Category Archives: Atlanta Business Scene
February 26, 2012
200 Pitches From Atlanta Startups
Enjoy this tag cloud, created from 200 random startup pitches submitted for StartupLounge and/or AngelLounge. These were all pitches submitted in the past few years. These pitches were all of the single sentence (or paragraph form), and all had common “stop” words removed for clarity. This cloud is the top 150 terms. Click for a …
MFG.com: My New Adventure
I quietly announced my new adventure via Twitter shortly thereafter, but thought I would drop a post here to dive in a bit deeper on it – especially since I’ve been procrastinating a bit on this, and it has been 3 months already! As a more “official” announcement (I suppose), I have joined the MFG.com …
The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind
Every few months or so, various Atlanta startup thought leaders are corralled together on a panel or round-table to discuss what can be done to improve our startup ecosystem. Invariably, the outcome is the same: a regurgitated list of things we already know all too well. Examples: Lack of local funding sources for early-stage companies …
Great Startup Opportunity in Atlanta
Sometimes, out of the chaos of business, great ideas emerge. Unfortunately, you rarely have the chance to aggressively chase those great ideas in the here-and-now. I’ll be blogging more about this soon, but we’ve been pretty busy at StarPound lately. We ended Q4/2009 strong, including the deployment of our platform to solve some major problems …
RIP: Atlanta Cloud
Several weeks ago, Unblakeable and I spoke at the monthly gathering of the Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs group. We provided a pretty thorough treatment of where we thought the Atlanta startup community was in terms of its maturity, and then presented a concept that we thought was pretty compelling at the time – the Atlanta Startup …
Reflecting on Independence Day – and Announcing VetLoop.com
I can still remember the grainy television images of the smoke billowing into the sky, people screaming, sirens blaring. The images of hundreds of body bags stacked neatly beside the rubble, juxtaposed against a noisy backdrop of frenetic movement. It was October 23rd, 1983, just 8 short years after the end of the Vietnam War. …
Last One Off the Clue Train is a Rotten Peach!
Urvaksh over at the Atlanta Business Chronicle recently published an article providing some coverage of the new $250M fund being launched by the State of Florida. After reading it, I became engulfed in a sea of emotions, ranging from frustration to anger, finally settling on a mix of sadness and reflection. The short version: This …
Okay, Atlanta. Now What?
If you care at all about the Atlanta startup ecosystem, Mike Blake and I humbly request your presence next week at the monthly Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs meeting (18th at the ATDC). Mike Schinkel and the AWE gang have graciously invited Unblakeable and I to present our views of where Atlanta is right now, where we’re …
A Dozen Ways to get Rejected from CapitalLounge
We get a TON of applications every time we put together a CapitalLounge event. While most of the applications have some degree of merit, and eventually get accepted, there are many that don’t. Historically, we have a non-invitation rate of anywhere from 20-30%. Despite the enormous level of detail that we’ve published as to our …
Captain Anonymous and His View of Atlanta’s Startup Scene
Lately I’ve been getting some blog comments and Skribit “suggestions” from an anonymous visitor. Let’s just say the comments haven’t been terribly “engaging” – some of them have actually been quite nasty. And look, I’ll be the first to admit this – I cuss like a sailor (well, a former soldier), and believe me, I …