2008
Uniting Austin's Startup Community | Startup District
Austin's startup district forming and creating a coworking space in East Austin, Texas
About JD Lasica
J.D. Lasica is one of the world's leading authorities on social media and the revolution in user-created media. A writer, strategist, blogger and consultant, he is the co-founder and editorial director of Ourmedia.org, president of the Social Media Group
Todd Earwood
guy who likes snailmail and is on twitter
Voodoo Ventures - Idea Fuel Blog
’ve got 99 friends on Facebook but I hear from Jason Calacanis more than anyone. He has turned Facebook into a marketing platform for his human-powered search engine, Mahalo. And he doesn’t pay Facebook a dime for this primo branding opportunity.
Blog : Texas Startup Blog
Techcrunch is reporting Demand Media bought Austin-based Pluck for $75MM cash. Frankly, I am fairly surprised. I first wrote about Pluck after sitting on a panel at the McCombs School of Business (UT @ Austin)
Traces of Inspiration » Blog Archive » SXSWi: ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille
SXSWi: ValleySpeak for the Rest of Us: Developing Apps Outside InternetVille
2007
BoogarLists
With more than 1,000 venture capital and private equity firms listed, BoogarLists is an excellent place for entrepreneurs to start their search for investment capital. And for students, analysts and planners who need to kick-start or augment their on-lin
Best Financial Performers: Medical Solutions International
best home businesses
Web Worker Daily
by 6 othersIf you have the itch to work from home but not as an employee, how about checking out StartupNation’s Top 100 Home-based Businesses?
YouFig - Welcome
define a topic, assemble a team (invite friends, classmates, colleagues, coworkers. If you don't have a team we'll create one for you), collaborate in real time (discuss, write, chat, create and share as a group in a dedicated workspace) real time collab
Austin Startup
four Austin wireless companies were able to attend and showcase themselves at the CTIA press event, ShowStoppers, at a 70% cost savings. Digby (aka 30 Second Software), edioma, Media Excel, and BrainMedia.
HelioVolt - Solar Power. From the Ground Up - Home
HelioVolt’s FASST™ technology produces high-performance solar thin-film with pioneering time and materials efficiencies. 10 to 100 times faster than current processes. 100 times thinner than traditional silicon.
2007 Fast Cities: Austin, Texas - Dell - Whole Foods - South by Southwest
Austin's young population (75% are under 45) fuels a white-hot entertainment industry. The South by Southwest festival draws thousands of media professionals to the "live-music capital of the world" (1,580 bands! 70 venues!)
Austin Startup
Austin was ranked today as one of the five "Startup Hubs" in the US by Fast Company magazine. Click here for the entire list of "Fast Cities," and here to read why those chose Austin.
Startupping - A Community for Internet Entrepreneurs
by 2 othersStartupping is a one-of-a-kind community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs.
Startup Search. Directory of web technology startups.
Startup Search, a directory of the startup companies, products, investors, and people changing the web.
Software For Virtual Teams
more and more companies are going virtual. The answer to long commutes, inner city traffic, tapping into creative minds in other geographies and combating global warming is: a 'work from home' policy.
2006
For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap - New York Times
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 — When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn’t go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,00
Small Companies & Google Adsense is the future « The Paradigm Shift
It amazes me to think that my 1 person company is able to compete at a level where all the competitors have 600+ servers, and 300+ full time staff. I feel like I am ahead of my time, and when I look around at the companies out there today I have a hard ti
Startup Websites That Work > onstartups.com > OnStartups.com - Practical Advice for Software Startups
I am continually amazed by the lack of attention many startup founders and management teams give to their startup websites. Too often, its treated as a necessary evil (they’ll spend some time on it initially and then forget about it). Disclaime
