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 [...]

My name is Alexander Muse and I am the author of the Startup Muse. More than a decade ago I figured out that I was better at starting businesses than finishing them. Since then I have raised and lost millions of dollars from investors. The Startup Muse is my attempt to share my experiences, both good and bad, with entrepreneurs.

Over the past five years I have been asked to speak on four continents on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to mobile application development. For example, last year I was invited to speak in the French Senate in Paris about mobile technology and the year before I spoke to more than one hundred aspiring Indian entrepreneurs in Bangalore, India.

Over the past decade I have help start several businesses ranging from a reality television series to a consumer finance company. It is worth noting that I am not actively seeking new investments. My current businesses include Architel, ServiceGuy, Big in Japan, ShopSavvy, Whitebox, MotorSport Ranch, SpringStage and SevenLayer.

“It’s management, management, management.” That’s the phrase that many investors will cite when asked what is the most important element that they evaluate when considering an investment in a company. Variations on that theme include, “I bet on the jockey.” “I’ll take an A management team with a B idea over a B team with [...]

I have been talking about Microformats for more than a year.  The movement is exciting and if our experience with hResume is any indication, their use and popularity is growing.  I suspect that Microsoft’s support will increase the rate of growth exponentially. When we first launched the hResume plugin it was downloaded more than 10,000 [...]

Great thought from my favorite gadget blog: Make. If you can’t open it, you don’t own it: Here’s our Maker’s Bill of Rights to accessible, extensive, and repairable hardware… Something to carry around when you’re shopping this year and figuring out what to buy (we are included a little print out of this with our [...]

Periodically people ask me which blogs I read so I decided to start doing little profiles on the bloggers I respect and read (well I don’t respect all of the people I read, but don’t tell anyone). Rob is a lawyer from Toronto.  Visit his blog here.  His bio from his site: I’m a lawyer [...]

Periodically people ask me which blogs I read so I decided to start doing little profiles on the bloggers I respect and read (well I don’t respect all of the people I read, but don’t tell anyone). Mathew Ingram is a tech writer for the The Globe and Mail in Toronto.  Check out his blog [...]