“A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why i read so much.” -Tyrion Lannister In a classic exchange between Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister, Tyrion describes why he reads so much. One of my largest regrets in 2015…
Preparing The Globe Theatre The banana is still green but shades of a prescient, yellow harvest is on the way. Yesterday’s product announcement of PeopleSpark, a brainchild of Bigcommerce co-founder and board member Mitch Harper, is another telling sign that people’s feedback is more than an interesting niche…
Hosting 29 Atlanta Startup Villages has provided significant exposure toabout 125 early stage technology companies [https://atlantastartupcommunity.wordpress.com/](we’ve had a few that had 4 companies present). Each early stage company has a unique story. What they do, why they should be on stage, and most importantly who’…
A few months ago, over an entertaining and always-enlightening dinner with one of Atlanta’s most active investors and entrepreneurs, he expressed an insight elicited among the West Coast investor community that still resonates heavily in how we build Rivalry. The insight revolved around investments into companies with real customers.…
[/content/images/wordpress/2015/07/a-few-good-men-Tom-Cruise-Lt-Daniel-Kaffee-1024x578.jpg] Going to market is extremely difficult. An entrepreneur must earn the prospect’s time, convince them your software is worth using, and provide value where it saves their business significant money, time, and resources. This is all before we get to pricing! Entrepreneurs…
Whether you’re starting a company, building a product, or shaping public policy, each one always start with an idea. It’s not just one “aha!” idea. The difficulty in all 3 rests in the organization, analysis, and prioritization of mixed and mashed ideas timed around history, social forces, timing…
The most compelling software in the world prods decisions. While on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, Salesforce you have so many decisions for hundreds of data points. Every piece of content has a myriad of decisions to take ranging from favoriting/liking, commenting, retweeting, blocking, replying, updating, or clicking, just to…
Working at Rivalry (sales coaching software [http://rivalry.com]) in the Atlanta Tech Village creates some unique experiences. One of them is being exposed to many types of SasS businesses. A few days ago, I was talking with an entrepreneur about the difference between really fast growing startups and ones…