Looking to connect with other high tech entrepreneurs in Dallas? You might want to check out the Startup Happy Hour event this Thursday at 5PM. Join the MeetUp Group and RSVP Here: http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-Startup-Happy-Hour/events/46716632/ It’s time to get the happy hour rolling again! We’re happy to announce that our guest speaker will be Preetish Nijhawan, Managing [...]
My proposal for Marine Corps Toys for Tots Program
I have always appreciated the Marine Toys for Tots program each year. This afternoon I was wondering how we (i.e. ShopSavvy) might be able to leverage our platform to help collect toys in October, November and December and distribute them as Christmas gifts to needy children around the country. I had an idea. What if [...]
Startup Happy Hour Reminder
Just a quick reminder that this month’s startup happy hour is on Thursday, March 31st 2011. Looks like we are going to schedule a speaker, RSVP on the Meetup Page and check back for details. See you there.
Capital Factory Demo Day!
Today is Demo Day at Austin’s Capital Factory. The event runs through 3PM and features five startups including: Hurricane Party – a location-based social networking application that helps users create, manage and discover events that are relevant to them. RecycleMatch – an online market for waste and recyclables that helps companies make waste a resource. [...]
DFW Un-Plugged
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 all of [...]
Small Startup Happy Hour Tonight @ CoHabitat
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.
Sport the Startup Happy Hour 2.0 Badge
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 [...]
Dallas TechFest, Sign Up Now!
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, [...]
SevenLayer – Voice in the Cloud
SevenLayer – Intelligence Voice Cloud Or at least that is what the folks atSevenLayer think. SevenLayer is latest company to be incubated inArchitel Labs. Headed by Jeff Rothell, the company delivers cloud based voice applications to small and medium sized companies. Prior to co-founding Sevenlayer, Jeff built two multi-million dollar telecommunication companies. From 1999 to [...]
Startup Happy Hour 2.0
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 [...]