Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
You might have noticed I haven’t been blogging for a few days. Brad (WhiteBox) and I have been entertaining our kids in Washington DC. Our trip preceeds the release of WhiteForm 1.0 (more on that next week).
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
People have been asking me why. Why am I starting a angel/entrepreneur group? Why am I sponsoring the startup happy hours? Why am I offering free coworking space? Why? Because I wasn’t satisfied with a) the startup culture in Dallas, b) the current angel investment group models, c) the lack of coworking space in Dallas [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The economy is in a terrible situation. The dollar is down, inflation is up, home values are down and the credit market is tight. Sort of the perfect storm. The biggest problem is uncertainty. No one knows what is going to happen. You might think it is a bad time to strike out on your [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
When I was in my twenties I had this secret (not so secret) dream of being the CEO of a publicly traded company. I imagined standing on the floor of the NASDAQ ringing the opening bell as I took my idea from paper to reality. I almost did, but that is a story for another [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Not that it is a huge deal, but I thought I would point out that Amazon’s S3 system seems to be down. We use S3 for a few applications as well as our backup, backup system. Here is more about the outage from CenterNetworks.
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Paul Graham has listed the sort of startups he wants to fund through Y Combinator. The list includes, well, about everything I could even think of. What did he miss? A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Simplified browsing. New news. Outsourced IT. Enterprise software 2.0. More variants of CRM. Something your company needs that doesn’t exist. Dating. Photo/video [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Are you interested in connecting with the local startup community? We are working to build a vibrant startup community here in Dallas every bit as interesting and dynamic as San Francisco, Boulder, Boston or Austin. The first step is engagement. The first Dallas ’startup happy hour’ went so well we decided to make it a regular [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I thought it might be helpful to point out how this website is organized (of course David Cohen is going to change it soon). The homepage http://www.texasstartupblog.com is set up like a magazine or newspaper website. My latest ’startup’ story is in the upper lefthand corner of the page. Below that are a few videos [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I thought it might be smart to point to interesting posts I found on the other SpringStage startup blogs. Ingrid from the Caribbean Startup Blog has an interesting Q&A with Dwayne Black, the founder of Jampersonals.com, the largest Jamaican online dating site. Richard Stump from the Kentucky Startup Blog has a video from Matt Beck [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
David Cohen of the Colorado Startup Blog has a post titled, “Blast from earFeeders past” where he talks about his ‘little side project’ called earFeeder. Neat little application (acquired by SonicSwap a couple of months after he launched it) you can learn more about it in this facebook video. The irony in the project, for [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
I was an undergrad at the University of Texas during the first Gulf War and I decided that I would enlist in the United States Marine Corps (MCRD San Diego, MOS 0331). Wow, what was I thinking. Perhaps the most amazing experience of my life, an experience I think any young man (and certain women) [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
We are launching a ’startup ustream channel’ and to get prepared I have been watching live shows from folks on the system. These two guys: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-rhettandlinkast-live are awesome. Basically, they call people who have Craigslist ads and pretend not to understand what the folks are selling. It is perfectly hilarious (well for the price anyway).
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
I wrote about my idea for an Angel/Entrepreneur Group in Dallas a couple of weeks ago. Things have progressed and I am in the process of forming a committee to organize the group. Committee Members include: Alexander Muse - Entrepreneur (vc backed) Brad Merritt - Entrepreneur (bootstrapped) Charlie Humphreyson - Angel (experienced) Chris Ryan - Angel (starting) Robert Bennett - Angel [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Have I mentioned that I get more than my fair share of business plans and executive summaries each day? Recently I got a business plan that caused me to look over my shoulder and ask if I was on candid camera. OMG! It was the craziest thing I had ever read. I can’t share any [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
I pleased to announced we have launched ServiceGuy in Sacramento (FYI launch simply means we are accepting contractors, the numbers won’t go active until we have 10 contractors for a service in a city). If you are a contractor looking for a few extra leads please signup. Randy should be contacting various providers directly over [...]
