Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Another great spot to find emerging talent is the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards presented by KPMG on the evening of Monday, March 11 at the Austin Convention Center. SXSW audiences were among the first to witness the emergence of Twitter when they won the Best New App in 2007. Come early and stay late for drinks and snacks!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The fourth annual Relationship and Information Series for Entrepreneurs (RISE) returns to Austin, Texas, March 1-5, 2010 with five full days of free sessions covering a wide range of topics of interest to aspiring, new and established entrepreneurs in all industries. Sessions take place in venues around Greater Austin.

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SiliconHills

MAY 14, 2015

ESI Group, based in Paris, Thursday announced the acquisition of Austin-based Amoeba Technologies. Amoeba, a privately held company founded in 2007, makes Presto software which provides cooling simulation and design optimization for electronics such as computers, mobile devices, automotive electronics, medical electronics and data centers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Opting-out of Face Recognition at Airports was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. If you have concerns, it’s important that you tell someone whether it be at the gate in person or via social media.

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SiliconHills

MAY 14, 2015

The Austin-based startup, founded in 2007, also plans to hire additional employees to fill up its new office, which is more than 6,100 square feet. The company’s business is booming, according […] The post Vyopta Moves to Bigger Austin Headquarters and is Hiring appeared first on SiliconHills. Vyopta Inc.,

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2013

You may remember Austin-based startup uControl, which launched at the DEMO conference in 2007. Today their unique hardware and software solution launched in Austin with Time Warner Cable under the name of IntelligentHome.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2011

Austin is about to witness a wave of financial liquidity in the technology community not seen since 1999. Please join me in wishing and hoping that unforeseen circumstances don’t disrupt a hallmark in the chapter of Austin history.

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Austin Startup

JULY 26, 2017

One page after another, I saw another piece of Austin digital history. The City of Austin. This wasn’t 2015 — this was 2007. Dozens of other Austin coworking formal and informal spaces emerged thanks to early adopters like Julie. She even built the first website for Austin Pets Alive !, Whole Foods. Thanks, Julie.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

My purpose since the beginning has been to help entrepreneurs, especially those based in Austin, as well as to clarify and solidify my own learnings. The iPhone wasn’t out yet (that was 2007). We were rated the #1 company to work for in Austin when we were small, then medium, then large. And speaking of luck, remember?—?this

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of “impact investing,” a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental impact.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 5, 2018

HeatGenie, an Austin-based startup with an innovative way to heat up beverage cans, has raised $5.9 The company, founded in 2007, has previously raised $3.6 million of a $6.7 million round of funding, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. million, according to CrunchBase.

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Austin Startup

JULY 2, 2021

The Austin-based recruiting and HR software company saves up to six hours a week, or 25 days a year, by using the new product. About CareerPlug Since 2007 CareerPlug has worked to make hiring easier for over 12,000 growing companies in the U.S. Visit www.chargify.com to learn more about Chargify Business Intelligence. and Canada.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

million through the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF) for Facebook to create a sales and operations office in Austin. The TEF funding is conditioned upon the finalization of a local incentive agreement with the City of Austin. Tags: Announcements austin facebook Press Release. This investment will create 200 jobs and more than $3.1

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Congratulations on your recent move to Austin! December in Austin; yep, you came to the right place. So in case no one else has said it, let me officially welcome you to Austin. Don’t California my Texas,” “Don’t Dallas My Austin,” “Thanks for coming to SXSW. I have yet to meet a person who loves moving.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Austin Meetup. Austin, TX. Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Life360, A Family Networking App With More.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Burlington, and Phoenix.).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Last week, Austin Tech Alliance hosted Sen. Watson is the former mayor of Austin and was elected to the Texas Senate in 2006, where he represents most of Travis County and all of Bastrop County. Austin ISD will continue to send hundreds of millions of local property taxpayer dollars to the state instead of being spent here in Austin.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 9, 2015

By TIM GREEN Reporter with Silicon Hills News Twitter emerged with a splash at South by Southwest in 2007, unleashing an ever-growing barrage of tweets, posts, photos, and other social media interactions. People Pattern, an Austin startup, is fittingly staging its coming out party at this year’s SXSW. Austin People Pattern'

