37% of Shotput Ventures startups stayed in Atlanta

Re:37% of Shotput Ventures startups stayed in Atlanta by sanjayparekh on Thursday September 03, 2009 @12:00AM (#801745)

I'm one of the Shotput partners. I'm not sure if the implication here is that we specifically didn't intro our companies to investors from outside of the southeast. If so, that is entirely not the case. Myself and other partners continue to work with our companies to make valuable introductions for them - both in terms of clients as well as investors.

But I'll assume you were speaking in general terms in which case, I think all of the partners at Shotput would wholeheartedly agree.

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Re:37% of Shotput Ventures startups stayed in Atlanta by pg on Thursday September 03, 2009 @12:16AM (#801762)

I didn't mean that you didn't introduce your companies to investors from other places, just that without the mechanism of a demo day you couldn't introduce them, in person, to hundreds of such investors.

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Re:37% of Shotput Ventures startups stayed in Atlanta by sanjayparekh on Thursday September 03, 2009 @08:21AM (#802277)

Totally get you and you're totally right. I wish things like demo day existed when I was funding my company. Would have saved me from talking to 200+ investors over a 10 month time span.

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