The finalists have been announced for the SXSW Accelerator 2012. A handful of Austin-based companies made the cut out of the 670 that submitted. Here are the local companies you will be seeing up on stage! Umbel Austin, TX umbel.com Umbel empowers publishers, advertisers and agencies with a deep understanding of audience engagement by leveraging vast amounts of aggregated, real-time social data. The knowledge and insights Umbel provides to clients translates into more effective research, [...]
The Olympic Games have borne many legends – Jesse Owens, Mary Lou Retton, Michael Phelps, Eddie the Eagle, and the Jamaican Bobsled team, to name a few – all world-class athletic innovators in their respective sports. On Saturday, Jan. 21, a new league of innovative legends will emerge during the inaugural Austin Startup Olympics, a grueling 10-event competition featuring eight of Austin’s elite startups – Adlucent, Boundless Network, Build-a-Sign, Mass Relevance, SpareFoot, Spredfast, uShip, and [...]
Registration closes today for Austin Tech Happy Hour. You can save a few bucks by registering today, or you can pay $10 at the door. When: Thursday, December 1st from 6p – 8p Where: Molotov Lounge Sponsors Equitable Commercial Realty | ECR is the premier commercial real estate leasing and sales firm in Austin, Texas with expertise in office, industrial, manufacturing, warehouse, retail and medical property types. Our goal is to exceed your expectations. To [...]
This guest blog post was written by Jacqueline Hughes. Lately there has been a lot of buzz in Austin around recruiting talent to our city. The Austin Technology Council recently took to the road with 30 CEOs in hopes of bringing some top technology talent our way from California. I get at least an email a week from friends and companies unable to find developers to join their startup. Occasionally, I know someone who is [...]
Not a month goes by that I don’t speak with an entrepreneur that is busily writing code, planning for the day they are going to unleash it upon some lucky customer. That fortunate soul will certainly find that this hand-crafted website solves all their problems. The only problem with this whole story is that the entrepreneur in this story has never actually spoken with one of these fabled customers. Even today, many people are writing [...]
How would you like to launch your startup into the stratosphere at the hottest of all hot tech conferences, Southby? Who wouldn’t? Well, it won’t happen if you don’t get off your tail and apply this week. This is your chance to get seen by thousands of interested people, investors, bloggers, press, and media of all kinds. The fourth annual SXSW Accelerator will take March 12-14 at the 2012 SXSW Festival in Austin Texas. A [...]
It’s hard to start thinking about March already, but before you know it throngs of visitors will flock to Austin to get a little taste of the awesomeness that we’ve got going around here. Some of my favorite panels (okay, some friends in there too), so far: Stephen Wolfram on Computation and Its Impact on the Future. Any chance to hear him speak, I will take it. Dave Gray will draw from his upcoming book [...]
If you’re attending the Innotech Beta Summit on Thursday, here’s a rundown on the companies that you will see present. Is it a coincidence that half of the companies presenting are “Big Data” plays? You decide. If you want to register for the conference (so you can attend the beta summit), you can register here and use the special discount code for AustinStartup readers that will you 25% off. That code is SML25. I’ve got [...]
The 9th annual Texas Wireless Summit (TWS), co-hosted by The University of Texas at Austin’s Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) and Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), continues its tradition again this year as an interactive event for leaders in the wireless industry to discuss emerging technologies and new business models, changing the industry over the next few years. Register to attend the event on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference [...]
The next Austin Tech Happy Hour is coming up on Thursday, October 20th sponsored by Turnstone. Early Bird tickets will be on sale till Thursday, so get yours today! With this awesome weather, the upstairs balcony at Molotov will be a great place to relax and unwind after hitting the Innotech conference earlier in the day. If you’re attending Innotech, we have a discount code for readers of AustinStartup. For the conference use SML25, and [...]
