The Texas Wireless Summit is coming October 14-16, and you can get a $100 discount using the code TWS08100 when you register. If you’re into wireless and live in Texas, this is the event to attend. Where else can you see the CTO of AT&T and the President of Nokia speak?
One of the most interesting [...]
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The Austin Technology Incubator has created an additional focus in the area of Bioscience, and hired Jessica Hanover to be the director of the initiative. Bioscience is now the third area of vertical focus for the ATI, joining clean energy, and IT/wireless.
There is one company in the bioscience incubator so far, Terapio, which is focused [...]
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On the Austin Bootstrap messaging boards, there was recently a discussion of free and “freemium” business models. Richard MacKinnon of LessNetworks had a very thoughtful response based on five years of running this type of business model. We asked Richard for permission to re-publish here.
Thoughts on the Free Model
In the early days of free WiFi [...]
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Austin-based Hyper9 (formerly InovaWave) announced additional funds in their $7.2M Series B round from Maples Investments. Mike Maples Jr. is a former Austinite, and was previously an executive with Motive and Tivoli. His first fund at Maples Investments was staked with around $15M from Austin Ventures, and that fund is invested in startups such as [...]
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It all started during SXSW 2008 at Porter Novelli’s big Mix and Six kickoff party. I met Pete Cashmore, and the Mashable crew was talking about doing events all across the country. No nationwide tour of tech hotspots would be complete without a stop in Austin, and it wasn’t long before I started working with [...]
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SeedStage Studios is launching a series of services today that are squarely aimed at the early stage technology companies in Austin. The company produces creative video for emerging companies. Company co-founder Charles Dykes tells us “The corporate spoofs that are so prevalent on the web today might be a fun way to experiment with media, [...]
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Spiceworks, the ad supported, Austin-based IT management company, has announced a pretty cool feature for their 400,000 IT managers -crowdsourcing. The new features, called SpiceLists, enable users to collaboratively develop, share, and rank IT best practices, products and services, and reports – making it even easier for them to manage their networks. The SpiceLists address [...]
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Next Wednesday July 30th the people behind Mashable.com, the top social networking and social media blog, will be in Austin. They’re here for the Austin stop of the Mashable Summer Tour in conjunction with Austin Tech Happy Hour.
Pete Cashmore, Mark Rizzin, and Karen Hartline will be in town to see what Austin’s got goin’ on in the [...]
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You can add ActaCell to the growing list (2 so far!) of highly secretive battery technology companies in Austin. The company announced a $5.8M Series A financing today.
ActaCell is creating some sort of new technology in the Lithium-Ion battery market, and has been in the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) for several months now. It appears [...]
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If your iPhone application is in the iPhone app store, and you’re an Austin-based company, we’d like to hear from you. We’re searching, and so far we see zippo. Zero. Nothing.
Please ping the editor [at] austinstartup with dot com as the top level domain.
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