AustinStartup

It’s been said: “Imitation is the sincerest forms of flattery.” But, what if the imitation involves completely copying whole sections or the entire works of others? Or, what if the imitation turns out to be a complete fake, but nonetheless is passed off as the real thing?
On the eve of SXSW, these question about [...]

Jeff Collier wants to update the Christian community for Net Generation. Enter Zetify.com

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.

Normally, my goal with this space is to write about Austin-area companies that are intriguing, but maybe not “on the radar” yet. But, I’m cheating a bit this time, by writing about Conformity. I met Scott Bils, its founding CEO, more than three years ago when we were both laboring away at ventures – me [...]

I sometimes think of my friend Glyn Meek as a modern day “Thomas Edison of technology” mainly because he is always working on least 3-4 inventions at once.  It could be posters made of hundreds of micro-satellite photos, it might be a new search technology (like Llesiant, that we wrote about earlier this year), it [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
The quest for the “killer app” is like the search for the Holy Grail: irresistible and never-ending. Of course, like website UIs and Michelle Obama’s wardrobe, everyone has an opinion about what it will be. Many think the answer is communications. I enjoyed a recent interview with [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
Whether you use Twitter or not, it continues to gain business and consumer users at a rate that can’t be ignored. Austin, of course, deserves a wee bit of credit for helping Twitter take off, when it became the hit of SXSW Interactive 2007, winning the web award that year [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
One of the most amazing “learning” tools I saw recently was on the The New York Times website.  I’m guessing it was a  sophisticated, customized application of Flash.  (If anyone knows precisely, please add a reply and let us all know.)  It was produced for the recent election, specifically for the [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
In his new book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World,” Don Tapscott talks about a new generation “bathed in bits.” The research in the book identifies eight “net gen” norms that Don goes on to examine and extend into discussions about the coming transformation of institutions and [...]

Freshtech Friday by Steve Guengerich
Remember the “Back to the Future” series from 1980s? In the second movie of the three-part series chronicling the perils of time travel and big hair, the main “bad guy” Biff Henderson, has a flash of insight. A future Biff manages to send an almanac of sports scores to his younger [...]