Archive for May, 2007

facebook Kool-Aid ?

Posted on May 31st, 2007.

Once every year or two some new web business model or web technical innovation catches my eye and gives me a rush of manic adrenaline: Oh My GOD, The World Has Changed, This Is Huge, Massive Value Will Be Created/Destroyed, Don’t Ya’ll See What This Means? My wife chuckles and rolls her eyes (’here we […]

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Focus on a market need

Posted on May 31st, 2007.

Which is more likely to lead to a successful startup business?

I have a brilliant idea for an awesome new technology It rocks!.
I work in the … industry and our biggest challenge is … And I have a simple solution to solve it.

When we ‘relaunched’ Racemi in 2002, we had a terrific technology roadmap and were […]

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Seed and Angel Capital Strategies for Atlanta

Posted on May 28th, 2007.

Crossposted from my blog. I haven’t been doing a good job of crossposting. Man, we really need to sit down and write a plugin (or find one) that will just pull in posts from our feeds. This crossposting crap is for the birds.
I’ve gotten into this same conversation with 3 or 4 […]

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Be Flexible - Assume your business model will change

Posted on May 24th, 2007.

I read a great post on Seth Godin’s blog today about Starbucks. many people, myself included, praise Starbucks for their brilliant business model. Of how they recognized the need for a friendly place to meet and have coffee at any time of day. Their founders must have been genuis to have that idea right out […]

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If You’re Not Reading VentureHacks, You Should

Posted on May 19th, 2007.

If you have raised venture capital, or are thinking of raising venture capital, you have got to spend some time on www.venturehacks.com and check back regularly. This quote from the site pretty much sums it up:
The VCs know more than you do. You, the entrepreneur, negotiate a term sheet once every few years. You negotiate […]

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