Tech Blogger Roundup From The Arkansas Entrepreneur And Tech Community

Jeff Amerine of Startup Junkie Consulting in Fayetteville has this interesting post on the travails and challenges for startup CEOs:

“Few opportunities rival the exhilaration and challenges that come with being a CEO in an early-stage venture. Startup founders choose this path for a variety of reasons. Some seek to solve major problems. Others view a startup as a faster means of achieving success as defined by wealth. Many just don’t quite fit into corporate culture and fashion themselves as mavericks. Over time, some serial entrepreneurs begin to contemplate their legacy. They may want to genuinely focus on changing the world, i.e. they hope to transition from success to significance. Other startup founders decide to launch their own company to ‘be their own boss’. I want to explore this last motivation a bit more.”

To read more of Amerine’s thoughts, click here.

Over at StartupDad.co, blogger, father of a successful teen entrepreneur, mentor and former tech executive David Moody is writing about the proverbial “800 lb. Gorilla.”

“Just remember . . . he didn’t survive this long, weigh 800 lbs., and be the strongest one in his market by accident. He will know about you earlier than you realize because he has resources that do nothing but protect his territory. He will allow you to feed from some of the food scraps in his territory, not because he doesn’t know you are doing it, but because it isn’t worth his time to stop you. If, however, you begin to move deeper into his territory and partake of his primary food sources, you will get his attention,” Moody writes.

Click here to learn more about the Gorilla in your market.

At Xcelerate Capital, the latest blog post from founder and managing partner Rod Ford converses about the national movement of entrepreneurship going regional.

The post, called “Rise of the Rest – The Momentum for Regional Entrepreneurship,” begins the story about how former AOL founder Steve Case has become the champion of local communities taking active control of regional job creation by support the birth of “new indigenous companies.”

Here’s a snippet:
“As I listened to Mr. Case’s notion that any intelligent and progressive community can indeed become the next Silicon Valley, it prompted me to reflect upon our progress in Arkansas as a ‘Rise of the Rest’ region.

“As I work daily in the Arkansas entrepreneurial ecosystem, I see tremendous progress around many of the programming and capital tenants required to sustain a perpetually robust startup world.”

To read the rest of Ford’s interesting essay and takeaway, click here.