Archive for News
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Crush It! An Evening with Gary V on Sept 15
Each year Texchange hosts one big blockbuster event with a fantastic speaker that is open to the public (other events are for members only). This year on Sept 15th, we’re bringing Gary Vaynerchuk to Austin to speak at the AT&T Conference Center at UT. Gary first came to internet stardom with h...
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Free Sneak Preview of Catfish
We have a special present for you! We’ve been working with Rogue Pictures to bring you a free and exclusive pre-screening of the upcoming movie Catfish. This movie was the darling of Sundance, and will be released on a limited basis on 9/17. This is your chance to see it and experience what t...
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The 2010 Inc. 5000
The list just came out for the 5,000 fastest growing companies in the U.S. as reported by Inc. Magazine. Scanning through the list of the top 1,000 companies reveals a few names that I can recognize. You can see all the companies in the list for the Austin Metro Region. There are other sub-lists to ...
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Capital Factory Demo Day
The 2nd Capital Factory Demo Day is coming on September 8th. We will have 300 investors, press, and technology entrepreneurs in attendance to watch the launch of the 5 companies from our 2010 program. This is an invitation-only event, and we’re keeping the quality of the content and the networking...
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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW
A version of this post originally appeared on Juan Sequeda’s blog. Personally, I believe that the Semantic Web will become mainstream in the next few years (I actually have a bet on this with some college friends). I know that this is a strong statement, but I am confident that it will happen....
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Capital Factory Hosts “Entrepreneurship for Programmers” August 26
Austin-based incubator Capital Factory, is hosting an Entrepreneurship for Programmers training day next Thursday, August 26th. The training is part of the Lone Star Ruby Conference at the Norris Conference Center, which continues on Friday and Saturday, and features speakers Tom Preston-Werner o...
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Smoothstone Lands $48M
It’s been almost two years since we first saw Smooth-Stone pitch their business at the Rice Alliance venture forum. The company has been making steady progress, culminating in a huge round of financing. The company announced it is raising million from a unique syndicate of investors comprising in...
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CallVine Launches
I’ve been tracking the progress of CallVine very closely since meeting company CEO Rudy Prince several months ago. It has always seemed to me that the capacity for my iPhone to manage group communications has always been lacking. When I saw Rudy at the most recent Austin Tech Happy Hour, I was exc...
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The Middle: WP Engine
In the big world of Wordpress blogs there are those big ones on the high end (Techcrunch) where a paid staff can provide all the help you need. On the low end, hosted Wordpress is perfect for many. But what about the middle? In that big middle ground you want to customize Wordpress just enough that ...
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Karmaback Announces Social Coupons
Today, Karmaback, the only online engagement and sweepstakes platform that rewards the community’s engagement and evangelism, announced Social Coupons, a new feature targeted at enabling companies to grow their online community while in turn rewarding the community’s engagem...
