AustinStartup

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Lemuel Williams, Director of Business Development at Uptime Devices.
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
We are a hardware manufacturer of data center sensors that can detect threats such as ambient, power, and security.  We have engineers in India and Australia allowing us to compete within a global scale [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Brad Heath, President of VirTex Assembly Services.

Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
VirTex specializes in electronic manufacturing services that help our customers minimize cost, inventory levels and lead time, while increasing their supply chain flexibility.  By combining our facilities in Texas and Mexico with our other global partners, [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Steve Odom, Founder and CEO of Gelato.
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Gelato is a new online dating service that imports what you’re doing at Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Pandora and other services to build your dating profile. It’s about finding the right dates based on what they are [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Hayes Davis, Founder and CEO of Appozite.
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company.
Appozite is the company behind CheapTweet.com, a social deals search engine that indexes the deals people are talking about on Twitter. Coupons and deals sites are a big category but since they’re based on the affiliate [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Tab Schadt, the founder and CEO of DoubleHorn Communications (www.doublehorncommunications.com/).
Q:   What commitments or beliefs drive DoubleHorn Communications on a daily basis?
1)      We remind ourselves daily that we are Texas Owned, Texas Operated, Texas Focused.  In other words, we avoid casting a wide net and not delivering on fundamental expectations of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]