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wayt

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About wayt

cashed-out s/w entrepreneur (N2 Broadband founder; LastMinuteGolfer.com investor) and former tech lawyer and satcom engineer; partner in Shotput Ventures, a "YCombinator for the Southeast." Wish I could code, but I can't.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #685300

    I'm old enough to remember white flight. To make an analogy with MySpace migration to Facebook is absurd.

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    Comment #533425

    Congrats. GaTech is a great school with really smart students. But what's most important is what YOU do at GT. I hope you will take full advantage of this great opportunity, enjoy …

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    Comment #532748

    I'm one of the Shotput Ventures partners, and I'm looking forward to a great first "class" in Atlanta. We've got an interesting group of partners, with recent business hits in soft…

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    Comment #73182

    I am a former patent lawyer (EE), and more recently an entrepreneur who has founded and sold s/w businesses for large sums. If I were you I would forget about patenting your idea a…

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    Comment #66554

    All other things being equal, is Silicon Valley the best place in the galaxy to start and build a software or web services business? Hell yes. Will lots of startups that are starte…

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    Comment #50004

    I'm a former lawyer (corporate, technology, IP) who started a s/w company in 2000 and sold it for $120M in 2005. So I've been there and done that. I help (for free) Atlanta-based h…