For any potential and/or current entrepreneur, Andrews Kurth, a leading law firm for entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies, announced this week the launch of a new fixed-fee, start-up organization package. In an effort to create cost certainty and streamline the process associated with launching a new company, Andrews Kurth is offering clients a comprehensive start-up organization package for the formation of a new corporation. The package is provided for a fixed fee of $5,000 and [...]
Some of the top cities in the world have opened government data to better serve their citizens and cities. Not only should the City of Austin get on board, but they should lead in the movement towards Semantic Web standards.
Capture Design, a local Austin based product development services company, has been on a steadily paced growth since its inception in 2006. The company hosts an array of services, catered specifically to startups, early-stage companies and entrepreneurs. They do so by offering a highly flexible working structure with no minimums or commitments, and by being just as fast, creative and responsive as their savvy clients. Here’s what they do: * Product Concept Generation via Sketches [...]
We hope you had a great holiday break! We’re excited to kick off the new year with a happy hour at Molotov on Thursday, January 28th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm. We’d like to thank our sponsors Spiceworks and TicketCity. Come on out meet some of the folks from Spiceworks and TicketCity, as well as your friends in the Austin tech community. We’ll also be showcasing a few up-and-coming technology startups to keep you in touch [...]
ReachForce, the leading provider of 100% guaranteed, role-based contact lists, data cleansing services and analytics-based targeting software (SaaS) to laser focus lead generation initiatives, today announced the close of additional financing by Greenhill SAVP. The latest round of funding will go toward the hiring of sales, marketing, and product development personnel. This round will also allow ReachForce to expand its product lines to reach a broader segment of the B2B marketing industry. Steve Brotman, Managing [...]
With all the recent tablet talk, we check in with Austin’s own tablet trendsetters, Motion Computing
If you remember over a year ago we wrote about Convio pulling their IPO and turning the corner on profitability at the same time. Today they re-filed for an IPO, although at $57.5M this one is a little bit smaller. I’m sure while this registration was in the works, they had no idea about last week’s carnage, but by the time it gets priced and hits the street, this week’s Wall St. misery will be [...]
Austin-based Virtual Bridges announced a $4M Series A financing from Austin Ventures. The company is in the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market, and claims faster payback than Citrix or VMWare. Coverage by The Statesman, and the full release can be found here. “Austin Ventures is excited to be partnering with Virtual Bridges in the desktop cloud and VDI market,” said Chris Pacitti, General Partner with Austin Ventures. “We see tremendous potential for disruption and value [...]
You may have seen them demo at Innotech at the Beta Summit, but today Spredfast is being launched to the world. It allows companies to manage, monitor, and measure their messages and voices across multiple social media channels. They are getting good coverage on the release today, with a story on GigaOM, and some coverage by Lori Hawkins at The Statesman. You can read the full release. As the first comprehensive social media dashboard, social [...]
Calling upon all central Texas tech companies, employees, entrepreneurs and friends to donate to the $600,000 matching fund for Haiti assistance
