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 [...]

Once again it is time for the startup happy hour. Blake from CoHabitat has agreed to host the happy hour at their facility this month. Starting in October we will be hosting the event at our new facility in Campbell Centre. The Dallas Startup Happy Hour is the talk of the startup community in Dallas. [...]

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 [...]

If you have kids and are like me you take lots of photos of them (my flickr account has more than 14,000 photos – most of them of Ethan and Erin). The dirty little secret is that the photos you see are the best ones. Today we snap LOTS of photos since there is not [...]

Oh and so is Nick Denton. I have been meaning to write this post for a while. If you are like me you have been following the ‘lost iPhone prototype saga‘ in the news. From the very first reports I had a feeling that Jason and the staff at Gawker Media had screwed up by [...]

We are looking for a new permanent home for the Dallas Startup Happy Hour (sponsored by Architel), but we have found a great location for this Monday’s event. The folks at CoHabitat have graciously offered to allow us to host the happy hour at their facility. The Dallas Startup Happy Hour is the talk of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]