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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 …

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Michael Turner Owning Michael Blake

My StartupLounge.com partner in crime Mike Blake is gonna hate me for this, but I can’t help myself. Besides sharing a deep-rooted passion for helping entrepreneurs, we also share a fanatical love of video games – good ones, bad ones, doesn’t matter.  Lately, we’ve been playing Madden NFL 2009 a few nights a week on …

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My New Adventure

The day after I left PlayMotion, I decided that I was going to take a little time away and clear my head and figure out what my next “thing” was going to be.  About 2 days later, I was approached by a friend of mine (Michael McChesney) about taking over the operations of one of …

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Date Correction!

Regarding Mike’s presentation at the upcoming TAG/ATDC Entrepreneur meeting – the correct date is March 6th, not the 5th! Cheers.

CapConn Wrapup

Wow, what a rush. We had a great time the other night at our latest StartupLounge.com Capital Connections event.  It is absolutely amazing how the community has embraced this grassroots movement. We had 250-300 entrepreneurs and investors there at the peak of things. I’m still waiting to get the pics from the photographer, and as …

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Free Financial Modeling for Entrepreneurs

If you are an early-stage entrepreneur, and need help with your financial modeling, you can’t beat this deal. Cheers.

StartupLounge.com Reboot

I know that many of you (including me) have been trying to enjoy the holidays and relax a bit. However, I wanted to interrupt your holiday programming to let you know that for the past couple of months we’ve been heads down working on the next version of the StartupLounge.com site. In short, we are …

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Goodbye, Sam

PlayMotion has enjoyed a long relationship with Wheeler High School here in Atlanta. Wheeler has a great magnet program in mathematics, science, and technology. We have had great experiences using Wheeler students as interns over the past few years. Yesterday, I received a terrible phone call from the Wheeler folks, letting us know that Sam …

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PlayMotion Heading to NextFest

In just a few hours, I’ll board a plane with 3 or 4 others from our team to head from Atlanta to Los Angeles, where we’ll be participating in WIRED’s NextFest. We’ll be joining the PlayMotion advance party which is already on the ground getting everything setup. This year, we’re demo’ing something very, very cool …

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My new role at PlayMotion

After a couple of years spent casually tracking the company and several months of building a relationship with the team at PlayMotion!, I am thrilled about joining them officially as the company’s CEO (I actually joined quietly a few months ago.) I was honored by their invitation, and we wasted no time in focusing our …

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