The web home of Scott Burkett: Serial-entrepreneur, tech-geek, dad.
Blogging, opining, ruminating, and pontificating on entrepreneurship, venture capital, process improvement, technology, online communities, business networking, IT Management, online social networking, and other things that melt in the warm Atlanta sun.
"Beneath the noble bird, between the proudest words, behind the beauty, cracks appear ..."
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I just got off the phone with Justin Rubner down at the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He called to solicit my thoughts on the recent PriceWaterhouseCoopers Money Tree report. The fact that he called me should tell you how desperate he must be to find content (*poke*). At any rate, at some point the topic turned to entrepreneurship in this part of the country, and what is potentially wrong with it.
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Startup entrepreneurs spend a lot of their time banging around in the business planning world, and for good reason. Without a solid business plan, raising capital and running a business are very difficult things to do. One area that is often treated tokenly, however, is the selection of a solid advisory board. Going it alone will rarely carry you very far in today’s business environment. Putting together a valued advisory board will pay dividends in almost every area of your business.
Fresh out of the U.S. Army in the 1980s, I decided to pursue my interests in the field of computer programming. I had been involved with computing as a hobbyist since the late 1970s, so it seemed like a normal progression for me at the time.
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Bootstrapping is a sort of “Holy Grail” for entrepreneurs. Those that do it well swear by its power. The disbelievers, as adamant as they are in their opposition to it, are often left behind as the more agile bootstrappers start hitting those critical early milestones. In this piece, I’ll dive into some of my own tips and strategies for bootstrapping your startup. If you have some tips of your own, I welcome you to post a comment!
iBloks is a new media play that recently announced a $3M round of financing, which followed a $500K angel round. Some folks out there have questioned the “utility” value of such a product, and the motives of the investors who parted the linings of their wallets to pony up the $3M.
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Entrepreneurs need to be challenged, and I don’t mean this in solely the purest sense. Sure, they need to feel challenged by what they are trying to achieve. That is part of the “lure” of being an entrepreneur. However, they also need to be challenged by their peers. And on a regular basis. If you are serious about changing the world, read on.
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Bootstrapping the Starbucks Way |
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Atlanta Emulating Silicon Valley |
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The New CIO's Open Source Decision |
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Mornin' Cup: Can Web 2.0 Save the Exchange? |
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Chess and Entrepreneurship |
