Austin-based gaming company Heatwave Interactive announced that they’ve raised $7.5M from Syncom Venture Partners. Syncom is taking a unique approach to creating a studio that will develop video game IP that can be used across other forms of media. The company is comprised of gaming industry veterans that have been responsible for titles such as [...]
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Mirage Networks, an Austin-based developer of Network Access Control (NAC) technology, has been named the winner of the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Best Entrepreneurial Company Award. The award is presented annually to the company with fewer than 300 employees showing the highest achievement in innovative product development, strategic business development and focused market strategy.
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You can find the story here. It’s a great article about Stewart Friedman’s recent visit to Austin, his seminar at Bazaarvoice, and how leadership training is changing to serve the whole person. A pre-release copy of the book has proven to be an amazing read. You can pre-order a copy on Amazon.
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The big brands are quickly learning how to market using the social networking tools of the day. Case in point, a new Facebook application namd Alter Ego that is just plain….well….cool. And you can see the Burn branding all over it, which is a Coca Cola brand. In Alter Ego you can create an alter [...]
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We reported back in January that we heard Pluck was for sale. Today it’s being reported that Demand Media, run by former MySpace Chairman Richard Rosenblatt, is acquiring the company for between $50M and $60M. Pretty good for a company with about $10M in 2007 revenue. Mashable has good coverage of the news with Rosenblatt and [...]
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Active Power was recognized by EQUITIES magazine as one of Ten Alternative Energy Companies on the Rise in their January 2008 issue. The company was also named an EQUITIES “pick for 2008.” “I listed Active Power as an alternative energy company worth watching in 2008 based on the company’s innovative technology and the potential for [...]
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Fortune magazine release it’s annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. Sure, we expected Google (No. 1) and Starbucks (No. 7) to be on the list. Who wouldn’t like crazy benefits like free meals, free coffee, and Segway’s as status symbols? They are legendary brands after all. But the Container Store (No. [...]
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Our friends over at SXSWi announced that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, will deliver the keynote presentation on Sunday, March 9th at 2pm. Mark is one of the luckier guys in the world, and he’s been hitting the speaking circuit lately, appearing recently on 60 Minutes to try to explain the whole Beacon thing. The [...]
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If you don’t live in the UK, you might not know of The Guardian right off the bat. You might think about The Guardian as a newspaper in the UK, but it’s also a huge media conglomerate. Their Guardian Unlimited website has been voted the best newspaper website for the past three years at the [...]
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