Voice Is the New Keyboard
Continuing with last week’s post on doing a voice dump into AI tools, another theme I’m bullish on is using voice in general. One of the most popular products changing the way people work through v…
Author: David Cummings
David Cummings is a Partner and co-founder of Atlanta Ventures and co-founder of Pardot (acquired by Salesforce). He has invested in and supported hundreds of early-stage startups in the Southeast and writes regularly about entrepreneurship, SaaS, and the Atlanta tech ecosystem.
Stop Writing Prompts. Start Talking.
A few months ago, I read a post arguing that one of the best ways to interact with AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok is to do a complete stream-of-consciousness dump of everything in your …
Agency and Soft Skills in the AI Era
With each passing day, it becomes clearer that AI is making the intelligence side of startups and entrepreneurship more accessible, distributed, and abundant. As that happens, the real differentiat…
Using AI to Find Your Best Prospects
Last week, I was talking with an entrepreneur who shared how he was using AI to do a much better job of identifying which prospects he should pursue. It is easy to get a list of names and companies…
Fall in Love With the Problem, Not the Solution
There’s a phrase in startup land that really resonates with me: stay close to the problem. As an entrepreneur, it’s easy to become enamored with ideas, visions, and what could be. While all of thos…
The Personal AI Brain
Recently, I was talking to an entrepreneur who shared that one of his side projects was building a personal AI brain. The goal was to process information across every area he cared about, automate …
Why Great Founders Keep Selling
One of the recurring debates I have encountered is around the role of founder-led sales. Founder-led sales is the idea that, in the early days and even the early years of a startup, the founder sho…
The Real Return Standard for Most Venture Investors
If you read the startup blogs and listen to the most popular startup podcasts, it is easy to think that the only way to raise money in the current climate is with an idea that can become worth tens…
Right to win Competitive Positioning
I’ve always enjoyed learning about different business best practices, strategy documents, and ways of thinking through a company game plan. One example I’ve seen more frequently over the last year …
Combine a National VC with a Regional VC
Last month, I was talking to an entrepreneur about his upcoming fundraising round, and he shared an approach that I hadn’t heard before. His ultimate goal for the funding round was to secure …