Brad’s brother John Feld and Gabriella Draney asked if we would be willing (along with Ryan Roberts) to sponsor ‘Beers with Brad’ this Friday – we happily agreed. We will meet Friday night between 6PM and 8PM at Lotus on 2900 McKinney Ave. You are all invited and as is our custom, the bar will [...]
Alyssa Yancey clued me in that the University of North Texas was accepting applications for their Entrepreneurs Boot Camp. UNT’s Center for Achievement and Lifelong Learning will present this innovative program, known as the Entrepreneurs Boot Camp, in conjunction with the Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship. A team of faculty and graduate students will help participants [...]
Several years ago Scott and I had this bright idea that we should produce a reality series called MotorSport Ranch. We sold the pilot to INHD and the first season to Dish Networks (I think they still air the show in reruns today). I wrote about the process of making the series in a blog [...]
For the past two years Scott and I have hosted the Dallas Startup Happy Hour the first Monday of each month. Starting about five in the evening between twenty and a hundred twenty entrepreneurs get together each month to share a beer, a story and perhaps even a business proposition. The idea was born out [...]
My advice? Answer the door. I am reminded of this old joke:
It rained for days and days and there was a terrific flood. The water rose so high that one man was forced to climb on top of his roof and sat in the rain. As the waters came up higher a man [...]
Some of you may have noticed my blogging on the Texas Startup Blog decline over the past few months. There are a few reasons for this decline. First, we have been working on migrating ALL of the startup blogs (for 30 cities) to a new platform. Second I have have been super busy with ShopSavvy [...]
You might notice a new look for TexasStartupBlog.com and for all of the other SpringStage blogs (there are about 30 now!). We’ve moved to a new platform that consolidates all of these into one site – SpringStage.com!
Internally we call this SpringStage 2.0, and we’ve been working towards it for a while.SpringStage is now a full [...]
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 [...]
