AustinStartup

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Anthony Castoro, the CEO of Heatwave Interactive. The company has been at SXSW Screenburn showing off Platinum Life, their iSamJackson iPhone app, and Gods & Heroes. Perhaps you were at their party at The Belmont last night?

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joseph Kelly, COO of Infochimps.
Q:  Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Infochimps is a website to find, share, or sell any dataset in the world.  Our collection has over 5,000 datasets on topics from number of deaths in a Rambo movie to US census data.  Much of our data [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Carrie Chitsey, the CEO of Txt4CRM.

Q:  Give us the elevator pitch for your company?

Mobile text messaging has matured beyond teenagers and TV reality show voting to become a powerful, mission critical component of any brand’s CRM strategy.  It’s broad reach and immediacy of response is why it has become the [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Rob Hirschfeld, the founder and CEO of Zehicle (http://zehicle.com/).
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
Zehicle connects people to their cars through their smart phones.  All cars since 1996 have a standard data interface and Zehicle figured out how to get that data to people’s phones.  We use the [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Paul D. Allen, the founder and CEO of PayMyRent.net (http://www.paymyrent.net/).
Q: Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
PayMyRent.net is an online service provider to rental property owners, landlords
and/or community managers who need a single tool to assist with the day to day headache of managing rentals.  PayMyRent.net is a “one [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Mark McClain, the CEO of SailPoint.
Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
SailPoint provides identity governance software that helps organizations strengthen controls over user access to critical systems and data, streamline costly IT compliance processes, and reduce the risks of failed audits, fraud and corporate data loss or theft. Our [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Joel Trammell, the Chairman, co-founder, and CEO of NetQoS.
Give us the elevator pitch for you company?
NetQoS provides network performance management software and services that improve application delivery across the world’s most complex networks. More than 1,000 service providers, government agencies, and large enterprises – including half of the [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Robert Miggins, Senior VP of  Business Development at Peer1, who is launching an exciting new program for tech startups named CloudXcelerator.
Before we talk about CloudXcelerator, tell us a little about Peer1 as a company?
PEER 1 believes in the limitless opportunity of the Internet, and the business growth potential it provides [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Todd Hansen, one of the founders of Better Than The Van.
Give us the elevator pitch for your company?
Better Than The Van connects bands with free places to stay across the US, Canada and Europe. By hosting bands you support live music in your community and directly connect with the artists. [...]

Today’s Q&A Wednesday is with Melissa Simpler, CEO of Affinegy.
Give us the elevator pitch for Affinegy. How long has the company been around?
Affinegy makes software that removes networking complexity for consumers who wish to lead a converged Digital Lifestyle, and enables service providers to maximize revenues and profitability in the Digital Home. Our solutions deliver [...]