Thom Singer is the director of business development for vcfo, inc. He is also the author of three books on the power of business relationships and networking. He can be reached at www.thomsinger.com.
Have you heard? The international economy is not doing great. One cannot pick up a newspaper, read a website or hear a broadcast [...]
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On the opening day of the inaugural SpiceWorld 2008 user conference, Spiceworks announced that the user base for the industry’s first free crowdsourced IT management application for small and medium businesses has doubled to more than 500,000 in just nine months – making the Spiceworks IT Desktop the world’s fastest growing IT management application. In [...]
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Austin Ventures, fresh off the close of $900M for a new fund, announced the commitment of up to $75 million of equity capital for the creation of AVRON Partners, Inc., a new supply chain services acquisition and strategic business development company. The new organization has been formed in partnership with Ronald T. Sorrow, co-founder and [...]
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Rackspace is in Austin today hosting an event at Austin City Limits, complete with BBQ lunch! We didn’t really hear about this event ahead of time, so we couldn’t help them promote it. Don’t they know who we are? (totally kidding) For future reference, Rackers, keep us in the loop. Despite that, every mover and [...]
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Small World Labs, an Austin-based provider of enterprise social networking software and online community building expertise, today announced a partnership with one of Hollywood’s most successful writers and producers, resulting in “Showbizzle,” a unique form of Internet entertainment that blends traditional broadcast storytelling with the two-way conversions enabled by social media.
“We have seen many transformations [...]
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Austin Ventures (“AV”), one of the nation’s leading venture and growth capital firms, announces the acquisition of three companies to launch Port Logistics Group (“PLG”). The investment was made in partnership with Robert Stull, a leading executive in the transportation logistics and distribution services industries. Mr. Stull will lead PLG as its President and Chief [...]
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Here’s a summary of some of the local tech news here in Austin today.
Convio rolled out some new functionality today that helps support non-profits that operate through an affiliate model (we’re thinking like state and local chapters of the Red Cross and such).
Bazaarvoice has added Cars.com to it’s growing list of the top internet retailers.
HomeAway [...]
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Last week was just crazy.
We had the Texas Wireless Summit, which also included the Wireless Seedstage Forum (posting coming soon). Congratulations to Moximity for winning the award for “best pitch” at the forum. Thursday was also Innotech and the Post Conference Cocktails afterward put on by Austin Tech Happy Hour and the Austin Technology Council. [...]
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Austin Tech Happy Hour is tonight at Six Lounge from 5:30pm - 8:00pm, and in case you haven’t pre-registered we just reduced the door fee to $10. We’ve got people from the Innotech Event at the convention center, plus attendees from the Texas Wireless Summit at The Hilton, so there will be plenty of great [...]
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Interesting panel at the Texas Wireless Summit today with folks like Wallace Henderson from the TRPSA and Meredith Attwell-Baker of the NTIA. Very timely given the election as well. Probably too much detail for you, unless you’re really interested in various parts of the wireless spectrum, and the regulatory aspects of them. If that interests [...]
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