Are you a coder, developer or a hacker? There is a an angel group made up of self described hackers designed for you. The group is called Hacker Angels and includes Going Inc. founder and current AOL executive Roy Rodenstein, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Duck Duck Go’s Gabriel Weinberg, Hotornot’s Jim Young, and Punchfork founder [...]
Bradley Joyce broke the news that Gabriella Draney’s ‘Tech Wildcatters’ (Dallas area incubator for startups) finally got off the ground announcing their inaugural class of startups including:
Mobestream Media
CollegeJobConnect
The Brand Protection Agency
Concepta Systems
Image Vision Labs
One day later Lauren Warthan from Porter Novelli let me know that the Capital Factory (Austin area incubator for startups) had [...]
Over the years I have compiled a list of angel investors and I figured that I would share that list with you. Before you pick up the phone or send an email I would spend a few minutes reading up on how and why angels invest in early stage companies. Dana Mattioli from the Wall [...]
Marianne Hudson, the Executive Director of the Angel Capital Association sent me this letter and I thought it was worth sharing:
Sen. Chris Dodd released his Financial Reform bill last week. To say that the behemoth bill has scary things in it for angel investors – and the entrepreneurs you in invest in – is an [...]
Mike left Texas to become a ’super angel’ five years ago and today he has decided to go ‘Pro’ forming Floodgate. He has added Ann Miura-Ko to his team and plans offer a startups a fundraising model that ‘bridges the gap between initial seed money raised from traditional “Angel” investors and the much larger investments [...]
I got an invitation to attend an event called DFW Unplugged. Details from the Eventbrite site:
DFW is full of some of the most innovative and creative individuals and the most amazing ideas. Come celebrate those people and ideas as we hear from those who are making DFW more vibrant and creative for [...]
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.
I just posted the Startup Happy Hour 2.0 badge over on the Big in Japan blog. If you are a sponsor it might make sense to put the badge on your website/blog (I have asked Jose to add it here). If you haven’t joined the group, go ahead and join now. Our first ‘new’ meeting [...]
Bradley Joyce has the scoop on the Dallas TechFest. The popular event hosts more than 400 developers here in Big D on July 30th at the University of Texas at Dallas. The event is sponsored by Microsoft.
Sessions include: Silverlight, HTML 5, MVVM, TDD, MonoTouch for iPhone, ASP.NET, TypeMock, Clojure, Java, Zend Framework, PHP, API, MySQL, [...]
More than two years ago we decided to start hosting a regular startup-focused happy hour for the North Texas area. More 2,500 local entrepreneurs have joined us for some beer and fellowship. The newspaper wrote about the event and lots of new companies have been formed from the relationships created at the event – for [...]
David Wallace has created the Dallas Software Startup Reading Group and he even invited me to join. The reading group is dedicated to the study of software startup books. They meet on the second Sunday of every month at 4 PM to discuss the selected reading material. For those who choose to do so following [...]
