24 comments Conferences + Events, Entrepreneurship + Startups, Rants, Venture Capital
Tags: entrepreneurship, fundraising, giving back, startups, Venture Capital
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or aren’t a part of the Atlanta startup community), you’ve already read Jeff Haynie’s post on what instigated their move. I heard Jeff’s side of the story previously so this wasn’t a surprise to me. Lance just posted a somewhat line by line response to Jeff as well. As you can imagine, I agree and disagree with a random set of stuff within both posts. So here is my two cents based on my view and experience with these issues.
Why I Hate Spreadsheet Jockeys
July 31st, 2008 • 24 comments Entrepreneurship + Startups, Rants, Venture Capital
Tags: Atlanta, flamebait, spreadsheet jockey, Venture Capital
So word is I’m going to be quoted in a story in the Atlanta Business Chronicle tomorrow (I haven’t seen it yet) and I thought I’d talk about why I said some of the things I said. First, if you didn’t know the Atlanta Business Chronicle has again put a reporter on the technology/startup beat after saying that they were going to stop covering this area. It might have to do with the fact that so many of you dropped your subscription. I dropped mine years ago in protest of treatment that I got from a previous reporter. Regardless of the changes, I don’t intend to restart my subscription. Unless of course, I can get one for free. But that’s not the point of this blog post.
Startup Riot - Perhaps We Should Put VCs in the Hot Seat
July 16th, 2008 • 2 comments Conferences + Events, Entrepreneurship + Startups, Venture Capital
Tags: conference, presentations, Startup Riot
This is just awesome. The Israeli conference, TWS08, got not only startups onstage to pitch their companies but they got three VCs to pitch slide decks that they had never seen before. The results are quite funny and perhaps this is something we should add to Startup Riot to add some levity to the day.
Nimrod Lehavi & Michael Eizenberg - video powered by Metacafe
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