The local entrepreneur/tech community is in store for more exciting prospects this Spring, with the first ever Startup Weekend-Austin from April 30-May 2. After what already seems to be a great year with TedX, Ignite and a slue of other events, Startup Weekend is yet another great asset and addition to the Austin community. Startup Weekend, organized and created by Andrew Hyde, who hails in from Boulder, Colorado, was first started over 3 years ago [...]
When we heard that Sprint was rolling out 4G service in Austin, we knew it was something that we wanted to check out. For years people have been talking about how great WiMax was going to be, and now it’s finally here. We’ve all had or tried out 3G network data services that generally saw download speeds of 600kbps. The other day we ran a network speed test at our happy hour location, Buffalo Billiards, [...]
Normally you’re out pitching the VC’s. Well during SXSW we’ve got a little party for you where the VC’s will be pitching you. Our friend Larry Chiang, who wrote What They Don’t Teach You at Business School (and writes a BusinessWeek column with the same name) is throwing a Reverse VC Pitch party downtown on March 14th. This isn’t an official SXSW event, so you don’t even need a badge to attend. This will be [...]
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 [...]
Just before the turn of the New Year, an Austin up-and-comer, FocalPop, announced the launch of their site focalpop.com – a new online marketplace where photo seekers can solicit the shots they want, and photographers answer by offering up their best interpretation. The company serves to unite photographers and photo buyers on their admittingly easy to navigate site. The business model is even rather simple – image seekers create a request describing the photo they [...]
Venture Capital is always the hot topic among startup technology companies. How do you land venture capital? How do you get a meeting? Who do you pitch? What do they want to hear? Most people think that they can call up and make an appointment, do a 60-minute presentation, and then pickup their check at the door on the way out. The answer is that you need to start building relationships as soon as possible [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Bryan Haardt and Rob Donnelly of Cgate Health. The company recently received a seven figure seed investment from DFJ Mercury, and enjoys offices in both Houston and Austin. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Cgate Health creates software to provide simple, flexible and cost effective Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions. Unlike the current landscape of complex, incomplete and expensive Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, our proven software [...]
Austin-based FeedMagnet launched into public beta late last week. The service pulls together feeds from your social media sites and presents them in a single stream. FeedMagnet also allows you to embed those streams directly onto your website. The public beta includes the basic, free service which limits the number of authors and search topics you can use, as well as how many updates they will pull per hour. The company is working on a [...]
Following rumors from Silicon Alley Insider last week, Gowalla officially announced today a funding raise of $8.4 million in venture capital from Greylock Partners, Maples Investments, Shasta Ventures and others. Gowalla is a location-based social networking application for smart phones. Similar to Foursquare, they let you share and discover new locations based on your social networks. Users earn stamps for their digital passports based on the places they’ve visited, which range from Seattle’s Space Needle [...]
