AustinStartup

It’s time again for the Beta Summit at the Austin Innotech Conference. This is the second year that I’ve had the pleasure of hosting this event, and we’ve got some great companies that are going to show you some early stage, or recently launched technologies.

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Steve Odom, Founder and CEO of Gelato.
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Gelato is a new online dating service that imports what you’re doing at Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Pandora and other services to build your dating profile. It’s about finding the right dates based on what they are [...]

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.

Over 200 developers from as far away as Houston and Dallas poured into Austin’s Monarch Event Center to attend Joel Spolsky’s Stack Overflow DevDays event. Prefinery’s Justin Britten has our review.

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Hayes Davis, Founder and CEO of Appozite.
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for your company.
Appozite is the company behind CheapTweet.com, a social deals search engine that indexes the deals people are talking about on Twitter. Coupons and deals sites are a big category but since they’re based on the affiliate [...]

Today’s guest blogger is Liz Hocker, a Senior HR Consultant at Vhr – Human Resource Solutions from vcfo. Liz and her team of experienced HR professionals work with companies of all sizes to implement human resource strategies and solutions. She has over 13 years experience in Human Resource Management and Business Operations working [...]

Dachis Group announced a select group of alliance partners today, including Socialware. Both companies are based in Austin. You may have read that I recently joined the Dachis Group, and I promise that the blog won’t become a platform for our news. But I think it’s significant that with a handful of partners in the [...]

On October 14, Joel Spolsky and Stack Overflow will be in town for the Austin leg of the their DevDays tour, co-presented by Carsonified (the most excellent Brits behind the FoWA family of conferences). Our own Jason Cohen from SmartBear is also speaking.

In need of some new hangouts for you and your friends? Check out this new Austin startup that offers fun ways to share and discover cool locations.

Gowalla, a web and iPhone application based out of the parent company, Alamofire, recently unveiled their new travel-sharing iPhone app to the public. The application is free and offers a fun, new interpretation of social networking.

Troux Technologies, the leader in Strategic IT Planning and Control software, today announced that it has secured a $10 million investment to further expand reach into new geographies and extend recent sales momentum. The investment has been made by Austin Ventures, Greylock Partners and a consortium of Scandinavian investors.
The investment follows a period of record [...]