If there’s anything watching the news has taught me, it’s that excessive spending and uncontrolled growth will ultimately lead to a big crash. Sure, when the times are good and your customers are paying for your R&D, growth or fancy company retreats, more = better. However, during the tough times when most people are double clipping their cash to make sure it stays in their pocket, have excess fat on your operations could cost ya in the long run and chances are the government will not bail YOU out.
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In an effort to justify my whining over the last few weeks over the dissatisfaction of the Atlanta early-stage startup scene, I’ve decided to help be a part of the solution than to sit around and do nothing.
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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…
In case you haven’t heard all the chatter, Atlanta entrepreneurs are tired of being ignored and/or forced out of the city just to get some recognition. It’s gotten so bad that we actually formed various communities determined to help each other succeed; with or without financial support from the able.
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At the most recent meeting of the Atlanta Gang of 5, the subject of marketing using SEO/SEM came up. Like most conversations about SEM, the discussion went something like this:
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