I’ve gotten into this same conversation with 3 or 4 people this week, and it is one that comes up quite often during my discussions with early-stage technology CEOs here in Atlanta. How do I find seed or angel angel capital in Atlanta so that I can fund my high-tech widget or software company? Raising …
Knox Massey was kind enough to invite me down to last night’s meeting of the Atlanta Technology Angels. While I know many of the members individually, this was the first time I had actually attended one of their monthly meetings. In keeping with the confidential setting of the meeting, I don’t want to reveal anything …
Sorry this post is a day late – I’ve been deluged with emails and other stuff. We just published a nice wrapup and photo gallery of the recent Capital Connections event. Enjoy! If you weren’t able to attend, we hope you can make the next one. We certainly had a blast putting it together, and …
The big date approaches for our first Capital Connections event here in Atlanta. The response has been so tremendous that we’ve had to change the venue – we went WAY over the capacity of our original venue. We currently have over 150 entrepreneurs and investors that will be in attendance. Given that we’ve gone to …
Atlanta is a tough market for early-stage companies, and I (along with many others) spend a great deal of time trying to figure out ways to make it better. No doubt. But one of the things that we don’t do enough of is tout our successes – I am guilty of that as well. On …
The purpose of this post is two-fold. One, to provide an update on the upcoming StartupLounge.com Capital Connections event, and two, to provide some quick tips for entrepreneurs to get the most out of the event. Currently, we have over 60 companies and over 20 investors signed up to attend. We’ll probably hit around 80 …
I’m throwing this topic “Under the Bus” on our next StartupLounge.com podcast, but I can’t sit on this for another week. Will someone please tell me why the following three events are all happening on the same day, and at the same time? AVF – Atlanta Venture Forum TAG/ATDC Entrepreneur’s Society IEI (Mike Vollmer’s group …
From the two high flying deals seen with CoalTek (DFJ) and Range Fuels (Vinod Khosla) to at least two dozen either early-stage companies or commercializable technologies coming out of our universities – the great “Georgia greenrush” is really picking up. The Deal’s Stacey Higginbotham just compiled a list of 35 clean technology startups seeking funding. …
Dow Jones’ VentureOne published a nice report today, outlining how technology IPOs are back. 7 of the 13 IPOs from Q1/2007 were in the IT/tech space: Company Description Amount Raised Post-IPO Value Switch and Data Shared infrastructure facilities provider $198M $757M Mellanox Technologies Communications, storage, and clustered computing products $102M $579M BigBand Networks Network-based platforms …
For those of you who are playing along at home, one of the many problems we have here in Georgia is that the State’s pension funds are not tappable for investment within the private sector. Georgia is one of the few states that doesn’t allow this. This issue has long been considered one of the …