Archive for May, 2007

Tell a Story, not a Pitch

Posted on May 15th, 2007.

Instead of giving a pitch, tell a story. You have heard how important it is to have an elevator pitch. A short, concise description of your company. Short enough to give it on an elevator ride. We solve the problem of blah, blah. The goal is in that one bright shining moment, your vision [...]

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BigThinkrs on LinkedIn

Posted on May 12th, 2007.

In an effort to improve communications between entrepreneurs in the southeast, we’ve setup a group within LinkedIn (named creatively enough - BigThinkr) for interested parties to join. The biggest benefit of having and joining this group is that you can send requests directly to others in the group without having to go through the [...]

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How Are You Getting Paid?

Posted on May 10th, 2007.

Crossposted from my blog:
The big date approaches for our first Capital Connections event here in Atlanta. The response has been so tremendous that we’ve had to change the venue - we went WAY over the capacity of our original venue. We currently have over 150 entrepreneurs and investors that will be in attendance. Given that [...]

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Why don’t southeastern VCs blog?

Posted on May 9th, 2007.

We had a great turnout tonight at our YnR entrepreneurs mixer - the first one for the North Atlanta crowd. OK - not exactly North Atlanta, Sanjay, that was ITP. But, a great location: Five Seasons Brewing - the one just off Roswell Road. That alone made it worth it. When [...]

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GTronix rasies $10.25M Series C

Posted on May 7th, 2007.

Jafco Ventures led the round and was joined by Menlo Ventures, who had invested in prior rounds. GTronix is a ATDC company and received seed financing from the Georgia Tech VentureLab. The company is now headquartered in Fremont, CA, but has an engineering center in Atlanta.
GTronix has exclusively licensed two patents for cooperative analog-digital signal [...]

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