Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Carrie Chitsey, the CEO of Txt4CRM. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Mobile text messaging has matured beyond teenagers and TV reality show voting to become a powerful, mission critical component of any brand’s CRM strategy. It’s broad reach and immediacy of response is why it has become the “direct response, mass mobile media”. TXT4 CRM is an enterprise class, next generation text messaging platform build by [...]
As one of the co-founders of Tech Ranch Austin, Kevin Koym is well known in the Austin tech community as a person who has help to foster entrepreneurship. Matt Scherer sat down with him to discuss how Austin Innotech, set for Oct. 29, at the Austin Convention Center, would help tech entrepreneurs. Q: How have you have seen the change in entrepreneurship in Austin in the last couple of years? A: Austin is getting more [...]
Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me in services, he in software – that were focused on helping companies in the post-Sarbanes Oxley regulatory world. Scott’s firm [...]
80legs, a startup that provides a web crawling service for the masses, officially launched on Wednesday at DEMOfall in San Diego.
One of the most pressing issues for startups and small businesses is selecting the appropriate health care provider and package for entrepreneurs and their employees. No matter how new or small your company is, you can get health insurance. And, it might not be as expensive as you think.
MicroAssist Inc., a local company that provides software and IT training, as well as specific application development, launched a new e-learning course at DEMO on Tuesday called EthicsEd. The web-based program hopes to curb sexual misconduct in schools by teaching school employees how to identify, avoid and report inappropriate behavior and sexual abuses.
Yet another Austin-based company launching at DEMO this week is Infochimps. They launched a new marketplace where users can upload and sell their datasets to potential buyers such as researchers or application developers. Infochimps customers control the terms, set the price, and Infochimps handles storage, distribution and billing. Infochimps takes a commission from each sale in the marketplace and also provides a separate, free service where anyone can upload, share and curate the data on the site.
A slew of innovative companies are presenting today at the DEMO Conference in San Diego. One that caught our eye is the Austin-based ge.la.to; it’s a free dating site that takes online dating to a whole new level and that makes Match.com and eHarmony.com look archaic. Users create a dating profile – in just two minutes – that’s distributed across a myriad of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Last.fm.
This will be the 3rd year of the Beta Summit at Innotech Austin, and the second year for me to host the event. We’re looking for 5 companies who would like to show off their latest technologies, even if it’s in beta form, to our audience attendees. Previous companies to showcase at the Beta Summit include OtherInBox (2008) and Phurnace (2007). If you’re selected for the Beta Summit, you get to present your 6-8 minute [...]
