Earlier this week, I attended a set of company pitches by startups trying to raise venture capital money. I was wearing my investor hat, not my Georgia Tech hat. The organizer asked for my feedback. I gave it to her. I figured it was worth sharing here, with the identifiable details REDACTED to protect the guilty: The [COMPANY REDACTED] … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Midtown Atlanta Apple Store
August 4, 2011 by
Putting the final touches on Midtown Atlanta's new Apple store (Spring Street and Armstead Place). … [Read more...]
Angry Birds Challenge
July 10, 2011 by
I've been spending way too much time with Angry Birds lately. One of the variant games (Angry Birds Seasons) has been releasing one new level every day, and I can't go to sleep until I get three stars. I haven't updated this post yet, but I have three stars on every level released so far from the basic game and both the Seasons and Rio variants. … [Read more...]
iPhone/iPad Lockscreens
July 7, 2011 by
Last week, I managed to leave my iPhone in a different building across campus. Boneheaded move, I know. But it was returned to me before I even finished my next meeting (in yet a third building on campus)... before I even realized it was missing! How? I'd gone to the trouble of setting up a custom lock screen for my iPhone (and my iPad; see … [Read more...]
Tom Sawyer’s Fence
July 1, 2011 by
There is an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China. --Spock, Star Trek VI When I took over EI2 two years ago, one of the first things I did was merge ATDC and VentureLab. It was the right thing to do at the time... but times have changed. Nina Sawczuk has been director of Startup Services for almost a year and has ambitious growth … [Read more...]
Immigration and the Startup Visa
June 30, 2011 by
A few weeks ago, I was at a Georgia Tech student event, the Convergence Innovation Competition. I was incredibly impressed by the quality of the student entrepreneurs. They were mostly Master's candidates in Computing or Electrical Engineering, While still at the competition, I tweeted: Of the first 28 student entrepreneurs I've met in … [Read more...]
“Everyone wants the next Silicon Valley.”
June 30, 2011 by
Bruce Guile on replicating Silicon Valley: I am certain it would be possible to create a two-hour global video montage composed entirely of short clips of political leaders, government executives, university presidents, real estate developers and even some high-tech executives standing at a podium announcing that their project would create the … [Read more...]
“The global climate movement has become the kind of embarrassment intellectuals like to ignore.”
June 28, 2011 by
Great column by Walter Russell Mead. Read the whole thing, but here's an excerpt: The global green treaty movement to outlaw climate change is the most egregious folly to seize the world’s imagination since the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war in the late 1920s. The idea that the nations of the earth could agree on an enforceable treaty … [Read more...]
Where Do We Put the Sidewalks?
June 27, 2011 by
I'm not a Catholic, nor a right-winger, but I loved this quote: the mandate to care for the poor and the vulnerable need not necessarily translate into state action: We are commanded to feed the hungry, not to vote for the guy who will tax another guy to pay another guy to run an agency to feed the hungry. via Gay Marriage: Where Do We Put … [Read more...]
Maserati in Tech Square
June 25, 2011 by
Continuing my series of quick snapshots of cool cars in Tech Square. … [Read more...]
