Software Patents – Policy vs Strategy

September 3, 2013

The very first expense we incurred as a business was a legal expense associated with filing a patent on our invention in the area of GPU and accelerator software. Filed in 2007, the patent finally issued on Christmas Day last year. We now enjoy a time-limited monopoly. Strategy Applying for that early patent and our […]

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The Blessing of Work – A Shout Out for Labor Day

September 2, 2013

Last week, Peggy Noonan put up an editorial in the WSJ that was beautiful in its description of the blessing of work as part of a celebration of Labor Day. I liked these parts of the article: A job isn’t only a means to a paycheck, it’s more. “To work is to pray,” the old […]

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Thoughts on Remote Employees

September 1, 2013

Some startups are passionate about avoiding remote employees. Others are passionate about being distributed with employees all over the world, like Buffer and KISSmetrics. At AccelerEyes, we have a mixed approach. Default to Onsite In most cases, we work with new employees to relocate to Atlanta. There are many wonderful reasons to be here. There are […]

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Marketing Companies in Atlanta

August 31, 2013

Atlanta is the worldwide hub for marketing technology. The presence of so many excellent sales and marketing companies in Atlanta is a competitive advantage for everyone here. For startups like AccelerEyes, this means that we get to integrate these great technologies into our businesses before other geographies catch on. Pulling from the blogs of David […]

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Startups Serving Startups

August 30, 2013

One class of startup companies is those that are formed to sell primarily to other startups. There are pros and cons associated with serving other startups The Cons Startups don’t have much money! Startups are composed of some of the scrappiest work-arounders alive; they want to work around you Startups want to sell more than […]

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Messy Code Bases Are Like Messy Kitchens

August 29, 2013

One of the biggest avoidable mistakes of startups (and projects within big companies) is a messy code base. Imagine serving up meal after meal from your kitchen without cleaning up between meals. You could probably go a very long time serving up meals while people in the dining room remain oblivious to what’s going on […]

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Working On (Not In) Your Startup

August 27, 2013

As a startup matures and delegated processes take hold, founders can begin to come up for air rather than be mired in all the details of working “in” the startup. This coming up for air enables the founders to work “on” the business, as opposed to “in” it. Working “on” the startup can take on […]

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The Startup Cheat Sheet

August 26, 2013

An excellent post made the rounds recently containing a 100 tips in a startup cheat sheet. I pulled a few of the tips out for discussion in tonight’s post: 3) Should founders vest? Yes, over a period of four years. On any change of control the vesting speeds up. All of our profits interest unit […]

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Software Licensing Problems in Technical and HPC Markets

August 25, 2013

The technical and high-performance computing (HPC) markets are stuck in a conundrum of software licensing models. Over the last decade, the balance of software licensing models has shifted from installed software to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Yet very little purchased software in the technical and HPC markets has made the transition to the increasingly more popular SaaS […]

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Third Step to Implement EOS: Meeting Rhythm

August 23, 2013

Continuing with the series on implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), today I share the 3rd of 7 steps. The 3rd step is called, “Meeting Rhythm.” Traction begins the section on Meeting Rhythm with the following quote: For now and forever, let’s dispel the myth that all meetings are bad, that meetings are a waste […]

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