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Welcome to SL #39! In the spring of each year the StartupLounge crew packs up our studio and heads down to midtown Atlanta and records live on location at the ATDC’s yearly Entrepreneur Showcase event. This is always a wonderful event which features a new wave of graduating technology companies, and a new class of up and comers. This is our third year covering the event, and the energy this year was through the roof. Recorded live on-location at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Atlanta, May 29th, 2009.
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We unfortunately have to announce that we are moving the date of the upcoming CapitalLounge event to June 10, 2009.  The time and location will remain the same.

We have made this decision so as to avoid a conflict with the BIO conference that week, which is the largest biotechnology investing and innovation trade conference in the United States and is being held in Atlanta this year.  We are concerned that too many entrepreneurs with biotechnology businesses (medical devices, drug discovery) and investors will be forced to make an unfortunate choice between CapitalLounge and missing part of the BIO conference.  Therefore, while we are confident in our ability to hold a well-attended and energetic event, we don’t want to put our bio/medical technology community members in a bad position.

In the interest of encouraging the fullest participation possible in CapitalLounge, we have made the decision to move the event to June 10th.  The status of your invitations to the event is unchanged.  If you have received an invitation, it is still valid. If you have not yet received a response from us regarding your application, there is no need to re-apply – just stay tuned as we’re still evaluating the flood of applications for the event.  If you received an acceptance of your application to attend, but can no longer make the event, please drop a quick reply to this email so we can remove you from the list and make room for someone else.

We will send reminders as over the next few weeks.  We apologize for any convenience the change might cause, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on June 10th.

Thanks for your patience!

 

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Welcome to SL #38! In our first broadcast from our new recording home in the plush new offices of HA&W (a staunch sponsor and advocate of our efforts here at StartupLounge), we sat down and a fantastic chat with John Glushik of Intersouth Partners.  In addition to the staple series of questions we ask of every investor that appears on the show, we also had a very interesting discussion comparing the similarities and differences of the startup scenes in North Carolina and Georgia.  We hit a number of other topics as well, including Intersouth’s investment in Atlanta-based Purewire, and some of the ramifications of cloud-computing and SaaS models.

The bus is back, and man is the driver upset.  Scott brings the hammer down on another misguided service provider who recently took advantage of a local entrepreneur. Another great selection of listener emails and a dash of StartupLounge humor to top it all off. Enjoy!

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Unfortunately, we just received word that our normal location for CapitalLounge (The Pavillion of Dunwoody) has had to close their doors due to a disagreement with their landlord.  So, for our upcoming event on Wednesday, Februrary 25th, we have had to change the venue.

If you’ve already applied and been accepted to attend, you should receive an email tonight with directions to the new location.   If for some reason you do not receive an email tonight, check your spam folder (doh!), or go to the StartupLounge.com web site and pull up the event details page – if you’re logged in, you’ll see the information on the new location there.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and look forward to seeing everyone on the 25th!

 

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Welcome to SL #37! There has been quite a bit of discussion over the past year or so about the possibilities of a Y-Combinator type venture fund here in the Southeast. After a few failed efforts (notably Boostphase), we finally have one off the ground here in Atlanta.  David Cummings and Sanjay Parekh, two of the founders of Shotput Ventures join us for a chat about this new venture model, the Atlanta early-stage scene, and other things that melt in the sun.

Mike brings the heat and rolls the bus over a group of entrepreneurs that just can’t seem to understand the value of someone else’s time. Another great selection of listener emails and a dash of StartupLounge humor to top it all off. Enjoy!

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