Parallel Entrepreneurship

September 12, 2013

When we first began exploring the idea for AccelerEyes, we had several other ideas cooking simultaneously. I’ve written about those grad school ideas previously. Over the course of 6 months or so, we knew that AccelerEyes was the best bet, so we dropped all the other ideas to focus exclusively on GPU computing and AccelerEyes. […]

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Non-Engineers Managing Engineers

September 11, 2013

One of the toughest thing for non-engineering startup founders to do is to manage engineers. I have seen many companies manage engineers poorly. Many former AccelerEyes employees lament their new jobs and the way they are managed in their new firms. At AccelerEyes, engineers are the rainmakers. They are respected. Their input informs everything we […]

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Customer Support for Software Startups

September 10, 2013

Yesterday I posted about the need for great quality assurance in software development. Closely correlated to that is the need for great customer support. Ben Chestnut of MailChimp posted a masterful piece on customer support that turns funnels on their head. His point is that you can do a lot with great customer support. You can even replace […]

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Quality Assurance in Software Development

September 9, 2013

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Tiptoes into a bar. Rams into a bar. Jumps into a bar. — Adrian Zyga (@VolPL) September 4, 2013 Quality assurance separates great software from the remaining sea of hopelessly buggy and detrimentally bad code. Quality […]

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Inspirational Startup Videos

September 8, 2013

This weekend I came across the new Domino’s commercial that is awesome for saying that startups rely on pizza. That is true. We ate a lot of pizza during the first several years of our startup (which is correlated with my recent Disco Kroger post on losing weight). Here’s the commercial: The commercial reminded me of other […]

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Entrepreneurship as a Viable Option

September 7, 2013

More than anything, the belief that starting a company is a viable option is what separates entrepreneurs from non-entrepreneurs. –From Francisco Dao at PandoDaily I’ve written before about reasons why you should join a startup over a BigCo. I use those reasons while I’m recruiting people to come join our team. BigCo’s rely on a […]

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List of Atlanta Startup Exits

September 6, 2013

Stephen Fleming led a crowdsourced effort today to make a list of Atlanta startup exits. People immediately responded to call. The list has received a steady stream of anonymous updates all day long. There are currently 8 anonymous people editing the worksheet. The information in there is valuable. Ten hours ago, the spreadsheet contained $25B in […]

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The Value of Deal Information for Motivating Entrepreneurs

September 4, 2013

Every year, many entrepreneurs in Atlanta (and around the world) do big deals that personally provide them with big returns on their startup investment. Unfortunately, most of the details of those deals are often sealed. Taking acquisitions as an example, here are the scenarios that occur: What is most often said:  “Company A acquired Company B.”  […]

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