[Editors Note: Our comments section has been very active, with people affected by this issue using our comments as a way to support each other. We've shut off the comments, as this isn't the purpose of our comments section. If somebody is going to setup a discussion group (like www.ning.com for example), please email the editor and we will update this blog post and point people to your support forum.] Austin-based SupportKids is laying off [...]
nGenera Corporation, maker of a unique platform of Collaborative Enterprise Management (CEM) solutions, today announced it has secured $10 million in a new Series C financing round. Participants in the initial close of the round include Foundation Capital and Oak Investment Partners. This additional funding enables the company to increase its product development and expand the sales of its CEM solutions. With a growing customer base and a portfolio of on demand applications, executive insight, [...]
If you are a Central Texas startup and want to know how the federal government provides you with research and development funding, the SBIR program may provide a partial funding solution. Through the years, some truly excellent innovations were started through this program Ever since President Harry Truman investigated major fraud in World War II, the government has seen the need for small business funding and research. Without the levels of management that other bigger [...]
At the Shop.org Online Marketing Workshop, Adlucent, the leader in retail Search Engine Marketing (SEM), and Bazaarvoice, the leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today announced a partnership aimed at helping retailers leverage the voice of the customer in their search marketing programs. The two companies will work together to integrate product reviews and pay-per-click search to better optimize keywords and ad copy. This will help retailers attract more qualified traffic to [...]
Yes, it was over a year ago that we wrote about SolarWinds filing their S/1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Back then the company was hoping to raise $250M through the offering. A year later the amount of money being raised for the company has been adjust slightly to between $85.5M and $103.5M depending upon where the IPO actually prices (or if it prices). Still, this is a major coup for SolarWinds, [...]
