Four Must-Know Atlanta Service Providers

January 7, 2014

After spending some time in the startup world, it becomes clear that there are some great Atlanta service providers that get recommended all the time. They understand startups. They are great at what they do. Today I want to take a moment to mention four Atlanta service providers that fall into this category: Accounting / […]

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Limiting User Choice Is A Feature

January 6, 2014

Think about your experience at a restaurant with too many options. The owner thinks they are giving you the ability to have anything you want and you are thinking, “oy, vey, can’t you just give me a few well curated options? Yet the restaurant owners, chefs and waiters know every item on the menu by heart […]

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Hardcore Software Engineering Anecdotes

January 5, 2014

I am constantly proud of the software engineers working with me. They are awesome and push boundaries of excellence. Our company is all about pushing software performance. We sell to people that are already really good at software, which means we have to be all that much better at what we do. It is the […]

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Searching for Office Space

January 4, 2014

After a wonderful year in the Atlanta Tech Village, it is time for us to find a larger space in which to grow. In Q1, we are searching for a new home for our team. Having a great office is important for company culture. Here are the things we are looking for: Buckhead or Perimeter […]

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Attracting Former Colleagues as a Measure of Leadership

January 3, 2014

I recently heard an interesting way to measure leadership goodness. Good leaders are able to attract former colleagues to become part of their future companies. They do not burn bridges. They inspire. They motivate excellence. And former colleagues remember those feelings. In startups, there are often times when co-founders or early employees depart the company […]

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Investing Money

January 2, 2014

I’m always interested to hear what people do with their money. Many live on the edge of their income, and that is uninteresting. Others save for retirement in low-risk accounts, and that is fine but boring. Retirement accounts and 401(k)’s are for BigCos, not for entrepreneurs. The most interesting are those that re-invest their money to […]

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On Hitting Startup Rhythm

December 30, 2013

The last everyday system that has been super impactful this year is our decision to follow the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to hit startup rhythm. EOS has a number of steps and is not implemented in a day. However, with careful attention to the details, we have implemented half of the system over the past few […]

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The Promises of Pre-Revenue Startups

December 23, 2013

Pre-revenue startups are in a class of their own. They are able to make outlandish assertions and get away with them since they are not beholden to data. Pre-revenue startups are able to model customer acquisition with the most “conservative” estimates that they can dream up. Other assertions and assumptions are made. For instance, pre-revenue […]

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Debugging Software

December 21, 2013

Software bugs happen. Always. The way teams and managers react upon discovering software bugs is revealing. Good programmers are delineated from great programmers not as much by their ability to develop code, but by their ability to find, fix, and avoid bugs. Bugs are expensive. It is not uncommon for the costs of debugging to […]

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Cognition-as-a-Service

December 20, 2013

With the success of the SaaS business model, other “as-a-service” options are appearing. One of these is cognition-as-a-service. In the past few years, artificial intelligence enabled products have begun to emerge. Examples of AI-enabled products include: Siri from iOS Wolfram Alpha IBM’s Watson Key advancements in natural language processing have made these developments possible. The […]

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