Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Jagath Narayan from Ordoro. The company will be presenting at the Under The Radar Conference on November 9th. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Ordoro helps retailers scale their ecommerce business. First, we sync their inventory with Amazon, eBay and other popular webstores, in real-time. Then, we display all their orders in a single view. Finally, we automate purchasing and fulfillment. And Ordoro does all this in [...]
Joshua Baer had an excellent post on Mashable today with tips on how to raise money on AngelList. An excerpt is below, but you can read the rest of the post here. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. I’ve personally raised $1 million from AngelList for my startup, and have helped dozens of other startups raise $3 million more. I’ve referred more than 20 startups to [...]
Noesis Energy is targeting the estimated $70B in annual U.S. energy waste by helping commercial and industrial customers drive greater energy efficiencies out of their operations. Backed by an initial investment of $6.5M from Austin Ventures, and support for follow-on acquisitions, the company plans to unveil a cloud-based energy management platform that combines free analytics tools, energy market data, educational resources and a community of experts to help in-house energy managers and third-party consultants make [...]
Calxeda today unveiled its ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip, which consumes as little as 1.5 watts, the industry’s first server processor to achieve this milestone. Following HP’s announcement to incorporate Calxeda technology in its first-generation of extreme low energy server development platforms, Calxeda is launching EnergyCore at simultaneous events in Palo Alto, CA and Austin, TX. A live stream of the announcement can be viewed online at 4 pm eastern time US at live.calxeda.com. The news and [...]
I’ve pulled back on the use of infographics lately, but I spotted one over the weekend that warranted a second look. It visualizes data from the Startup Genome, a project that takes a scientific approach to cracking the “innovation code.” Teaming up with educators from Berkeley and Stanford, they looked at more than 3000 companies, analyzing the customer, product, team, business model and financials. One of the big findings amongst the data was that almost [...]
I get asked this question all the time, and here’s a great infographic from Business.com talking about the various forms of incorporation. I’m not a lawyer, but there are tons of great firms in town that specialize in tech startups. Visit Business.com for more resources on How to Start a Business
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 [...]
