The Elements of a Great Management Team Meeting

April 29, 2014

I like to use the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to manage startups. One component of EOS is a meeting pulse with an emphasis on useful high-quality meetings. Today I ran across a great informative video about how to implement a Level 10 Meetings (“level 10” just means really good). It is very useful. We have […]

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14 Attributes of Good Education

April 28, 2014

I often post thoughts about education on this blog. Having spent overly many years in school myself, it’s something that I like to think about. I recently ran across some interesting points by John Gatto that articulate 14 things schools should accomplish. These things have a lot in common with the spirit of entrepreneurship, so […]

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Startup CEOs

April 27, 2014

Being CEO is the loneliest job in the world. — Jeff Haynie (@jhaynie) April 16, 2014 Being a startup CEO is not about glamour. It’s about holding the pieces of chaos together. It’s about keeping the right people in the right seats with the right direction and the right attitude. It’s about culture. Some of […]

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Immigration for Talented Engineers is Ridiculous

April 24, 2014

Finding talented and qualified high-end engineers for our business is super hard. I’ve written about it many times before. Because it is so hard, we cast a worldwide net looking to hire the best CUDA and OpenCL programmers from around the world. If we find talented non-US citizens, we pay the legal and immigration fees […]

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The Two Functions of Leadership

April 23, 2014

I have been thinking a lot about leadership recently. We are in the process of onboarding a new team member aimed at becoming an integrator for ArrayFire. We are also bringing onboard new team members to independently flesh out two new startup ideas. These new team members will be leaders of those ideas and the market investigation process […]

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Two Upcoming Atlanta Startup Events

April 22, 2014

There are two upcoming Atlanta startup events worth considering: Failcon – Saturday April 26 FailCon is a one-day conference for technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their own and others’ failures and prepare for success. I’m excited by the list of speakers and for my opportunity to participate on one of the panels. […]

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Tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village #17 Recap

April 21, 2014

There was another great Atlanta Startup Village tonight in the beautiful new Atlanta Tech Village event space. I love the energy and fresh ideas at these events. What astounds me most is the number of new faces that show up. About 50% of the attendees are first time participants. It is clear that there is […]

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Startup Mentorship Opportunities in Atlanta

April 20, 2014

Entrepreneurship is a contact sport. You can’t learn it by reading about it. — Keith McGreggor (@keithmcgreggor) April 19, 2014 Last week I attended an event at ATDC for people interested in mentoring startups. I came away impressed with all the activity going on around Georgia Tech for startups. To help out the cause, I’m […]

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What Do You Do With Your Startup Idea?

April 19, 2014

Over the past year, our team has developed new ideas that might become new startup opportunities for us. This summer we have brought onboard new team members to develop these ideas. Today I was formalizing the initial email describing the things we will do when we begin working together. I think the email is a good outline for […]

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Thoughts on Having Your Software Pirated

April 18, 2014

This week I ran across a website that showed our primary product being offered as a pirated “.rar” file. Whoever is responsible for this website and offering our software for download does not have our permission and is breaking the law. In this post I share some of my thoughts on having your startup’s software […]

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