Needling in Negotiations: The Longer List Wins

May 10, 2014

I recently ran across an excellent James Altucher post on negotiation. One part stood out to me: Have more items than they have. Let’s say you are negotiating a book advance. They offer a $10,000 advance and they can’t budge higher. That’s fine. Now make your list of other things: how much social media marketing […]

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Negotiation Lessons from an Athens Flea Market

May 9, 2014

Today was a touristy day for me in Athens Greece. After visiting the Parthenon, I climbed down the backside of the hill to go to the Athens flea market. Flea markets are a great place to practice negotiation tactics and to sometimes walk away with some interesting things. I had 3 different experiences with 3 […]

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9 Whys That Explain Behavior

May 8, 2014

During the second day of the EO Global Leadership Conference today, I attended a breakout session by Ridgely Goldsborough, author of “The Why Engine.” The book declares that everyone has one and only one “why” that defines how they operate. And there are 9 potential “whys” into which everyone can be categorized. While I don’t […]

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EO Global Leadership Conference Day 1

May 7, 2014

Today was the first day of the EO Global Leadership Conference in Athens Greece. I will be serving on the board of the Atlanta EO chapter this year and am here to learn my duties, to meet other entrepreneurs, and to soak up general leadership and entrepreneurship goodness. The keynote was excellent. The presenter shared […]

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Creating a 90 Second Explainer Video

May 6, 2014

This is the funniest video on HPC I’ve seen so far 😀 — ∇ (@relativetoyou) May 6, 2014 One of the constant complaints from people outside our market over the years is that they do not understand what we do. For years, we have tried to simplify our story to explain. We have used real […]

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ArrayFire Rebranding Mission Accomplished

May 5, 2014

Back in September, I originally posted about the deliberation we were having concerning the rebranding of our company from AccelerEyes to ArrayFire. Today we announced on our company blog that the rebranding has been accomplished. I am super excited about our new website and new intro video. Take a moment to check that out on […]

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Never Compete Only on Price in a Startup

May 3, 2014

I recently spent an hour listening to an entrepreneur share his startup story. After analyzing his business from many angles, I asked the question, “Why would your prospective customers switch from what they are currently doing to use your product?” That’s a powerful question. I wanted to understand the mentality of the prospective customer. This […]

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We Have A New Home!

May 2, 2014

Today we signed a long-term lease on a wonderful office space in the building adjacent to the Atlanta Tech Village. This summer we will be working with interior designers and general contractors to transform the space into a wonderful and fun tech office with a startup vibe. I’ve written before about how we are currently […]

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Foregoing $100k

May 2, 2014

After having initial success with our startup, we ran into issues balancing our academic life (we were PhD students) with our startup life. We became overly concerned that these entanglements would be messy and we wanted to created a crystal clear separation between our academic life and our separate efforts in building our startup. One […]

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Computer Vision for Vein Finding as a Biometric

April 30, 2014

As a computer vision PhD student at Georgia Tech, I constantly searched for interesting computer vision ideas with which to start a company. I explored all sorts of options and kept notes as I discovered interesting ideas. I’ve written about some of my failed grad school attempts at startups before. One of those startup ideas (back in […]

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