Lance Weatherby
About: I am a Venture Catalyst with the ATDC @ Geogia Tech. I work primarily with new media and Internet application focused companies. I assist any company regardless of industry with business development and marketing matters.
I founded The Enfuse Group, a strategic consulting firm focused on emerging high technology companies. I still do independent consulting.
I am doing all of this as I try to figure out what to do longer-term. Something to sink my teeth into and get passionate about. I want to run an Internet consumer technology company. I need a "mad scientist" to join me in my quest. I have been told that I am in an ideal "sentry position."
I spent a short period of time with CipherTrust.
Before that I was an EVP at EarthLink. I started and ran the mobile wireless business group.
I made my way to EarthLink via MindSpring where I ran business development, marketing, product management, and product development. I started at MindSpring pretty early on, when the company was still in the ATDC.
I worked at Mobil for about five years before I entered the world of technology.
I left the Bluegrass state to get my MBA from Indiana University.
I met Abby, my wife, there. We have two great kids now.
I grew up in Louisville. Three good things came out of that. I can sing the words to "My Old Kentucky Home", can make a mean mint julep without a recipe, and hunt if I get the notion to do so.
Blog Posts
Angels in Atlanta
--The good folks over at StartupLounge recently had Sig Mosley and Charlie Paparelli, two of the cornerstones of Atlanta angel investing on the show....
Vote for SoloHealth
--ATDC member company SoloHealth could use your assistance. They are the semi-finalists in the Forbes Boost Your Business contest. Winner takes home ...
YC Demo Day
--Nice vid showing a few clips of presenting at Y Combinator's Demo Day in Boston. This came from Scott Kirsner who has a nice write up of the day vi...
Quote of the Week
--"Do or do not, there is no try." Yoda In The Empire Strikes Back to Luke Skywalker on the planet Dagobah when he tries to extract his submerged X-w...
A New Hope
--Last week I delved a bit into the concept of business clusters and made a promise to address the subject of how a stronger consumer technology clus...
Moving Forward
--All the chatter that has been going on online sure has the early stage entrepreneurial group buzzing. About 40 or so showed up for Open Coffee yest...
The Bus Stops Here
--A little bus stop party right in front of our house on the second day of school. It's going to be a fun year!
Can You Do It?
--That according to Charlie Paparelli of Paparelli Ventures is the question going through an angel investor's mind during the first one on one meetin...
Observations on Observations
--My friend Jeff Haynie wrote a nice missive on why he moved to the Valley entitled "What's wrong with the Atlanta startup ecosystem and how to fix i...
Quote of the Week
--"Be so good they can't ignore you." Steve Martin From his book Born Standing Up.
Double Digits
--Kate turned 10 yesterday. Like all birthdays ending in a zero this was a big one. Highlight of the day was a little trip to Lenox Mall for an ear p...
Business Clusters
--Last week I posted an article highlighting consumer technology startups in Atlanta with a promise to explain why not many of them make it big. Here...
Purewire Progresses
--Big day for Purewire. Today they announced $2 million in funding, Tom Noonan joined their Board of Directors, and the general availability of the P...
Who Wants Seed Money?
--The comment stream generated by the word "discuss" in my quote of the week Friday is simply amazing. The quotes are not that important. Read the co...


