Austin life sciences venture firm, Emergent Technologies, Inc. (ETI), announced the first biotech tenants of ETI’s life sciences laboratory space. Encompassing the entire first floor of the new, three-story ETI building in Austin, the state-of-the-art laboratory space is 7,212 square feet. Biotechnology company Beacon Sciences and its subsidiary, Reveal Sciences, a new personal care technology start-up, as well as a third portfolio company to be announced in summer 2008, have already moved into the newly [...]

Soon we will see what SolarWinds thinks their valuation in the marketplace will be. That will require an updating of the S-1 statement. Cruising through the current registration you can definitely find some interesting things. Do you think your overpaid? Underpaid? Here is what the executives at SolarWinds are making, in case you want to measure it against your compensation. This comes from the 2007 Executive Compensation table: Michael Bennett, President & CEO, $1,888,741 Kevin [...]

The war has begun. The first shots have been fired across the bow, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. It might even rival the intensity of policital mudslinging we will see this summer. What am I talking about? TechCrunch, the hugely popular technology blog published by Michael Arrington, and Jason Calacanis announced the dates for this year’s TechCrunch event yesterday. Last year was the first year of the event, and it [...]