Sherry Heyl and Jeff Hilmore have announced a new event for technology and marketing professionals called Roller Coaster Mashup. What a cool idea and it’s pretty simple: get a bunch of geeks and marketing pros together on the Mind Bender at Six Flags Over Atlanta and see what happens.
I’ve been out of town all […]
If you haven’t tuned in to Paul Graham’s essays, you’re missing out on a guy who (1) is a really really great writer (i.e. communicates clearly) and (2) IMHO really understands the new “capital-light” web services startup paradigm. We need to get something like his YCombinator going in Atlanta. His latest essay is another gem; […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Tonight, I attended the 1st Annual Entrepreneurial Leadership event at Emory University. I was invited by Dave Williams (via Toby Bloomberg and Sherry Heyl) to come and blog. Wow, how forward thinking is that to have a blogger attend?
I won’t spare you with my crazy adventures trying to get from Alpharetta to Emory […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Last Tuesday we organized another social event for entrepreneurs at our usual location, The Globe. Even though Emory was on spring break, we still had a good 25 or so people show up, and about 12 of us ended up going to dinner afterwards at Utopia nearby. I woke up with 200 pesos in my […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )As an entrepreneur, I’ve often heard the VC mantra of “we’re value add investors“. Most entrepreneurs quickly realize that most VCs aren’t value add. If they aren’t adding value, you hope that they’re at least value neutral but in reality most are value subtracting to your business. The benefit of their investment […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Big Thinkr is a collection of former, current, and repeat entrepreneurs trying to improve the entrepreneurial community in Atlanta, Georgia, and the Southeast.
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