At the Gang of 5 meeting yesterday, a few of us entrepreneurs gathered to further discuss the chatter that’s going around the Atlanta startup scene. During the conversation, a number of possible solutions were proposed to get something going and many seem like worthy efforts. (More on that later) However, I was surprised to find a post today by Paul Freet that talked about the Hollywood Startup Model which was also something we touched on during the meeting – did you have a spy on us Paul? Read more…
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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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refining our business to try and rise above the noise so whatever we had wanted to pitch weeks ago would have been outdated by the time the event started.
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Entrepreneurship sure is getting easier these days. Years ago, it seemed like my only option to network with local entrepreneurs were schoolmates or Chamber of Commerce events. Yeah, I was young and honestly a bit turned off by the official sounding of “chamber of commerce” so I never went to those.
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