Last month my father’s old boss and billionaire, Paul Allen, announced he was going to give away the majority of his $13.5 billion net worth to charity. Kudos for Paul! When Paul and Bill co-founded Microsoft I wonder if they had any idea how big an impact their company and the resulting wealth would have [...]

Just last week I wrote a post titled, “Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit?” where I explain how D&B explained to other businesses that our company had a “High risk of severe financial stress of the next 12 months”. Here is what our potential customers saw:

This week, after I wrote the post, D&B has ‘updated’ [...]

Have you ever heard of a company called Dun & Bradstreet? They are ’sort’ of like Experian for businesses – supposedly helping their subscribers to make credit decisions about suppliers. Recently a potential client of one of our company’s ran a D&B report on our company. The score came back very low and the company [...]

Austin-based Capital Factory accelerator program – their second annual Demo Day is coming up on Wednesday, September 8th As the culmination of a ten-week technology accelerator program this summer, Capital Factory’s Demo Day will provide the five portfolio start-ups with the opportunity to launch their business concept to the world and specifically, to attending investors, [...]

I’ll have to admit I am guilty of this one. When I raised my first round for my first startup I immediately bought a Porsche. I used my own money, but it sent the wrong message to my wife, investors, partners, employees, customers and vendors. It is hard to negotiate salary with prospective employees when [...]

Small startup happy hour at CoHabitat tonight at 6PM http://cot.ag/aesQpi Our big startup happy hour event is in Oct: http://bit.ly/anRLzT.

Just a quick note about the Big in Japan team’s latest milestone. Yesterday they released the iOS4 compatible barcode scanner SDK for developers. If you are a developer who has already used our SDK in your app to scan barcodes or you are a developer thinking about using our SDK [...]

Everyone in Dallas seems to be building a mobile application and lots of these people call or email me to share their ideas with me. More than a few of these entrepreneurs ask me to sign an NDA before they are willing to ask for my feedback and/or advice. The quick answer is that I [...]

This afternoon I joined a packed house at the Magnolia theater to witness the first Tech Wildcatters class graduate. First, I was struck by how many people showed up. Literally a who’s who of the Dallas entrepreneurial scene – oh and the scene is a lot bigger than it was two years ago. Gabriella really [...]