Is it a sign of the improving economy? There’s some great tech tidbits today, plus news outlets are starting to report on increasing consumer confidence, better jobs numbers, and higher quarter-over-quarter venture capital investment. Sounds like a good reason to celebrate with a happy hour! The American Statesman has a great piece on Mike Maples, Jr. who is probably the VC with the highest deal flow in the world today. Austin continues to be do [...]
Invodo, the de facto hub for product videos, recently closed $6 million in Series B funding from Sevin Rosen and S3 Ventures. The company raised a $1.5M Series A back in February of 2008. With the largest product video library in the world, Invodo has established itself as a leader in the ecommerce video space. The company has expanded its video content library to over 20,000 product videos from more than 1,900 manufacturers and now [...]
One of the challenges of being a rapidly growing company, is trying to keep your staff all under one roof. You need to bite off a bigger chunk of office space than you need right now, but how much more? If your growth rate accelerates, then the space that was supposed to last for a year, now has employees officing in the hallway after six months. It’s a great problem to have, but it’s still [...]
BreakingPoint today announced that it has been selected to the 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 List. The AlwaysOn Global 250 Award is given to private, emerging technology companies creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets. BreakingPoint was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction. BreakingPoint CEO Des Wilson: “With a series of game-changing innovations, award-winning products, a rapidly growing customer base and consistently strong [...]
Mumboe, an Austin-based company designed to give businesses a simple, affordable way to track and manage their agreements with customers, partners and employees, has announced a partnership aimed at helping companies reduce contract costs and improve business accountability General Counsel Solutions, a leading provider of corporate legal services. We’ve previously covered Mumboe here and here. With the new deal, GCS’s corporate legal services with be paired Mumboe’s on-demand software application, providing customers with a complete [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Todd Hansen, one of the founders of Better Than The Van. Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Better Than The Van connects bands with free places to stay across the US, Canada and Europe. By hosting bands you support live music in your community and directly connect with the artists. Bands can save money, meet other bands and make valuable local contacts that can evolve into new or [...]
PetsMD.com co-founder Tina Cannon spoke with us at Capital Factory the other day. We’ve got the video to prove it. In this video, Tina talks about the iPhone app that PetsMD has coming very soon now, as well as existing features like the interactive symptom checker, and finding a vet. Do you like short videos featuring emerging Austin tech companies? Let us know in the comments.
ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Marketing and Management topics. At ProductCamp everyone participates: by presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, or volunteering. ProductCamp is a great opportunity for you to learn from, teach to, and network with professionals involved in the Product Management, Marketing, and Development process from the Austin area! The first ProductCamp Austin in June 2008 had over 130 people sign up, and over [...]
iTaggit.com, the leading online resource for valuing and organizing household items and collectibles, launched its “ValueRange It” tool in beta today. The new tool is designed to give users a value range for any item, providing them with data to make smart decisions on what to do with their belongings – be it sell, insure, donate, or simply track over time. For iTaggit users looking to sell, the website offers time savings and convenience through [...]
I’ve seen some Twitter traffic recently from people who have tried to look back and see what their very first tweet was. To their surprise, they couldn’t find it! It makes sense really, Twitter has so many messages that it would be really hard to keep them all forever. Luckily, a local Austin company will take care of that problem for you for free. BackupMyTweets will backup all your tweets so you can retrieve them [...]
