by Dean Trevelino | Jun 4, 2014 | Blog
“Stay away from the light. Tell her quickly. The light is dangerous! Don’t go near it! Don’t even look at the light!” Depending on your generation, you may or may not recall those chilling words from the psychic in Poltergeist, but thankfully YouTube...
by Dean Trevelino | Apr 25, 2014 | Blog
Silicon Valley (especially Yahoo!) is paying some serious attention to local entrepreneurs. A few weeks ago, we shared Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer’s interest in acquiring Atlanta startup News Distribution Network, Inc. Now, Maynard Webb, Chairman of Yahoo! is investing...
by Dean Trevelino | Apr 21, 2014 | Blog
With venture capital investments growing at a faster right than ever before, it’s not a bad time to be a startup. According to the MoneyTree report released last week, investors dished out double the amount to startups this past quarter than they did during the...
by Dean Trevelino | Apr 7, 2014 | Blog
Notorious for making Yahoo “cool” again, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been on a buying spree since she joined the company in July 2012. Over the past two years, she has acquired about two dozen startups and, with Yahoo making a comeback at a breakneck pace, she has no...
by Dean Trevelino | Mar 21, 2014 | Blog
“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.” This is the advice that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt offered Sheryl Sandberg when she was first offered a job at Google that she was hesitant to accept. As...
by Dean Trevelino | Mar 4, 2014 | Blog
Last week, Mayor Kasim Reed and Invest Atlanta led a delegation of Atlanta tech leaders and entrepreneurs to Silicon Valley. During the three-day trip through San Francisco and Palo Alto, Reed and Invest Atlanta’s technology leaders met with 12 venture capital firms...