Today’s Q&A feature is with Jennifer Svensson, CEO VertiGO Solutions. VertiGO’s new consumer app, Yippity, will launch in beta at tonight’s Austin Startup Week’s Austin Tech Happy Hour. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company. VertiGO Solutions is a mobility systems integrator that offers everything from mobile device recycling to the sale of new devices and services to complex mission critical solutions. VertiGO is pleased to announce our new solution called Yippity. Yippity [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with ProspX CEO Todd Young. The company announced some major milestones, and new funding this week.
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Anthony Castoro, the CEO of Heatwave Interactive. The company has been at SXSW Screenburn showing off Platinum Life, their iSamJackson iPhone app, and Gods & Heroes. Perhaps you were at their party at The Belmont last night?
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joseph Kelly, COO of Infochimps. Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company? Infochimps is a website to find, share, or sell any dataset in the world. Our collection has over 5,000 datasets on topics from number of deaths in a Rambo movie to US census data. Much of our data is free, however buyers come to us to look for data like the results from a Zogby poll [...]
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 [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Rob Hirschfeld, the founder and CEO of Zehicle (http://zehicle.com/). Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company? Zehicle connects people to their cars through their smart phones. All cars since 1996 have a standard data interface and Zehicle figured out how to get that data to people’s phones. We use the data to both give drivers feedback and can also share the data between drivers. Ultimately, we’re connecting drivers [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Paul D. Allen, the founder and CEO of PayMyRent.net (http://www.paymyrent.net/). Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company? PayMyRent.net is an online service provider to rental property owners, landlords and/or community managers who need a single tool to assist with the day to day headache of managing rentals. PayMyRent.net is a “one stop shop” for the entire rental process including finding and screening residents to fill a vacancy, managing [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Mark McClain, the CEO of SailPoint. Give us the elevator pitch for you company? SailPoint provides identity governance software that helps organizations strengthen controls over user access to critical systems and data, streamline costly IT compliance processes, and reduce the risks of failed audits, fraud and corporate data loss or theft. Our software, IdentityIQ, helps Global 1000 companies proactively manage IT risk to prevent security breaches and ensure compliance with [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joel Trammell, the Chairman, co-founder, and CEO of NetQoS. Give us the elevator pitch for you company? NetQoS provides network performance management software and services that improve application delivery across the world’s most complex networks. More than 1,000 service providers, government agencies, and large enterprises – including half of the Fortune 100 – use the NetQoS Performance Center to monitor application service levels, troubleshoot problems quickly, and plan for change. [...]
Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Robert Miggins, Senior VP of Business Development at Peer1, who is launching an exciting new program for tech startups named CloudXcelerator. Before we talk about CloudXcelerator, tell us a little about Peer1 as a company? PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides for its more than 10,000 customers. As a global online IT hosting provider, PEER 1 offers a reliable [...]
