Articles

2024

September 29th, 2024 - Atlanta's Downtown Awakening

July 3rd, 2024 - Connect on the Sweet Spot of the Bat

April 27th, 2024 - How South Downtown Inspired Lincoln's Legacy

February 12th, 2024 - The Soda Fountain Castle in South Downtown

2023

December 17th, 2023 - Authentic Work

September 5th, 2023 - Atlanta's Framed Skyline

August 10th, 2023 - Earned Insights

August 6th, 2023 - "The Lights are On"

July 14th, 2023 - Running on an Escalator versus Quicksand

July 9th, 2023 - Book Review: The Book of Charlie

July 2nd, 2023 - Ways to Start

May 30th, 2023 - Study the Greats: Lyndon Johnson's Obsession

May 18th, 2023 - Obvious Insights, Not Easily Seen

February 26th, 2023 - And The Walls Came Tumbling Down - Book Review

January 11th, 2023 - Leadership and Kissinger

2022

December 11th, 2022 - Time for Meetup 2.0

September 6th, 2022 - Playing Between the Lines

June 20th, 2022 - Found Time for Podcasts with AirPods

June 3rd, 2022 - New Podcast Show: Five & Thrive

May 28th, 2022 - Jobs of Tomorrow: Digital Golf Course Designer

May 23rd, 2022 - Crime in Atlanta and YSL Gang's Influence

May 8th, 2022 - The Summit of Shakespeare

April 28th, 2022 - What Elon Does

April 24th, 2022 – Tightening Sockets

April 11th, 2022 – The Gathering Spot with Mayor Dickens and Tope Awotona

February 2nd, 2022 – Wordle and the Future of Publishing

January 23rd, 2022 – Stumbling into a Glorious Writing Community and the Evolution of Online Education

January 18th, 2022 – Align the Dots By Generating Neurons

2021

December 27th, 2021 – The Science of Persuasion

December 16th, 2021 – Greenzie’s First Three Years

December 12th, 2021 – Kemp versus Perdue

December 6th, 2021 – Unlocking the Safe Towards Product-Market Fit

November 28th, 2021 – The Atlanta Mayoral Race – Differentiate Through Storytelling…and Other Musings

September 19th, 2021 – Time Your Rocket Ship

July 30th, 2021 – Hottest Early Stage Tech Companies in Atlanta

July 16th, 2021 – Where Do You Read Your Local Media on Atlanta?

July 4th, 2021 – Ambition, Failure, and Country: Abraham Lincoln

June 23rd, 2021 – Breakfast in the Governor’s Mansion

May 3rd, 2021 – Speaking in Metaphors

January 6th 2021 – Finding Authentic Demand

2020

December 30th, 2020 – An Evening with Lincoln

November 16th, 2020 – Michael Williamson: Building Businesses in Public, in Private, and Intown.

October 21st, 2020 – Pattern of Stereotypes

October 18th, 2020 – A Vision’s Continuum of Belief

October 8th, 2020 – The Fish that Ate the Whale: Insights

September 30th, 2020 – The Date After My Dash

September 27th, 2020 – Reading Without Order

August 25th, 2020 – Compounding Decisions

August 4th, 2020 – The Game Show of the Future

July 22nd, 2020 – Atlanta’s Most Ambitious

May 2nd, 2020 – Smokey Robinson on Staying Focused on What Matters

April, 27th, 2020 – Brick by Brick

February 27th, 2020 – Curation as a Service

January 27th, 2020 – Insights Per Minute

January 16th, 2020 – Belief in Your Story

January 14th, 2020 – Build Petri Dishes for Creativity

2019

December 31st, 2019 – Grapes of Wrath – Review and Reflection

December 14th, 2019 – Faith, Coffee, and the Human Spirit

November 27th, 2019 – Big Dave’s

October 30th, 2019 – Compounding Content

October 28th, 2019 – My New, Old Writing Tool

September 29th, 2019 – The Power of One Article

September 2nd, 2019 – In the Flow

August 31st, 2019 – The Athletic and Sports Journalism

July 29th, 2019 – Rhetoric from Churchill

July 18th, 2019 – 6 Months of Homework for Life

July 9th, 2019 – SaaS Companies Going Direct to Consumer Via Media

June 26th, 2019 Charles Brian Quinn (CBQ), Greenzie’s First 10 Months Through the Lens of CEO, CBQ

June 5th, 2019 – When to Peak

May 24th, 2019 – College Is Not a Cheap Place to Find Your Career Passion, Especially in Sales

May 20th, 2019 – Robert F. Smith’s Donation to Morehouse’s Graduating Class of 2019

May 8th, 2019 – The Millennial Whisperer: Book Review

April 22nd, 2019 – Start Small With Consulting, Then Scale With Product

March 27th, 2019 – Inspirational.com: Digital Well Being and Anti-Screen Addiction

March 25th, 2019 – Greenzie’s Demo Day Details

March 5th, 2019 – Eric Spett: Operating Through Depths and Triumphs To Reach His Terminus

January 31st, 2019 – A Podcast about Storytelling and Micro-Transformations

January 29th, 2019 – David Cummings – Iterating on Business Ideas from the Beginning and Beyond

January 21st, 2019 – Where I Spend My Volunteer Time: Burning Letter

January, 10th, 2019 – Now Is a Great Time to Start a Company

January 2nd, 2019 – The Power of Voice

2018

December 14th, 2018 – Kyle Porter – Do more. Be More. Learn More

December 12th, 2018 – Winston Churchill’s 5 Elements to Great Oratory

November 25th, 2018 – “I am building a great cathedral.”