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Black Pixel, founded in 2007, has a roster of Fortune 500 clients which it provides digital product strategy, design, and development services and builds sports, news, and media applications. Hypergiant Space Age Solutions announced Tuesday that it has acquired Seattle-based Black Pixel. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The company proved it was adapting to change when they added free Wi-Fi to all of their pubs, and in 2007 the first wedding was held. It was appointed a distributor of Austin motor vehicles in 1918 and continued its growth by acquiring a number of garages in Lancashire and Cheshire.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2018

Winners in each of 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony at 7 pm Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin, Salon AB. Network with all the finalists from 11 am to 1:30 pm on Monday, March 12, at SXSW Accelerator Demo Day , at the Hilton Austin, Salon C. I attended in 2007.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 3, 2010

Zynga announced today that they’ve acquired Austin-based social game company Challange Games. Challenge Games’ Co-Founder CEO, Andrew Busey, will become Zynga’s general manager and vice president of the Austin studio. Tags: Consumer acquisition austin challenge games zynga. CrunchBase Information. Challenge Games.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 28, 2011

If you’ve been a part of the entrepreneurial scene in Austin at all, you’ve probably been part of a RISE event. In its first year in 2007, RISE held 40 [.]. They keynote speakers have been tremendous, including Roy Spence and Red McCombs. They keynote speakers have been tremendous, including Roy Spence and Red McCombs.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2011

The company is one of the fastest growing in Austin, going from 70 employees in April 2007 to over 600 today. In the “you knew this was coming&# category, Bazaarvoice filed for an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of it’s stock today. The news is being covered by TechCrunch and The Statesman.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

In 2007, I met Rob May for the first time in person at the first SXSW I ever went to. Over and over again, it''s small groups and conversations that I''ve had down in Austin that seem to have the most lasting impact on my business and career--so as the parties get bigger, and flashier, I find myself retreating to smaller enclaves.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 3, 2011

While the number of exits and the capital gained through them were up, these figures still don't match 2007 levels. M&A activity did drop off in the fourth quarter of the year, but overall it was ahead of 2009 as well, with 445 M&As raising $33.9

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. Making Decisions in Context was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The rest will take care of itself.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2020

BP3 has been helping our clients find a faster way to do things since 2007. Robotics (RPA) Brings New Rules to Process Automation was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. rely on BP3. There’s a faster way to do that.?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 11, 2010

Ro retired from Dell in 2007, and previously held roles at Grid and Radio Shack. Tags: Consumer austin csidentity daylight partners. CSIdentity announced that it has added Ro Parra to its Board of Directors. Mr. Parra is a partner and co-founder of Daylight Partners, which is a group of investors who mostly share a background at Dell.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Heather Appleman (AKA, “Red Velvet”) came to us via Austin, Texas to become a mainstay of our Customer Service team. He also speaks Italian and is an accomplished quilter

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

The first Techstars class matriculated in 2007. As a result, as Techstars scales up, its direct local economic benefits– unlike a Microsoft in Seattle, Google in Mountain View, or Dell in Austin – are realized in several locations, not primarily one.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. Doing some research shows that their last round in 2007 was Series F, so this must be Series G. Austin Ventures. So why raise money? CrunchBase Information.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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MARCH 15, 2011

Jun 2007 Baylor) Stanford Researcher Neuroscience, postdoc, BS biology from Peking University. in computer science, environmental engineering and middle east studies from Stanford, Austin College and the American University in Cairo. Xu Cui (Ph.D, Mike Dorsey ( MBA/MSE, Jun 2011) B.S.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! - In Austin, popular local conferences like Austin Startup Week hold many of their sessions at coworking spaces around the city. “If you put up walls, there’s no point. Why are people in the same space?”

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I didn''t actually get to meet him in person until SXSW in 2007. Even then, Rob was an optimizer, trying to map the best routes around Austin. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2013

It''s hard to believe that I''ve been involved with the Innotech Beta Summit since 2007. Every year it seems like we move to a larger room, yet each year it is standing room only. This is an incredible showcase for fresh new technology from companies in "Austintonio.". Events beta summit innotech'

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