Microsoft Powerpoint vs Google Presentations

April 11, 2013

Recently, we have worked more and more with Google Presentations, instead of Microsoft Powerpoint. Slides are constantly getting tweaked, and we do not run Windows on most of our computers (we mainly use Linux).  Here are my impressions of the advantages and disadvantages of Google Presentations: Advantages of Google Presentations Collaboration, especially for our Linux users that don’t […]

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10 Days at the Atlanta Tech Village

April 10, 2013

Ten days ago we graduated from ATDC and moved out “on our own.” Well, “on our own” turned out to be surrounded by high-energy startups and the awesome work-in-progress that is the Atlanta Tech Village. Here are some observations about that energy: The co-working space on the second floor is abuzz with people and the spark […]

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Parallel Software Development Trends for Dummies [Reblog]

April 9, 2013

As a continuation of my posts to help you understand the AccelerEyes business, I continue today with important trends in parallel software development. The biggest challenge to the next decade of improved performance in computing will be defined by how the industry adapts to parallel software development challenges. To understand more, head over to our company blog: […]

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Knowledge Leadership and Working with the Press

April 8, 2013

Today I was pleasantly surprised to see our company featured in the top headline of HPCwire, one of the biggest news outlets for our industry. To my recollection, it had been nearly 4 years since we were featured so prominently on HPCwire. The previous time was in conjunction with v1.0 release of our first product. […]

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A Revenue Spike and Its Fallout

April 7, 2013

We launched our first commercial product in January 2009. In the following 10 months, we lived without a sales process. One of my co-founders and I processed orders as they came in the door and tried to respond in a timely manner to inbound emails. As for outbound work, it was the best we could […]

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Betting on a Technology Trend

April 6, 2013

Startups often have to bet on a technology trend. Most are founded on the cusp of a shift in how technology is affecting a market. Those early cusps can go deep and be big, or they can peter out and be lame. In 2007, our technical and high-performance computing market was just beginning to explore […]

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Friday Lunch Conversation about “Invest Georgia”

April 5, 2013

Membership in the Atlanta Tech Village means free Friday lunches and opportunity to serendipitously meet other people in the tech/startup ecosystem. Today was my first Friday lunch and I enjoyed a conversation with Knox Massey and Kenji Kuramoto. I’ve known Kenji for a long time, but Knox is someone I’ve been following on Twitter for years and have never previously […]

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Unpaid Internships

April 4, 2013

This year we’ve received 4 requests for unpaid developer internships. There is strong demand for people to come work at AccelerEyes and learn excellence in GPU and parallel computing. Initially we were very excited about these opportunities. What could be better than free labor, right? However, as we’ve recently been expanding our team, we now […]

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A Naïve Mistake and Its Fix

March 31, 2013

When we jumped into AccelerEyes 6 years ago, none of us founders had seen anything other than engineering school. Our work experience amounted to a few summer internships. We were ripe for a making naïve mistakes. We understood our naïvety at the time, and we looked for trusted advisors on all the important issues. However, as we […]

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Decline of Management

March 30, 2013

Scott Adams, founder of the Dilbert cartoon, is one of my favorite columnists to read. He’s often insightful, counter-intuitive, and funny. This week he posted a startup-related article talking about the general decline of management in organizations. His point is that technology provides a greater fluidity of communication than ever before, which eliminates the need […]

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