We thought it might make sense to create a distinct home for our free barcode scanning libraries and thought http://www.freebarcodescanner.com would work. If you need a scanning library for your mobile app and you don’t have a lot of money, consider using our free library. We use it for [...]
We have been trying to figure out how to best accommodate our recent growth. Our old NOC could only seat 12 engineers at a time and was getting a little too loud. Even with our engineers in the field working on projects and installations we need more seats during our peak support hours. After several [...]
David Cohen has a great post on his blog titled “You have Acquisition interest – now what?” Ironically, we have been approached by a number of companies interested in talking to us about selling ShopSavvy. Only recently did I start taking this ‘interest’ seriously. To be honest, only after reviewing David’s post did I realize I could [...]
In 2008 Rylan Barnes introduced himself to me at one of our startup happy hour events. He had a great idea for a comparison shopping application he called GoCart. The idea was simple, turn your cell phone into a barcode scanner. Shortly after we teamed up the application won Google’s Android Developer Challenge and became [...]
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 [...]
