Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Over this fourth of July weekend it is important to remember how a simple declaration started a revolution and allowed us to create our great republic. If you haven’t read the Declaration of Independence in a while, take a minute and read the words one more time. When in the Course of human events it becomes [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Two years ago Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist and Yang Lu wrote a paper called “Whom you know matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance.“ This may seem obvious, but their research is very interesting. Erick Schonfeld’s piece today titled, “The Top 100 Networked Venture Capitalist” explores the paper’s findings. He notes the top ten VCs [...]...
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Join us for the Startup Happy Hour on July 6th (the first Monday after the long weekend). RSVP here: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3012068/
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Today marriage seems like a fleeting institution, between 30% and 60% of married people will be unfaithful during their marriage. Just yesterday Mark Sanford, the governor of South Carolina, confessed his own adultery in a twenty minute act of self assassination. Bill Clinton eventually admitted his own infidelity and like it or not it has [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
First, lets dispel the myth that non-compete agreements in Texas are invalid - it isn’t true. Employees explain to me time and time again that “Non-compete agreements are not worth the paper they are written on here in Texas.” The Texas Supreme Court disagrees, since 2006 ruling that non-compete agreements ARE enforceable. I believe the [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
This Friday Facebook Developer Garage makes its way back to Dallas, this time powered by Intel. Come connect with fellow developers at the Crescent Hotel on Friday, June 26th with a party to follow at CoHabitat . The Garage will feature two tracks: -Developing for Platform/Connect -Marketing/Business Opportunities Covering: -OpenStream API -Connect -Connect for iPhone -Social Metrics -App Verification...
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/20/2009
It isn’t too hard to understand why much of the rest of the world resents America - they resent our wealth. For example, North Korea announced they would be firing a ballistic missle toward Hawaii next month. To answer this threat our military simply floated in a MASSIVE sea based x-band radar system (SBX) into [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/19/2009
Our friend Vahid Bahzadi is organizing a Democracy Rally in support of the Iranian people. The event will be next Tuesday between 1-3PM at Dallas City Hall. If you want to volunteer to help just ping Vahid at Vahid.Behzadi@CyberCoders.com or Shawn Amoei at rxa2929@gmail.com. We are planning to attend. If you can join us, wear a [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/18/2009
Earlier today, Obama’s team rolled out an 85-page document that lays out his plan to regulate the private equity and venture capital businesses. The plan creates three new agencies to oversee hedge funds, private equity funds and venture capital firms. Of course this drives me nuts. The reasons for our current situation are largely related [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Dave Rutledge from Woot (i.e. the guy that hasn’t returned my calls over the past year) found a number of bugs in the iPhone 3.0 release. Wow, that was fast. Anyway here they are: Multimedia messaging does not support sculpture, macrame, or interpretive dance. Voice memo recordings totally don’t sound like me. I don’t sound like that, [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
We’ve known Andres and Andy with Traxo for a few years now. In fact they were the first company to cowork at the Big in Japan offices back in July. Since that time a lot of exciting stuff has happened with their team. Traxo (www.traxo.com) is a travel service that allows users to automatically collect their [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/15/2009
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I have had little else on my mind these past few days. When I was a senior in High School I watched with millions of other Americans as Chinese students stood up for freedom in June 1989. Their revolution was short lived, but it made quite an impact on [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Jason Fried’s recent talk at Big Omaha caught the attention of David Cohen (my partner in SpringStage). In his talk, Jason railed against the recently popular meme among entrepreneurs, “Fail Early, Fail Often!“ He suggests, ‘this industries obsession with failure has got to stop.‘ Check out the video here: David suggests that Jason might be offering [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Our friend Babar Bhatti asked us to mention the upcoming cloud event next Tuesday. The MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth and Technology Review present an exclusive program on Cloud Computing. If you’re a senior level manager of a company with 100+ employees, this evening of networking followed by an expert panel moderated by Technology Review editor Jason [...]
Texas Startup Blog (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
This Friday, 6/12/2009 there will be a charity poker tournament benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas at the ‘W’ Hotel in Victory Park. The 4th Annual Texas Hold’em tournament is a signature event for Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas where individuals compete to out-smart, out-bet and out-play fellow players to secure [...]
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