AustinStartup

Earlier this year, Derek Williams and Paul Terry Walhus combined their efforts to launch Texas Coworking, an addition to the already growing trend of co-shared workspaces for entrepreneurs, business people and creative folk. After the continued success of Conjunctured, it’s quite clear that co-working is not only a viable solution for many, but a great means to bring everyone together under one roof and connect.

Las Vegas is the mecca for any and all surveillance, and has aggregated some of the most interesting behavioral data around. Among the lessons that the data exposes are two decision fallacies that fund the city’s gambling earnings, and which startups need to keep constantly in mind.

It’s time for Capital Factory 2010 to start kicking off with the opening of applications, startup speed dating, and office hours where you can meet the mentors and share ideas. If you didn’t keep track of Capital Factory in our inaugural year last year, five companies were selected for the program (Cubit Planning, Hourville, Sparefoot, [...]

For any potential and/or current entrepreneur, Andrews Kurth, a leading law firm for entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies, announced this week the launch of a new fixed-fee, start-up organization package.
In an effort to create cost certainty and streamline the process associated with launching a new company, Andrews Kurth is offering clients a comprehensive start-up organization [...]

Capture Design, a local Austin based product development services company, has been on a steadily paced growth since its inception in 2006. The company hosts an array of services, catered specifically to startups, early-stage companies and entrepreneurs. They do so by offering a highly flexible working structure with no minimums or commitments, and by being [...]

Venture Capital is always the hot topic among startup technology companies. How do you land venture capital? How do you get a meeting? Who do you pitch? What do they want to hear? Most people think that they can call up and make an appointment, do a 60-minute presentation, and then pickup their check at [...]

One of the interesting things that we discovered during our first year of Capital Factory was that very few companies had a complete founding team. By complete, I mean the founding team had people with both knowledge of their product and industry, and technical skills.

uShip, the global online shipping marketplace, today announced it has surpassed $125M in business transacted in just five years, two-thirds of which has occurred during the recession. In 2009, uShip’s revenues doubled versus 2008 and the company also enhanced local settings for customers in the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. uShip turned profitable [...]

A recent ReadWriteWeb article got us thinking – what local government initiatives are out there to help the local startup community? The Emerging Tech Program consults with Austin startups to help them meet their networking, financing, market development and business development needs.

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.