Even in a time of macroeconomic uncertainty, growing companies are hiring. The best and brightest are always in high demand. Recruiting is difficult, and expensive yet it’s one of the most important things in any organization. A company is only made up of the people who are recruited into it, and the company culture is [...]
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George Dearing is a marketer and technologist with more than 15 years of experience helping businesses identify, adopt, and sustain solutions that drive growth and brand visibility. As Corporate Evangelist for Telligent Systems, George works with customers, partners and industry analysts to ensure the Telligent portfolio continues to be the top choice for global companies [...]
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by Guest Interviewer Matt Scherer
Raven Zachary helps people create, develop, and launch iPhone products and services. He also is a Contributing Analyst with The 451 Group. Raven is Program Co-Chair for the O’Reilly Media conference iPhoneLive, and is the founder of iPhoneDevCamp, a not-for-profit iPhone developer conference. He is currently advising a number of companies [...]
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Austin-based Moximity released a limited beta of their new mobile application on Thursday. The launch was celebrated at an amazing party at The Belmont after the TechCrunch Meet-Up. Moximity allows you to see restaurants, clubs, and other locations that are in close proximity to your location, and to broadcast your location to your friends via [...]
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Challenge Games, Andrew Busey’s latest startup and the company behind the popular online fantasy game Duels and the new fantasy baseball and card collecting game Baseball Boss, announced it has secured $10 million in Series B funding. The round is being led by Globespan Capital Partners with participation from Series A investor Sequoia Capital as [...]
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The Austin Tech Happy Hour on Thursday September 11th will be one you won’t want to miss. Author and BusinessWeek writer Sarah Lacy will be signing her new book, and SeedStage.tv will be filming their premier episode. At the door it will be $10 but there are early bird tickets available right now for $5. [...]
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Austin-based AntStorm is launching it’s unique human-powered search site today. The website is kind of a combination of the social bookmarking of del.icio.us and the human powered search of Mahalo, with a charitable twist.
The metaphor for AntStorm is a powerful one. Individually, an ant can’t do a whole lot, but as a group they can [...]
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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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