Texas Startup

Startup Camp Austin (August 2nd) (Texas Startup Blog)

Scott Whigham asked me to take a look at Startup Camp Austin and write about it here. From the wiki: “In the spirit of BarCamp and DemoCamp, StartupCampAustin is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on topics relevant to Startup Companies. At StartupCampAustin there are no “attendees,” since everyone participates in some manner: presenting, [...] Source : Texas Startup Blog (subscribe) Explore : Technology, Texas Startup

ServiceGuy is live in Miami! (Texas Startup Blog)

Randy and Mike are keeping our goal of adding one new city to ServiceGuy per week by adding Miami. We are now offering contractor referrals in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Washington DC and Phoenix. Now, please remember it is going to [...]

SocialThing 2.0

SocialThing, a Boulder, Colorado TechStars startup that aggregates all your online social updates into one slick lifestream, launched into private beta this past March in Austin, Texas at the South By Southwest Interactive event. I got a chance to get a preview of the product the week before as SocialThing showed off its stuff at TECH cocktail Boulder. I was impressed and have been using it online and via the iPhone version ever since. Just a few weeks ago, SocialThing rolled out version 2.0 of ...

Uranium Resources reports startup delay in Texas

Uranium Resources Inc., which develops and mines uranium properties to make nuclear energy, on Monday reported a delay in the startup of a South Texas project.

Craigslist isn?t as profitable as Craig thought. . . (Texas Startup Blog)

... caused by spammers or his site is going to hell. Don’t worry, even with 125 people working at Craigslist the company is still obscenely profitable. Start spending some of those profit dollars and fix Craigslist. Note: I am a huge fan of Craigslist and all of our businesses use it for hiring and sales. Source : Texas Startup Blog (subscribe) Explore : Texas Startup

Harvey Korman dies 4 months after aneurysm

Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in "Blazing Saddles," died Thursday. He was 81. TV Emmy award winner, Harvey Korman, left, and Tim Conwaypose together after performing at University of Texas at Tyler in this 2004 photo. Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to "The Carol Burnett Show" a...

Doctors Using Pig Powder to Regrow a Soldier's Finger [Science]

While the report of pig bladder powder growing back a man's finger might have been a wee bit exaggerated and/or fabricated, the science behind it is sound. In fact, doctors in Texas are using a pig-based powder, dubbed "Pixie Dust," to try to grow back a soldier's finger. They aren't sure how well it'll work and are consistently monitoring it, but in theory the powder tricks dormant stem cells in the human body into kicking into gear, growing more of whatever body part they're touching. That mea...

Q&A with Matt Malone of Aegis Texas Venture Fund (Texas Startup Blog)

I ran into Matt Malone at an ACG meeting last week and after reviewing his company's website I asked him a few questions via email he has given me permission to reprint here. Aegis from the outside (i.e from their website) appears to be a venture capital firm, but in reality as Matt describes, [...] Source : Texas Startup Blog (subscribe) Explore : Allen, Merrill Lynch, Richardson, Texas, Venture Capital

PSA: Early-phase Start-up Needs Search/Data-Mining Guru

A client of mine is heading a start-up and needs someone to fulfill this position. It's based either in SoCal or Central Texas. Here's the unofficial job description: "Speaking of acquiring images and data, we'd like to engage/hire a very strong search guru -- someone that understands crawling, managing massive quantities of data, websites links, etc. We expect that we'll have to pull a lot of data from various sources, including crawling and connecting with other databases. We'd also like to fi...

Seattle Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima (2), of Japan, delivers the ball to pitcher Erik Bedard after Bedard gave up thre...

AP - Seattle Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima (2), of Japan, delivers the ball to pitcher Erik Bedard after Bedard gave up three runs to the Texas Rangers during the third inning of an MLB baseball game, Monday, May 12, 2008, in Arlington, Texas.