Events / Conferences

Events / Conferences


Startup Riot 2010

11.23.2009 | Comments Off

The third annual Startup Riot will be held on February 17, 2010 at the Atlanta Fox Theatre! A number of things about this year’s competition have been upgraded including the venue, the demo pit, the after party and the cash prizes!

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Startup Weekend – More Cities Announced!

6.03.2008 | Comments Off

If you’ve been following this blog for awhile, you’d probably remember my experience at the Atlanta Startup Weekend where a group of Atlanta entrepreneurs created Skribit in 54 hours.  The experience was really rewarding and it opened up my personal network within the local community.  Not only did I meet a number of like-minded individuals, I still keep in touch with a number of them today.

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Startup Riot – Reviews, Recommendations

5.22.2008 | 1 Comment

This past Monday I attended Startup Riot as an observer. We had originally signed up to pitch but I dropped out last minute due to us not really needing anything. We’re still refining our business to try and rise above the noise so whatever we had wanted to pitch weeks ago would have been outdated by the time the event started.

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Startup Weekend: New Cities in 2008

1.12.2008 | Comments Off

Startup Weekend is now taking votes on which cities they should help build entrepreneurial communities for in 2008. The reason I’m saying that is because they did one heck of a job for Atlanta.

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Partnership, Ownership and the Whole Pie Thing…

10.25.2007 | 3 Comments

We’re still scouring the web and networking events looking for awesome entrepreneurs to join our startup. As we’re checking out various areas on the web and seeing what other people are writing and asking about, there seems to be a common theme among the newbies which is: how much equity or options should I give away to attract raw talent?

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