startup Archive

The first Austin Startup Week is here! Beginning tomorrow and continuing for the balance of the week, a number of startup-related events will take place around the city. I will be at most of the events representing CloudContacts and will have my camcorder so hit me up for an interview for your startup.

You can find a full list of the Austin Startup Week events on the calendar and below are some of the events to check out:

• ATX Startup Crawl – Wednesday – check out the offices of a bunch of downtown Austin startups
• Capital Factory Demo Day – Wednesday – event is sold out but you can watch a livestream, several keynotes plus launch demos from the Capital Factory incubator and a number of Austin startup demos in the afternoon
• OpenCoffee – Thursday – casual gathering of folks discussing tech topics
• StartupBazaar – Thursday – at City Hall – startups will demo their services (I am trying to get CloudContacts in to demo) and free startup coaching offered
• Austin Tech Happy Hour – Thursday evening – I attended this once before (the one day that it flurried!) and it was a great event – very casual, bar atmosphere, no demos just conversation
• I Can Haz Mobile and Gaming – Friday – half-day mini-conference with speakers on the topics of gaming and mobile
• API Hackday ATX – Saturday – all day hackathon with some groovy prizes

Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates on a day to remember, September 11th.

• Updated sales history and sharing options – SmugMug
• Zazzle launches custom photo cards – Zazzle
• What happens when Apple features your iPhone app – Return7
• AlphaLab now accepting applications – AlphaLab
• New NYC-based startup Name Candy launches – Name Candy
• NYC-based Collecta launches their API – Collecta
• Video interview of the day – Hilary DeCesare from Girl Ambition

Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates for September 10th. Yesterday a blogger wondered why I make these link posts — the answer is simple – to help startups get visibility. These posts don’t drive any real traffic but are important for the startup ecosystem. I refuse to write multiple posts a day about FourSquare and/or Twitter and would rather give some links to a variety of startups each day from across the world. If just one CN reader checks out a new startup each day then these posts are doing their job.

• URLShort is back – Mavrev
• Tonido launches a screensharing application – Tonido
• Want to Sell Your Product? Give it Away for Free – Doodlekit
• TalentDrive and harQen Team Up to Bring Recruiting Industry First Combined Sourcing and Telephone Interview Technology – TalentDrive
• Technorati changes how they calculate links for “authority” (Mashable moves into 3rd place right behind Techcrunch) - Technorati
• A look at the Y Combinator experience – Defmacro
• Job of the day – Front-End Engineer at Socialcast

Here are the startup and entrepreneurial updates for September 9, 2009.

• Buxfer adds a whole bunch of new updates including multiple currencies and budget editing – Buxfer
• New playlist (looks really slick) and a bunch of new badges released – SlideShare
• Survs collaborative tool launches a new pricing model – Survs
• 5 tips for boosting scheduling success – Tungle
• Voice transcription is live – Task.fm
• Why anonymized data really isn’t – Ars Technica
• Pubsubhubsubdubbbubmub vs. RssCloud – Grack
• Tweetdeck gets more non-tweety with MySpace and a directory of ‘deckers – Louis Gray

Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates – if you are in the U.S., happy Labor Day (go shop and eat some hot dogs).

• New Windows Mobile version released – Fring
• Twtpoll launches sponsorship options – Twtapps
• Diningverse hits 10,000 local restaurants – Diningverse
• Why I’m done making desktop apps – MicroISV
• Toyota creates the first thought-controlled wheelchair – The Christian Science Monitor
• Technorati now some sort of ad and blogger network – Inquisitr, Venture Chronicles

Here are today’s startup and entrepreneurial updates – enjoy!

• NYC Update: Producteev launches social task management – ReadWriteWeb
• Xing updates company profiles and applications – Xing
• Acquia now offers hosting – Acquia
• Skyfire mobile browser picks up another $5 million – Skyfire (review)
• Zazzle gets it’s sorting and browing on – Zazzle
• Get dressed up with new clothes – Vivaty
• More sites get glued – AdaptiveBlue
• Job of the day: Sr software development engineer at Amazon

Here are today’s startup and today’s startup and etntrepreneurial Updates – enjoy!

• Why investing in social media pays off -  WAYN
• The new Diary.com goes live today – Diary.com
• FriendBinder goes live – FriendBinder
• Facebook Fund graduation day – ReadWriteWeb
• Joel Spolsky’s talk at Business of Software 2008 on being number one (video) – Business of Software
• The story of a startup – Ctrl-Alt-Del
• Getting down to business on the social web – ClickZ
• Job of the day – Subway is looking for a Director of Marketing