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Startup Weekend in Atlanta - November 9-11

Posted on September 10th, 2007.

A lot of people have written about Startup Weekend coming to Atlanta but I thought I’d give it one more plug.  If you are at all interested in starting a company over a weekend and have any level of abilities (marketing, coding, design, getting food, etc.), then make sure you sign up for this event.  [...]

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HP Acquires Atlanta Security Firm SPI Dynamics

Posted on June 21st, 2007.

HP announced this week they are acquiring SPI Dynamics. SPI Dynamics launched their first product, WebInspect, a security scanner in April 2001. They raised a Series A round in early 2002, led by Southesatern Technology Fund out of Huntsville. Other investors in the Series A included local firm Gray Ventures, C&B Capital and Jemison [...]

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Summer Reading List for Entrepreneurs

Posted on June 7th, 2007.

Summer is a great time for reading. Lazy weekend afternoons. Quiet evenings on the back porch after putting the kids to bed and it is still light out. A day at the lake or at the beach. Plenty of down time to get in some reading. To keep you from reading trashy novels, I have [...]

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Bert Ellis’ Brash Entertainment raises $400M in start-up funding

Posted on June 4th, 2007.

Bert Ellis’ partner is movie producer Thomas Tull, who produced “300″. The company, which is now based in Hollywood, intends to publish of videogames based on movies and other entertainment properties. They have raised $400 million from Abry Partners which led the deal along with New York Life Capital Partners and PPM America. The bare [...]

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YnR Social Hour + A call to female entrepreneurs

Posted on June 2nd, 2007.

On Tuesday the 5th, we’ll be organizing another YnR social event. As most readers of this blog know, these events are totally informal and are an opportunity for entrepreneurs to unwind and, possibly, to get each other excited and start companies together. If you aren’t already on the list and would like to [...]

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