Startup Riot, the biggest and most interesting tech event (in my mind) hits Atlanta for its third year. You might remember the first two Startup Riots which I blogged about: I presented at the Startup Riot 2008 and covered Startup Riot 2009. I’ll backtrack a bit first. Startup Riot 2010 is a startup pitch event and this year 50 startups in Atlanta, GA will take the stage for 3 minutes or less and talk about their startup company with just 4 slides. It’s an all day event and by far a pillar event for the growing Atlanta tech community. That being said, Robert Scoble came into town this week to attend Startup Riot. He works for RackSpace Building43 and RackSpace bought local startup Jungle Disk last year, so they decided to fly out from California to meet with the Jungle Disk team and network with local startups. Skribit Co-founder Calvin Yu and I went to the Jungle Disk offices yesterday for a video interview with Scoble that I’ll post up soon.
[click to continue…]
People: Sanjay Parekh
Tagged as:
Atlanta,
dot-com,
entrepreneurship,
finance,
Fox Theater,
Georgia Tech,
News,
private equity,
Startups,
Technology,
venture capital,
Wi-Fi
If you live in Atlanta, you’ll be happy to hear that there’s a new ISP in town. And I’m not talking about just any type of Internet connection. I’m talking about WiMAX (read my Thoughts on WiMAX post). It’s called CLEAR by Clearwire and its launch makes Atlanta the “Fastest Unwired City in the South”. That’s a pretty hefty claim that I’ll have to put to the test later. CLEAR isn’t the first WiMAX provider in the United States – Sprint launched WiMAX under their XOHM brand name in Baltimore last October, and other providers have been helping businesses with WiMAX coverage in major cities as well. But for Atlantans, [click to continue…]
Tagged as:
4G,
Atlanta,
CLEAR,
Clearwire,
Hardware,
Internet,
Mobile,
News,
Technology,
WiMAX
Startup Riot, a day-long networking and startup pitching event organized by Sanjay Parekh, was held at the Twelve Hotel today and much like the last one, was a huge success. Startup Riot is one of the glimmering examples of the growing startup, tech and entrepreneurship communities in Atlanta. In addition to the larger size of the event this year, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting and listening to this year’s keynote [click to continue…]
Tagged as:
Atlanta,
News,
Startup,
Technology
It’s finally happening. A big tech event I’ve actually heard about before is coming to Atlanta. It’s called Webmaster Jam Session and it is a forum for designers, developers and the rest of the lot to exchange knowledge and socialize. I usually don’t use my blog to spread the word about events like this but I’m rather excited to finally [click to continue…]
Tagged as:
Atlanta,
Conference,
News,
Web Dev
Those of you following my Twitter account will know that my house was robbed early in the morning on Memorial day. Nothing of mine was actually taken but the three guys that broke in assaulted my roommate and stole his MacBook among other things. Read his blog post for the full story. [click to continue…]
Tagged as:
Atlanta,
Crime,
Life,
Moving,
PaulStamatiou.com
