![]() Instead-or perhaps, in addition to.?-I was now working on a long-term project for TechStars, co-captaining with one of the best networkers in the Atlanta tech scene (which she still is!). Methodical and consistent value creation and authenticity-that’s what had built prior relationships and what would build this one. That morning, I’d hoped that our scheduled zoom call would lead to another one consistent conversation at a time is my networking philosophy. “You have a massive network on Twitter and on LinkedIn-I told TechStars that could bring some incredible value.”Īn hour later at dinner, I had to take a mental step back and reflect on where the hell I was compared to the start of the day and how the hell I’d gotten there. Later on in the conversation, she mentioned her reasoning: I didn’t have to be asked twice-how could I pass up an opportunity like this? Especially one that seemed to come so out of the blue. The work was definitely a two-person job, though, and she mentioned she wanted to bring me in as a co-captain to work together if I was interested. Under the covers at the time, she was working with TechStars Atlanta to help launch their first Startup Week and lead the Tech/Fintech track. Aly, however, had a unique and totally unexpected proposition for me. In February of this year, just as I was back from Colorado and before the pandemic would turn the world on its head, Aly and I hopped on a zoom call I thought to talk more about the Atlanta tech scene. Then the year ended and we agreed to circle back in 2020. We did, meeting for coffee a couple weeks later-again, pre-Corona-discussing tech startups and whatnot. After the day was over, I mentioned we should keep the dialogue going. We struck up a brief conversation first in the comments, and then via DM, discussing the things we enjoyed about the event from the techie angle. Being a film-oriented event, most people were engaging with Instagram or Tik Tok as opposed to Twitter. In fact, the biggest surprise at the time was that some of my tweets eventually led to winning a Roku by accident.īut one of the other happy side-effects of my tweets was running into Aly Merritt of SalesLoft in the same hashtag conversations of the event. It was before Covid turned our lives upside-down-hard to remember, I know-and at the time, I couldn’t have seen where it would lead. ![]() In October of last year, I found myself at OTT Fest here in Atlanta, tweeting about some of the great presentations and speakers I was seeing that week. Sorry the TL DR was still long anyway lol. I included the other team captains as well, though to detail their respective speakers would certainly take a further article.įor me, though, I tried to give a full rundown and sampling of what the Tech/Fintech track put together for that week, including promo graphics and links to (most of!) the videos-the last few should be uploaded soon! ![]() I’ve made it as short as possible without skimping on the details of the people who made this all doable. This is the somewhat brief story of how a few tweets led to an incredible summer of helping to build and launch TechStars’ Atlanta inaugural Startup Week. My chat with LinkedIn influencers Dale Dupree and Judi Fox
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