Disqus - Latest Comments for ardell

Re: Freelance Fire[BETA]– A Survival Guide to Conquer Your Fears, Get More Clients, & Increase Your Rates

Jason Ardell — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 12:30:41 -0000

I'd love to read as well if you're still looking for feedback!

Re: Developers: Do these things before the weekend

Jason Ardell — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:45:48 -0000

Yep, you're a day ahead of me. Sending out an email tomorrow to all attendees with schedule, what to bring, etc. Routers needed!

Re: All Your Intellectual Property Are Belong To Someone

Jason Ardell — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:06:04 -0000

Agreed re: getting rich based on a weekend of work.

What we're trying to avoid is teams spending hours (or even an hour) working on equity agreements and ownership instead of launching an awesome project. If we could instead provide a framework that, while it may not work for everyone, is a good approximation for most teams then teams can focus on building a product.

The other (interesting) side of the argument is that it's valuable practice for entrepreneurs to learn how equity/ownership agreements are negotiated, but as far as I can tell that's a very small and relatively unimportant part of entrepreneurism. Building and selling a product are far more important.

Re: All Your Intellectual Property Are Belong To Someone

Jason Ardell — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:59:04 -0000

Thx for the input! You'll only be able to pitch 1 idea on Friday night, so think hard about which is the idea that you'd most like to work on, and which has the best chance of being voted in. We had 70+ pitches last year and only 12 teams formed.

Be prepared that your idea might not get picked, and be ready to work with other people on their idea in that event. You'll learn from the weekend either way, but you'll have a more positive experience if you come in open-minded.

Re: Startup Drinks this Tuesday

Jason Ardell — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:58:48 -0000

@stephen Awesome!

Talked to several people on twitter yesterday and it sounds like it'll be a great crowd at Startup Drinks tonight. Looking forward to seeing everybody!

Re: Putting Our Vision Where Your Mouth Is

Jason Ardell — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:36:03 -0000

Thanks for your suggestions, Tom! I loved Kook Korners while I was at Tech, and I'd personally prefer that to Jimmy Johns or Firehouse. Let me see what I can get our food team to put together.

Re: Putting Our Vision Where Your Mouth Is

Jason Ardell — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:13:55 -0000

Thanks, Sam. Low-carb snacks are particularly tough, any suggestions?

I agree about not worrying about pleasing everyone. We're wide open on the topic and figured we might as well start with some customer feedback. :-) It'll probably come down to who can do a 100+ person order, and whether they're able to cut Start Atlanta a good deal (it's expensive to feed so many people!) But we'll certainly start with places people like best.

Re: Putting Our Vision Where Your Mouth Is

Jason Ardell — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:59:33 -0000

If folks want cold pizza, we'll do cold pizza. :-)

Haven't heard of Carolyn's/Crazy Cuban, will check those out. What do you like to eat at Carolyn's. I assume cuban sandwiches at Crazy Cuban?

Re: What’s the Ideal Team Size?

Jason Ardell — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:58:46 -0000

Interesting. What would the mentors/advisors do?

We brainstormed the idea of having some "pools" that you could go to in order to get help with different aspects (e.g. design, infrastructure, marketing/PR, law, investment). I think we can provide those resources but may not need to have those folks hanging around all weekend, with the exception of design. I also think that people get more attached to the idea they're working on when they're focused on just one idea.

Re: What’s the Ideal Team Size?

Jason Ardell — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:47:50 -0000

More fuel for the fire, Paul Graham says "groups of 8 work well; by 20 they're getting hard to manage; and a group of 50 is really unwieldy."

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss
http://www.paulgraham.com/b...

Re: What’s the Ideal Team Size?

Jason Ardell — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:44:41 -0000

What do you think about having 3-4 larger teams? No eggs-in-one-basket problem, but still you have all the resources of a big team.

I remember GivingTi.me was 15+ people, and my team that same year was 6--they formed naturally into larger/smaller sizes depending on interest.

Re: Startup Reactor: Oh No — No IPOs (Week Four)

Jason Ardell — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:50:24 -0000

I hear the Atlanta Technology Development Center (ATDC) which is affiliated with Georgia Tech does something similar to what you're talking about. Small (for a VC) but large (for an incubator) investments, and they provide office space and other infrastructure support.