Start-Up’s We Want You! Now Is the Time to Submit your Application for Start-Up Council, Taking Place on September 21
Calling all start-up companies located throughout the Southeast, Start-Up Council, a group of industry experts committed to supporting the next generation of emerging companies, is now accepting applications for its next fall Forum taking place on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Application forms can be found here: http://bit.ly/qax7fg. Created in 2006, the Start-Up Council is a forum providing gratis counsel to entrepreneurs launching new businesses by providing guidance on public relations, social marketing, funding, legal, business development, outsourced manufacturing, marketing and branding. Each quarter, Start-Up Council offers…
What Can You Build in 48 Hours?
While the majority of Atlantans were out enjoying the sunny, 65 degree weather this past weekend, a group of 100+ entrepreneurs were hard at work developing the next best start-up company. Start Atlanta took place this past weekend at ATDC on Georgia Tech’s campus. Formerly known as Atlanta Startup Weekend, Start Atlanta is a weekend event where Atlanta’s top entrepreneur’s team up to launch companies over the span of just a few days. In the past the companies that were developed have been weighted towards…
Atlanta Startups: Start Your Engines
In case you missed last week’s article in TechView Atlanta we wanted to take a few minutes to talk directly to Atlanta’s startup community. Over the past four years Trevelino/Keller’s Startup Council has offered guidance to 50 companies in the local-Atlanta community. But to back up a bit, Startup Council was first implemented to provide entrepreneurs a support system for startups throughout the southeast. The Council holds quarterly events where entrepreneurs gather in a roundtable format with a variety of business experts for advice and…
The Business of WordPress
Last week I attended a conference at the Georgia Tech Research Institute regarding the business of WordPress. Now I, along with many interested in the blogging arena, am familiar with WordPress. It immediately pops into our heads as an option for a free blog platform, comparable to Google’s Blogger. Well, I left the conference a changed person, shame on me for thinking all WordPress offered was a basic starter template. Recently WordPress released version 3.0 and has transformed into, as some would say,…
Attending the Recent S.E.V.C.
There was much one could take away from this past week’s SEVC Conference. Was it a gathering of Struggling Entrepreneurs Visiting from all over the Country? Or Smart English speaking Venture Capitalists looking for promising companies. How about Successful Entrepreneurs seeking money from Victimized Capitalists? The fact is, there’s some truth in all of those labels to this year’s Southeast Venture Conference. For a third annual, I was impressed with what appeared to be a packed house and few leftover badges. I was also pleased…
Armageddon Will Have to Wait
Doom and gloom. The phrase or mood of the day … that is, any day you turn on cable news, read the paper, open up to a Yahoo default screen. Wall Street, in all its aggressive financial gaming, is tryingto siphon away the spirit, the promise and the pursuit of even a modest form of happiness. That’s all most of us seek … a modest form of happiness. One that pays the bills, clothes us, keeps a roof overour heads, enables us to fuel our…
