Comments on: What's wrong with Austin? http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jake neilson http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190677 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:44:11 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190677 location is bullshit in today’s economy, what you need is experience and talent.

]]> By: Carleen Hawn http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190682 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:50:35 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190682 Employing irony guys, we know there is nothing wrong with Austin, which …”isn’t exactly a tech backwater.”

;)

]]> By: Roberto Villegas http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190681 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:42:02 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190681 I wouldn’t even hint at Austin being a tech backwater. It’s possible one of the best areas for design and anything else that has to deal with it. SXSW should be a huge indication at that.

]]> By: Andy Freeman http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190680 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:22:48 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190680 If potential employees prefer, say Google, to your biz, doesn’t that say something important about said biz?

If you can’t compete with the best, you’re not the best.

]]> By: Ben Kuo http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190679 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:05:31 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190679 Being in the Bay Area does not matter. Being in a technology center does.

btw,
Austin has lots of venture activity, see Google Maps mashup below:
http://www.texastechpulse.com/intelligence/map/

Lots of venture funds:
http://www.texastechpulse.com/vc.php

Very recently funded companies in Austin: Nuventix, Element Labs, Astadia, SensorTran, Troux Technologies, OnNetworks, LabNow, Ziliant, BreakingPoint, CoreTrace, FiveRuns, and on and on and on. It’s a great market for technology startups.

]]> By: Terence Pua http://gigaom.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190678 Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:39:59 +0000 http://foundread.com/2008/01/10/whats-wrong-with-austin/#comment-190678 Passion, perseverance and hard work are the ingredients to success, not location.

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