A "Technology laggard," an "ole boys network" and, worst of all, "risk averse." Jeff Haynie hurled these insults and then some at Atlanta on his blog in 2008.
The post was titled "What's wrong with the Atlanta startup ecosystem and how to fix it." Founder and CEO of Appcelerator, Haynie asked his audience (the Atlanta tech community) to take his comments as a "constructive exit interview." The "exit" being his decision to move his mobile platform development company from Atlanta to Silicon Valley. To keep talent like him there, Atlanta would have to stop playing it safe, fail faster, recruit talent early on, and animate the community to reinvest in the system even after a successful exit. Only then could the city produce something that even remotely resembles a healthy startup ecosystem, an environment that holistically fosters innovations like Haynie's.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Stephanie Hodges: Atlanta -- Still Not Failing Fast Enough?
