The community effect at the Atlanta Tech Village

For those that haven’t visited the Atlanta Tech Village – David Cummings‘ tech/startup building in Buckhead – you’re really missing out. It’s incredible (here’s a look at the new first floor via David’s blog) and it just keeps getting better as more floors are completed. I set up shop in the Village back in September…

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Part 4: Why you should run your startup like a sports team

In Part 1: Why you should run your startup like a sports team, I talked about the importance of having a Common Goal and how that applies to both startups and sports teams. In Part 2, I talked about making sure your startup focuses attention on having the right people and, based on the makeup of the…

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The power of exposure

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of exposure. We settle into our routines in life and because of that comfortability, we aren’t exposed to enough new things. I realized the importance of this when I went through the Leadership Atlanta program in 2012/2013. That experience changed me forever. I now look at…

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5 Questions for a CEO: Brett Jacobsen, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School

This is the seventh installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The first was with Raymond King, CEO of Zoo Atlanta; the second was with Devon Wijesinghe, CEO of Insightpool; the third with Mark Feinberg, CEO of Uruut; the fourth with Simms Jenkins, BrightWave Marketing; the fifth was with Rob Kischuk, CEO of PerfectPost; and the sixth was…

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