Posts Tagged ‘Venture Capital’
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.
Georgia Tech Edison Fund
November 9th, 2007 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology, Venture Capital
Tags: Georgia Tech, seed investing, Venture Capital
I just stumbled upon this news release and I must say, I’m pretty impressed. I advocated something like this years ago but I could never get it to happen. It probably helps that Stephen Fleming, Georgia Tech’s chief commercialization officer, headed up this effort to get this done. In a nutshell, Georgia Tech is going to run an early seed stage investment fund with money coming from the Charles A. Edison Fund as well as private donations (they are a 501(c)3 so donations are tax deductible). They’ll invest up to $250k in a company but perhaps the most impressive part of the fund is this:
My Tumblr Site and Feed
October 20th, 2007 • Entrepreneurship + Startups, Technology
Tags: Del.icio.us, Digg, Flickr, Tumblr, Twitter, Venture Capital
Fresh on the heels of the discovery of the unannounced raise by Tumblr, I thought I’d go check out the site and set myself up with a Tumblelog. Why do you care? Well, if you perhaps want to follow along and watch my del.icio.us links, dugg pages, blog postings, twitters, and Flickr photos in one simplified location, then my Tumblr site is for you. I must say that setup has been fantastically easy and they even gave me a way to loop RSS subscribers through Feedburner (although this required some HTML massaging to do) so I can track my stats. How’s that for an open and easy service that simplifies my life and integrates into everything I’m already doing. I’m not sure how they’ll make money but they get kudos for a well thought out service. Who knows, I might post Tumblr specific stuff in the future too!
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