Comments on: Can Austin Ignite the Fire of Entrepreneurship? http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Tony Flank http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-275702 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:39:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-275702 I have always considered moving my business to Austin. Not cheap coming from Calfornia. Need to see what the going rate is for http://www.northamerican.com/austin-tx-moving-companies.aspx” rel=”nofollow”>Austin moving companies is.

]]> By: Austin Still Pinning Its Hopes on Hardware Startups – GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236652 Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:15:10 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236652 [...] Austin Still Pinning Its Hopes on Hardware Startups By Stacey Higginbotham Feb. 22, 2010, 11:14am PST No Comments        0 Back during the first technology boom, Austin was a force when it came to silicon and enterprise software startups, but the escalating cost of the plants where chips were manufactured and the SaaS-ification of enterprise software hit Austin’s key sectors hard. Other than cursing Salesforce.com and semiconductor foundries,  Austin has tried to make a tech comeback with wireless, clean energy and even a few consumer web startups, but the city is in the midst of an identity crisis, and its startups are lagging those built in Silicon Valley. [...]

]]> By: April Riggs http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236651 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:15:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236651 Thank you so much for the Sweet Leaf Tea mention! We are Austin-proud and honestly love everything that this city offers!

]]> By: Dan Steinborn http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236650 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:35:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236650 And dont forget 15 year old Austin company, PrintGlobe.com, which is leading the online business printing space. To Todd’s comment below, the irony is that unfortunately some of the big VC investors in Austin already act like they are Menlo Park’s finest. Hope life is treating you well Stacey!

]]> By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » Chit Chat in Austin, Texas http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236649 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:44:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236649 [...] Higginbotham writes about Austin in GigaOm. It is worth a look. Here is the link. Very [...]

]]> By: Haji Sillah Seesay http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236648 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:21:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236648 I think there’s a need for another tech-centric entrepreneur center or many more. The notion that anybody with a great idea has to relocate to ‘the valley’ to increase their chances of visibility is ridiculous…Venturing into a start up is challenging enough–let alone moving across country—talk about compounding the RISK!!!!!

]]> By: Dean Kakridas http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236647 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:06:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236647 Love the article- thanks. Innovation is thriving in Austin!

Austin is home to frog design’s 2nd largest studio (after our SF headquarters) with over 100 passionate ethnographers, designers, strategists, technologists, and developers. We’re well known over the past 40 years for helping top brands like Apple, Disney, GE, and HP deliver iconic products and design to the market, but we’re also always interested to talk to local entrepreneurs with big ideas that need a healthy dose of design thinking + design doing to breakthrough to market success.

As one of the top global innovation firms on the planet, frog can be a valuable and powerful one-stop partner/ advisor/ quality stamp for taking an idea and making it real. Not just product and digital design anymore, we are a truly holistic, multi-disciplined product ideation, branding, design, strategy, prototyping, and development partner. Think ‘Apple in a box’ without having to deal with Steve.

And just one more thing…

Don’t miss our legendary SXSW Interactive Opening Party in March!

]]> By: David Hauser http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236646 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:54:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236646 Austin is a great place and has an energy better than San Francisco and other tech places. Affordable cost of living, people love living there and some great companies there. I really look forward to seeing Austin grow.

]]> By: Todd Barnard http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236645 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:39:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236645 Do nawt want silicon valley’s VC culture here in Austin!

:)

]]> By: joshuabaer http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236644 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 03:04:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236644 One of the biggest surprises to me is how hard it can be for startups to find technical co-founders in Austin. I would have thought it would be easy! But time and again I find 2 business guys or gals with a great idea and often even a working site and some traction, but no technical co-founder to balance them out. To try and help fix this problem, Capital Factory has started organizing “Startup Speed Dating” events to match up technical and business co-founders. We’ll be doing one more in January and another in February – keep your eye out or follow @CapitalFactory for more info.

]]> By: FlyingLeo http://gigaom.com/2010/01/15/can-austin-ignite-the-fire-of-entrepreneurship/#comment-236643 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:58:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=91395#comment-236643 I think Austin would be a great place for the up and coming entrepreneurs. It is the live music and indie movie capital, full of passionate people. There is also a substantial geek/nerd culture in Austin since it’s a college town. It is different from the Silicon Valley, and the entrepreneurs there may not be necessarily looking for Silicon Valley style exits, but there is definitely great potential. The cost of living is a fraction of the Silicon Valley, in fact there is a significant people who have migrated from the Silicon Valley to Austin (yours truly was one of them)

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