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Skribit Exits Beta, Gets TechCrunched

December 17, 2009 · 40 comments

I always found it a bit ironic that I had less time to blog here as I started working full-time on a blogging startup. Well, my time spent on Skribit is starting to pay off. Today, Skribit finally goes out of what we’ve internally been considering our public beta — so it’s our official launch day. We have been laying low on the marketing and press front, except for my ramblings here, and now we are ready to tell more people about it. That being said, TechCrunch just wrote about Skribit (thanks Daniel!). This is the first step on our so-called “Customer Acquisition Plan”, as MBA as that sounds.

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Launch Something and Meet People at Atlanta Startup Weekend 3

November 9, 2009 · 11 comments

The third year of Atlanta Startup Weekend is less than a week away and begins Friday November 13th and goes through Sunday night. I am definitely biased as I have attended the last two Startup Weekends, but I strongly suggest attending if you are within the Atlanta area. For those unfamiliar with the concept, Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event where people with a variety of backgrounds — from legal to backend development — gather, pitch ideas and then take the selected ideas from whiteboard to working web application or whatever it may be. [click to continue…]

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Recap: WordCamp Birmingham 2009 + Skribit Updates

September 30, 2009 · 16 comments

This past weekend I drove over to Birmingham, Alabama, for WordCamp Birmingham 2009. This was their second WordCamp and brought out some 180 people — three times larger than their first one last year. This was not my first WordCamp; I attended WordCamp San Francisco 2007. In a nutshell, WordCamp is a weekend event where WordPress users, enthusiasts, developers and other members of the community gather for a series of talks, sessions, Q&A’s and networking. If you have a WordPress question, you’ll find your answer at WordCamp. [click to continue…]

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Review: Supercool School (Online Learning Startup)

September 22, 2009 · 22 comments

Two years ago during a trip to San Francisco I met up with entrepreneur Steli Efti. He had previously contacted me and told me a bit about his story. He bought a one-way ticket from Greece to San Francisco with the intent of creating a startup called Supercool School. Steli wanted to change the way people learn. I remember talking with him then and noting how remarkably passionate he was about the idea of giving anyone the ability to teach or attend an online class about any subject. I thought to myself about how this type of passion is what startups are really about. [click to continue…]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 30 (Coding, Coding, Coding)

August 4, 2009 · 43 comments

It has been quite a while since my last update on what I actually do for a living – work on the startup Skribit. Okay, well to be technically correct this blog is more of a living as it pays more (thanks for reading!), but I work about 60 hours a week on Skribit, more or less. Some weeks we’re gearing up for a deploy (like this past week) and I work a lot more to clean things up in time. For those wondering what Skribit is or what I’ve talked about thus far as I attempt to chronicle [click to continue…]

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First Impressions: BackType Connect WP Plugin

April 9, 2009 · 40 comments

BackType is aiming to solve a long-standing problem that reared its face when blogs met new forms social media and news sites. The problem I’m referring to is comment separation anxiety. Comments have feelings too. They don’t like being separated. BackType’s Connect WordPress plugin uses their Connect API to suck in all comments related to your blog post, whether they’re on Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News and more. The end result is one big conversation on your blog post. [click to continue…]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 12 (Scaling)

April 1, 2009 · 34 comments

My last startup update discussed Skribit’s recent redesign and entrance into the GRA/TAG Business Launch competition. Since then a few things have been keeping us busy. For one, we have had more and more server issues. While Skribit doesn’t use much in the way of CPU [click to continue…]

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Review: MailChimp (Email Marketing)

March 25, 2009 · 76 comments

Before I left for SXSWi I created and sent Skribit’s first email campaign to a subset of our users. There are quite a few email marketing solutions on the market but I went with MailChimp. I didn’t really research any competitors or look elsewhere; MailChimp has a cool logo (great logos go a long way for marketing) and they’re also a local Atlanta startup, so I figured why not. [click to continue…]

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Recap: 2009 Georgia Technology Summit

March 4, 2009

In January I mentioned that I was invited to come aboard the selection committee for the Technology Association of Georgia’s Top 40 innovative companies competition. As part of the 15-person committee, gave my perspective and thoughts on the applicants as well as provided my evaluation of how each company’s technology was innovative. The month and [...]

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Shotput Ventures to Grow Tech Startups in Atlanta

March 4, 2009

Shotput Ventures is a new technology startup accelerator fund (some might call it an incubator but technically it’s not since, among other things, the companies don’t work out of the investor’s space) sprouting in Atlanta. Backed by an impressive team of serial entrepreneurs, I think SPV is poised to grow promising tech startups in Atlanta. [...]

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Full-time Startup: Skribit Week 8 (Redesign)

March 2, 2009

The last few weeks of working on Skribit have been proved to be rewarding. It’s finally gotten to a point where it’s noticeable that we are making some progress with product development. This past Friday I pushed live the new redesign of Skribit.com. A few weeks ago we hired graphic designer Justin Ruckman to pump [...]

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Startup Riot 2009 Recap

February 19, 2009

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 [...]

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Startup Goals for 2009

January 23, 2009

Not too long ago Calvin pushed out the suggestion for this post to the Atlanta Startups group on Skribit. I figured I would tackle this post now that it is still early in the year. Unfortunately, you probably already know what I’m going to say. I think every startup’s primary goal for 2009 is [...]

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Full-Time Startup: Skribit Week 2

January 17, 2009

As a follow-up to my post detailing my first week of full-time work at Skribit, this post will talk about my adaptation to the working from home lifestyle as well as how work is going. I have slowly gotten into a work routine and generally start work around 8 or 9am until around 5pm, when [...]

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My First Day Working Full-Time for Skribit

January 7, 2009

I’m sorry to disappoint – this post has nothing to do with the Apple keynote at Macworld 2009, iTunes going completely DRM-free, the new 17-inch MacBook Pro with an 8 hour battery life, or a myriad of CES coverage. Instead, this post is about my first day of full-time work at Skribit, a startup helping [...]

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