TechStars has opened a new startup accelerator program in the capital of Texas, roughly 90 miles up the road from its TechStars Cloud program in San Antonio. With SXSW and Google Fiber, Austin is hot.…
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Austin's answer to TechStars or YCombinator shows off its graduating class of startups today (plus 15 other companies) as the third year of the Capital Factory accelerator program comes to a close. I went out last week to interview the startups to get readers the scoop.…
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[show=luckandthevirgin size=large]If I were given the power to make rules about online video advertising, here’d be one of them: No pre-roll ad…
Read MoreEntrepreneurial Stereotypes on Display at SXSW
Picture a tech startup founder. Are they male, maybe around 27 years old, and a resident of Silicon Valley? Apparently that's what it takes to build a tech startup according to the explicit and implicit wisdom shared at the Seed Combinator's panel today at SXSW.…
Read MoreMobileTechRoundup 185 — WinMo 6.5 and Moon Go Boom!
MoTR 185 is 34:20 minutes long and is a 32 MB file in MP3 format. CLICK HERE to download the file and…
Read MoreAustin's Capital Factory Incubator Bets on Consumer Startups
Capital Factory, Austin’s attempt to recreate the success of technology incubators such as YCombinator and TechStars, today announced the five startups it…
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