Come for the Ride!

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 [...]

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.

AWS has launched this years AWS Start-Up Challenge, a contest for entrepreneurs and start-ups that will award the winner $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, a potential investment offer from Amazon.com, and more. Submissions will be accepted until October 3, 2008.

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 [...]

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.