Archive for May 2014
Putting an end to the Atlanta Tech Village debate with Tavani
A little while back, my friend Michael Tavani let loose on the Atlanta Tech Village in a Creative Loafing piece. He was fired up. Then I responded, equally fired up, essentially calling his opinions on the Village absurd and ignorant. Hey, I said I was fired up. Then to Michael’s credit, he decided to come…
Read More5 Questions For a New CEO: Raj Choudhury, BLiNQ Media
This is the eleventh installment of my “5 Questions for a CEO” series. The list so far: Raymond King, Zoo Atlanta Devon Wijesinghe, Insightpool Mark Feinberg, Uruut Simms Jenkins, BrightWave Marketing Rob Kischuk, PerfectPost Kyle Porter, SalesLoft Brett Jacobsen, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School Jacqui Chew, iFusion Marketing Joe Koufman, AgencySparks James Yancey, CloudTags (me, Raghu, Raj and…
Read More“Look up” – nice song/video about our over-technologized lives
Every once in a while I need a reminder that too much technology can be a bad thing. For that purpose, this video is great. Plus, I’m a big fan of The Streets, mainly for this song. And I think this is the same dude.
Read MoreEntrepreneurs need the ability to “shake it off” like little Ethan
We have family friends who have a son named Ethan. When Ethan was little, his parents taught him this thing to do when he fell down and got hurt. They taught him to “shake it off”. It would go like this: Ethan would be running around the yard and he’d trip on the sprinkler and…
Read MoreEven Larry Page (Google co-founder) did everything he could to extend Google’s runway…
I’ve been thinking (and blogging) a lot lately about the importance of extending the runway for startups. Giving a startup enough time to be successful is one of the keys to success. You can do that through funding, or building recurring revenue that allows the company to continue on, or apparently by saving money on…
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