Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Okay, I convinced the development team to STOP working on ShopSavvy for the iPhone and submit it to the iTunes app store. We demo’d ShopSavvy for the iPhone at the PayPal Innovate Conference and EVERYONE seemed to love it. While we wait for Apple to approve the app we decided we would allow [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
TechCrunch has a pretty extensive story on our iPhone development country club concept in a post titled, “Big in Japan Has a Massive Goal.“ The story began this summer when Adam Majewski brought us the idea. What if we created a development shop 50% owned by the developers who did the work? Over the course [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
In early October I noticed that the Twitter API was posting updates to my Twitter account. Someone suggested that I change my password, but on October 12th at 9:15PM my NEW password stopped working. I tried the password recovery system, but I never received an email from Twitter with my new password. My theory is [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The Keiretsu Forum is dropping their ‘pay to pitch’ model for early-stage startups. The angel group claims this change, announced today, is not in response to Jason Calacanis who threatened a shooting war if Keiretsu and other angel groups did not drop their fees by November 16th. I have been railing against angel groups who [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Lots of people ask me, “How do I find angel investors'” I just finished posting on what not to - i.e. paying angel investors to pitch. I don’t have a great answer, but perhaps I can help some of you think about who angels are and as a result perhaps you will be able to [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Jason Calacanis wrote a post titled, “Why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors.“ Jason was recently made aware of angel investor groups that charge startups to pitch and he isn’t the least bit happy about it. I wrote about the problem back in May of 2008 asking, “Should startups pay to pitch…“ [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Are you an Angel investor or want to be one? The North Texas Angel Network in cooperation with the Angel Capital Association is hosting a one day conference titled ‘The Power of Angel Investing”. The event will be held at UT Dallas Executive Education Center from 7:30AM to 7:00PM on November 4th, 2009. Register here.
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Mike Arrington switched from the iPhone to Android earlier this year. Most recently he had a chance to get his hands on Motorola’s new Android phone (launching on Verizon next month) and he is amazed. Here are a few quotes from his blog: “Make no mistake, this is Android’s flagship product, and the first phone that [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
The other day my business partner, Scott Ryan, asked me why I do startup stuff like Barcamp, Pitchcamp, Startup Happy Hour, SpringStage and Startup Weekend. He suggested that these events don’t really make us any money and they take a lot of time. I am a pretty good debater and normally I would come argue [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
I wrote a post titled, “Shame on TechCrunch!” earlier today where I suggested that Robin Wauters‘ applause of Finland’s declaration that “the internet is a right” was a mistake. Jeff Jarvis suggested almost a year ago that, “The internet is a right“. I believe both Robin and Jeff are wrong. I know Jeff read Thomas [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
We are hosting Startup Weekend Dallas the weekend of November 20st - 22nd at our offices in the INFOMART. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. The weekend is a concept of a [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
I had the pleasure of working with a musician named Shannon Barrett for the last two years. He has a band called Farstar and recently released an album called Strange Kids. Shannon ran our help desk for the first year and it wasn’t until he had worked for us for quite a while before we [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Jeremy Parker founded www.voteforart.com, a new startup backed by the large apparel company David Peyser Sportswear (owner of brands such as Weatherproof and MV Sport). Vote For Art is similar to Threadless but with a collegiate focus. They have partnered with six major universities for their main launch in November. The winners’ artwork will be [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Tai Giang asked me to write a post about Cornell University’s video contest for entrepreneurs. Now through November 30, eCornell is inviting entrepreneurs who are developing (or have already developed) a new product or service to submit a 30- to 60-second video that explains or demonstrates their process for understanding what customers want and satisfying [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
According to the Wall Street Journal, the VC community has stopped trying to raise money suggesting the effort is “not worth the brain damage“. The money VCs raise this year is the seed corn for the next five years. VCs are investing in startups with funds raised just after the internet/telecom bubble burst in 2001. [...]
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