November 15th, 2018 – The Georgia Governor’s Race: Media, Perception, Communication, and Counting Votes

November 8th, 2018 – 3 SaaS Side Hustles Presenting Next Week

October 28th, 2018 – Predicting the Future

October 22nd, 2018 – This Book Helped Shaped Frederick Douglass’ Storytelling

October 16th, 2018 – Bobby Jones’ Legacy Spawns Local Change

October 14th, 2018 – Write the Wikipedia Entry You One Day Want

October 1st, 2018 – Go-To-Market Lesson Lab – It Takes a Village

September 19th, 2018 – Greg Benoit – Solving Physician’s Pain with Atlanta’s Tech Rise 

August 31st, 2018 – 3 Presenting Side Hustles Next Week

August 15th, 2018 – Introducing the Simply SaaS Side Hustle Meetup

July 2nd, 2018 – Why Apply to Atlanta Ventures SaaS Startup Studio

June 26th, 2018 – Stefan Koenig Comes to Simply SaaS

June 17th, 2018 – Curate and Approve

June 12th, 2018 – Belief In You

May 31st, 2018 – Impatiently Scheduling our Calendars, One Meeting at a Time

May 28th, 2018 – Running In the North Georgia Mountains

May 24th, 2018 – Three Types of SaaS Services

May 21st, 2018 – How to Get the Most Out of Thursday’s Simply SaaS Forum

May 20th, 2018 – Tidbits

April 6th, 2018 – Sean McCormick – A True Entrepreneur With Every Single Op

February 28th, 2018 – Craig Hyde – Engineering a Business with Brute, Force Rigor

January 26th, 2018 – Map the Clothes

January 18th, 2018 – Fuqua on Entrepreneurship and “Getting Hooked”

January 3rd, 2018 – Find a Shared Truth

2017

November 22nd, 2017 – My Experience with No Car in Atlanta For Nearly a Year

November 14th, 2017 – The Surprise Fries Bliss

March 31st, 2017 – Why Atlanta’s Collapse(s) Are Good For Us

2016

May 25th, 2016 – The Market

March 27th, 2016 – Raising Standards On Today’s Rhetoric

January 30th, 2016 – How I Would Get Donald Trump Out of the Presidential Election

2015

December 26th, 2015 – My Reading Game Plan for 2016

November 10th, 2015 – A Shakespearean Ripening of a New Market: People’s Feedback

August 1st, 2015 – We Can Talk But Customers Talk, So Talk About Them

July 26th, 2015 – Real Customers Breed Real Businesses

July 23rd, 2015 – Go to Market with Absolute Truths

May 25th, 2015 – Persuasion and Logic from Abraham Lincoln

May 10th, 2015 – Prod Decisions

February 18th, 2015 – Saas Gratification

January 28th, 2015 – Atlanta Band Wagon Fan

January 13th, 2015 – App With an Opinion

January 11th, 2015 – How to Never Lose

January 8th, 2015 – Walking to Dinner

January 4th, 2015 – Quality Leadership

January 1st, 2015 – 6 Predictions for Atlanta’s Technology Community in 2015

2014

November 1st, 2014 – What Will Get Millenials OTP?

October 18th, 2014 – Product Reigns Supreme

September 25th, 2014 – Decisions. (Book Review of Crossing the Chasm).

August 26th, 2014 – Think In Terms of the Invisible and Silent

August 3rd, 2014 – Atlanta Startup Village: The Largest Monthly Gathering of Atlanta Entrepreneurs in the Southeast

June 12th, 2014 – Sarah Serenades The “South” Land

June 9th, 2014 – Rivalry Takes On Southland

April 6th, 2014 – Beltline & Co, Branding, and Atlanta’s Story

March 13th, 2014 – Consuming the Enterprise

February 21st, 2014 – Progress: A Tie that Binds

January 20th, 2014 – Reverend King Jr.’s Finest Moment in Atlanta

January 5th, 2014 – 6 Predictions for Atlanta’s Technology Community in 2014

2013

December 13th, 2013 – An Afternoon Coke with Mayor Kasim Reed

November 30th, 2013 – We Run This State…But We Can’t Even Run I-20

November 25th, 2013 – Gone With the Hype

September 24th, 2013 – My Biggest Mistake in Building Rivalry for the Past 10 Months

September 4th, 2013 – Public Policy Rips Through Georgia Tech

September 3rd, 2013 – The Perfect Day of Work-Life Balance

August 25th, 2013: Prediction: In-town, Atlanta Private School Within 5 Years

August 3rd, 2013: Two Videos of Atlanta Entrepreneurs Worth Watching

July 7th, 2013: Selling Technology Will Always Be the Future

June 24th, 2013: Teddy Roosevelt, Leadership, and Principles

May 5th, 2013: Two Great Stories from 60 Minutes

March 31st, 2013: The Convergence of SEO, Social, and How Product Development Fits in the Mix

February 21st, 2013: Technology Solves People Problems

February 10th, 2013: Value

January 26th, 2013: Picking Early Customers for Your MVP

January 3rd, 2013: Fast Times at Atlanta Tech Village

December 15th, 2012: Starting a Company is No Reason to Celebrate