Considerations for Startup Office Space

January 7, 2013

At AccelerEyes, for the last 3 years our primary office has been located in ATDC, the southeast’s premier hub for startups. We will be graduating from ATDC this year, and that means we are looking for new office space. Startup office space is a hot topic right now due to David Cumming’s unveiling of Atlanta […]

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Target Idea Brainstorming at a Familiar Audience

January 6, 2013

I recently found a post on Hacker News entitled, “Why Ideas are a Bad Place to Start a Startup.” The post emphasizes a focus on finding an audience as a first priority, followed by understanding their problems, which ultimately paves the way for brainstorming good startup ideas. As a graduate student in computer vision, I […]

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Twitter for Lead Generation and Market Awareness

January 5, 2013

Continuing the theme of tools for processing market information, Twitter deserves special treatment. Twitter is an excellent platform for lead generation and bi-directional market awareness. At AccelerEyes, we enjoy engaging with our market (including leads and paying customers) through Twitter. Lead generation on Twitter is fairly straightforward. We setup continual Twitter searches to monitor conversations […]

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Google Alerts for Monitoring Markets

January 4, 2013

Google Alerts are an important tool for any startup. With thoughtful alerts, you can conveniently monitor conversations, press articles, and competitive developments taking place in realtime throughout your market. Google Alerts are simply regular Google searches that occur several times a day and notify you when new or updated webpages are found which hit the […]

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Google Reader for Discovering Articles

January 3, 2013

Today, I’ll continue the discussion about our process for information processing at AccelerEyes. It has been a vital part of how we built AccelerEyes. I hope this process will also be useful in developing thoughts for this blog. We use two primary feeders for new information and thoughts:  Google Reader and Twitter.  This post is […]

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Instapaper for Processing Articles

January 2, 2013

As I start this new blog, I thought it would be helpful to outline some of the tools I intend to use to process my thoughts into daily startup posts. These tools are part of our daily routine at AccelerEyes. One of the best parts about being an entrepreneur is plugging into the great thought […]

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Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels

January 1, 2013

Happy New Year! I’m celebrating with a new blog to share short daily posts about startups. To kick things off, I’ll share some of the earliest business advice I ever received.  It was from my Grandfather who lived through the Great Depression.  He was fond of saying, “Don’t take any wooden nickels!”  That saying is […]

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