Category Archives: Entrepreneurship
Bootstrapping Infographic
Well, more like a wallpaper. Something we whipped for for lols and grins. Enjoy. Click on the image for the larger version. Feel free to share. Cheers.
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 …
Calacanis on Paying-to-Pitch
Jason Calacanis has a new cause. He is railing against the so-called “pay-to-pitch” phenomenon. A good read – check it out here. Update: Scoble, Fred, and Lance have since commented on it as well. My views on the pay-to-pitch thing are pretty well known, as I’ve written about it a ton in the past, and …
Military Lessons Applied to Startups
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jason Jones of CresaPartners, who hosts a podcast called “Battlefield to Business” for Business-to-Business Magazine. If you don’t know Jason, he’s a great guy, and a former naval aviator who served on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise. We had a great candid chat …
Why a Bad Economy Rocks for FOSS/SaaS Startups
The down market seems to be working in our favor. This probably isn’t going to news to some of you, but I thought I’d share a few random thoughts on this. As a FOSS (Free, Open Source Solution) company, that also offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service option, we’re sorting through more deal opportunities than we can …
Lessons From a Launch
I’ve been involved in no less than two dozen software or Internet-related launches in my career. Having just finished the initial launch of StarPound, I thought I’d drop a few notes here about launching. This post will ramble a bit, as I am still really decompressing from the launch. I will preface this by saying …
VC Outlook from Draper Portage
Matt McCall (Draper Portage Ventures) wrote a very interesting post yesterday. In it, he describes the current venture capital landscape as having “flatlined”. Matt is an ultra bright, fairly conservative venture capitalist (at least he was way back when Portage was a key investor in one of my past lives – MetalMaker). A good read …
Must-See Entrepreneurship TV
I’ve started watching (Chef Gordon) Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares on BBC on my cable package. Although I started watching because cooking is a hobby of mine and I’ve always been fascinated by the restaurant business (when I worked at McDonald’s as a kid, I loved it), it has struck me how wonderfully educational the program is …
PitchCamp Update
We had a great time at the recent PitchCamp session. If you haven’t heard of PitchCamp, it is a free workshop that we offer to entrepreneurs to help them better refine their pitch. We also get into some adjacent areas, such as the ins and outs of investor networking, and how to maximize the value …
2008 TAG Summit Wrap-up
Lance wrote a nice bit on today’s Georgia Technology Summit. I agree with everything he said. I’ll pile on a bit more. Pet peeve time. I worked pretty diligently to follow the guidelines that TAG gave us for the Top 10 Innovative Company presentations. Pretty simple: “3 slides, 3 minutes. Any more than that and …