Category: Startups

  • How To Make Your Tech Staffing Vendors Successful

    How To Make Your Tech Staffing Vendors Successful

    Venture Atlanta just announced the companies presenting for 2013. Venture Atlanta companies have raised more than $1, sovaldi sale 140,000,000 in the past, and this year’s group looks to be the best group yet. After reviewing hundreds of applications, Venture Atlanta has made its final selection of 32 early-to late-stage companies to present at this…

  • The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    The Progressive Workplace Series – All My People, Right Here, Right Now

    I recently attended a business lunch in which a panel of VC/PE guys were discussing some of the criteria they use when deciding to invest in a company; listening to them, geriatrician one remark really stuck out: “we pay equal attention  to the team, patient and the product”.  As the CFO of an early stage…

  • Why Do Startups Think Content is Expendable?

    Why Do Startups Think Content is Expendable?

    You got a great idea, website you got some startup funding, your patents and trademarks got squared away, you developed the product, launched it, and you’reworking out the bugs as you wait for the public to embrace it.  Now, how exactly is it they’re going to find you?  (The answer is content, but read on…

  • How Tennessee’s Southland Summit could topple SXSW

    How Tennessee’s Southland Summit could topple SXSW

    By Sarah Lacy On June 17, 2013God damnit. I hate to do this. I really, really hate to do this. But I have to hand it to Nashville. The city is suddenly doing a great job of being nationally relevant. Evidence of this seems to be popping up all around…

  • Why Now is a Good Time to Start a New Company

    Why Now is a Good Time to Start a New Company

    Have you been thinking of starting a new venture? Now may be the best time to start. If you hold out for better market conditions, thumb you may be bypassing a great opportunity. There are definitely areas of overall market risk to keep an eye on – the slowly recovering national economy and a pull-back…

  • Startups: 5K or Ironman?

    Startups: 5K or Ironman?

    I had an experience at Starbucks this week that left me intrigued by the gap I see in major brands between employee engagement and customer engagement. I am an extremely engaged Starbucks fan. To give you an idea of my engagement level: I’ve carried my Starbucks Gold card with pride since 2008, this site I…

  • Hacking the Perfect Office Accessory

    Hacking the Perfect Office Accessory

    How to guide to make a 8′ x 4′ white board for under $20 for your office. Perfect way to hack an office accessory for any company, corporation or startup.

  • Sideqik and Insightpool are growing Atlanta’s digital marketing hub

    Sideqik and Insightpool are growing Atlanta’s digital marketing hub

    Atlanta has long been known as a hub for information security, search financial and health care technology, but what’s next? AirWatch raising $200 million to help enterprises manage mobile devices is only part of the story of what’s coming in the next wave. Atlanta has become a powerhouse  hub of digital marketing technology with three big exits…

  • The Dangerous Game for Startups: Assumptions

    It may seem obvious, web but many times obvious things get ignored … like determining the best profession for yourself and getting on a self-development track that will allow you to be a high achiever in that profession. The gecko logo reminds us that we all have the power to ditch our current occupation and…

  • Ready to Pitch ? Be sure you can Nail these four topics…

    Ready to Pitch ? Be sure you can Nail these four topics…

    In today’s frenetic startup environment, medications any new company has countless things to consider every day: product development, therapy recruiting the right team, defining your place in the market, locating financial backers, convincing customers to give your idea a shot….the list goes on. However, it will be extremely difficult for you to succeed in any…