Paste, Regator and the start-ups
I first met Scott Lockhart of Regator at the company’s fall launch party at Paste Magazine’s offices in Decatur, where the combination of optimism, fun and just a wee bit of anxiety that pervades Atlanta’s tech start-up community could be tasted along with the cheese and crackers.
Last night, Lockhart — along with his two business partners (his wife and his brother-in-law) and the social-networking/start-up zine Mashable — hosted a larger event at the Trolley Barn in Inman Park, in advance of Regator’s redesign roll-out next month.
One of the first guys I saw as I came in was Tim Dorr, who personifies the tech community’s vibrancy and quiet enthusiasm. Dorr is founder of A Small Orange, a very service-oriented web-hosting company (I use them), and the partner in FeedScrub (a start-up that, well, scrubs feeds), as well as a web development company and about half-a-dozen other startups. The guy runs his company’s conservatively but always seems to have a new gadget, a new idea and plenty of time to share his knowledge with tech neophytes. Read more
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