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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards recognize some of the most exciting tech developments in the connected world. The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

As I’ve mentioned in several Lucky7 posts before, we are living in the Golden Age of Technology ( here’s one of those posts ). Since I first wrote about the Golden Age in 2014, valuations for tech companies have only increased?—?rather I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having