AustinStartup

My next door neighbor is Dave Thomas. (No, not related to the famous Wendy’s founder.) Dave, Karen, and their family have been great neighbors over the years and, while we may go weeks sometimes not seeing much of each other, due to being involved in our separate professional and personal pursuits, we always know they [...]

Normally, I use this space to talk about a (hopefully) fresh software venture or other, or a new tech trend that has caught my attention in recent weeks. However, this time I want to share a slightly different subject that starts with a recent catch-up meeting I had with Bijoy Goswami, Bootstrap founder and Austin evangelist, where we were talking about mapping and roots.

The 28th annual running of UT-Austin’s Global Moot Corp was completed this past weekend and, for the first time for this event, I participated as a judge. In case you didn’t catch the post-event coverage of the event, there were a couple of outcomes worth note.
First, already informally regarded as the “super bowl” of investment [...]

You’ve got to hand it to the mice in the ATX promotion machine…they are eating their multi-vitamins these days and spinning the wheels of Austin goodness extra fast in the major media. Take Time magazine’s recent coverage of Austin.

It’s been said: “Imitation is the sincerest forms of flattery.” But, what if the imitation involves completely copying whole sections or the entire works of others? Or, what if the imitation turns out to be a complete fake, but nonetheless is passed off as the real thing?
On the eve of SXSW, these question about [...]

Jeff Collier wants to update the Christian community for Net Generation. Enter Zetify.com

The Texas Tribune may be being hailed as the timely poster child for the next generation of investigative news reporting, but at its core, the Trib is a content and technology company.

I served as a judge for the 3^rd annual cleantech venture summit (CEVS) yesterday, produced by the Austin Technology Incubator’s clean energy incubator (CEI). Between the morning and afternoon sessions, there were a little over 20 different deals that were pitched by company founders.

Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me [...]

I sometimes think of my friend Glyn Meek as a modern day “Thomas Edison of technology” mainly because he is always working on least 3-4 inventions at once.  It could be posters made of hundreds of micro-satellite photos, it might be a new search technology (like Llesiant, that we wrote about earlier this year), it [...]