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“With such convergence happening with technology and healthcare, especially right here in Austin, and especially with mobile technology, it is great to see a company like Filament Labs be recognized,” said C. Enrique Ortiz, organizer of Mobile Monday Austin. At the recently completed Texas Wireless Summit (TWS), eight Austin-area startups presented and competed in the … Read more
The 11th annual Texas Wireless Summit (Oct 18, 2013) continues the tradition of providing a forum for industry leaders and academics to discuss emerging technologies and business models that will shape the industry over the upcoming two to three years. As in previous years, we are running the Mobile Monday Austin App Showcase at the … Read more
This Friday October 26, 2012 is the Texas Wireless Summit. And as part of the event we are having the annual Mobile Monday Austin Startup Showcase. (Also, don’t forget that on Oct 22 we are having our regular Mobile Monday Austin event at Capital Factory — topic: Mobile & Cloud.) This year we are having … Read more
Christopher Calnan of the Austin Business Journal wrote a piece titled VC: Silicon Valley vs. Austin, on the opinions that came out from this month’s CEO Summit in Austin. The following snippet from the article summarizes very well why Silicon Valley is (and will remain) ahead of Austin: “Bay Area is more conducive to startups … Read more
This month of May 2011 has been a great month with respect to the Austin mobile scene. Below is a summary of just the events that I help organize or contribute to somehow: Mobile Monday Austin, Android Dev Austin, Google IO Extended Austin, IEEE Austin Chapter. And there are other mobile-related events as well that … Read more
Steve Guengerich has been putting together a very nice idea, mapping the Austin mobile scene; excellent! Steve is managing director of BroadBrush Ventures and a member of the founding management team of Appconomy. I met Steve the other day for the first time even though we both have been in Austin for a long time. … Read more
As part of the ReadWriteStart series titled Never Mind the Valley, Chris Cameron of the ReadWriteWeb wrote a very nice piece about the Austin startup and tech scene. See Never Mind the Valley: Here’s Austin. Thanks Chris for covering Austin and for the great job with the article… ceo
Via Michael Yuan’s blog: Austin TX is the #3 best city for jobs in America. ceo
Photo: Statue of “Stevie” Ray Vaughan, Austin musician — Source UT According to an article in the Austin Business Journal (that refers to a study co-sponsored by Monster.com), Austin Texas is the sixth most desirable city for relocation out of more than 30 cities examined in the United States. “San Diego, San Francisco and New … Read more
According to a Scarborough Research report, Austin, TX (the city where I live) is the top blogging city (in the U.S.): Austin, TX, Portland, OR, San Francisco and Seattle are the top markets for people who read or contributed to blogs. “Not surprisingly, the cities that rank highly for bloggers are also prominent Internet-usage markets. … Read more