The writing was on the wall for SolarWinds, and now the writing is also on the S/1 statement on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Lehman Brothers are handling the offering. Not a bad group of underwriters for an Austin IPO. Looking at the numbers, the company  hopes to raise $250m throught he offering. The company made profits of $13.6M on revenue of $61.7M in 2007. Now let’s see [...]

The instructional video space is hot right now, and Austin is homebase for two of the emerging companies in the space; ExpertVillage and MindBites. In mid-2007 Demand Media (which recently acquired Pluck) bought ExpertVillage. In January, 5Min landed 5Million for their website. Last month former Google Video/YouTubers launched HowCast with an $8M investment. Today, MindBites is launching and announcing $1M in a Series A funding from True Ventures. True isn’t exactly a household name for [...]