Start-ups
A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South
This is my first “Google Docs” interview, which means I conducted it entirely over Google Docs. I realized that I enjoy interviewing startup friends about their business, but sending them a bunch of questions and having them reply didn’t allow for me to react to their answers, and honestly, if I actually interviewed them over…
Read MoreI’m getting excited about this year’s Venture Atlanta conference
Venture Atlanta is by far my favorite startup event of the year. It’s the largest culmination of entrepreneurs and investors in the Southeast. Each year the list of presenting companies gets better and this year is certainly no exception. Fortunately, David Cummings put a list of the companies on his blog, so I grabbed them…
Read MoreStartup CEOs should not play the odds
I’m in the middle of the book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, by Ben Horowitz, and I LOVE IT. It will almost definitely make my list of books I recommend. The above quote is spot on about the mindset that a CEO / entrepreneur must have.…
Read MoreThink of your startup like a beach volleyball team
I had the great fortune last week to be able to meet Stanford Business School professor, Huggy Rao. What an amazing guy and rest assured, I’ll be referencing him in many blog posts in the future as I have pages upon pages of notes from his talk, plus I’m reading his book, Scaling Up Excellence,…
Read MoreI was blown away when I visited the Center for Civic Innovation!
I get to hear about a lot of great non-profit / community efforts in Atlanta. One thing I love about this city is it really embraces “giving back”. This week I met with an amazing guy (Rohit) who has started The Center for Civic Innovation, and I was BLOWN AWAY. Freaking awesome concept. According to the…
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