Back in the 1990s my father told me to move to the Valley if I wanted to raise money. I proved him wrong, but he was right. It would have been a LOT easier to raise money for my startup in San Francisco. Ryan Roberts, my very own startup lawyer, points to a great paper [...]
When I was in my twenties my biggest goals were to take my company public and get on the cover of Fortune. I wouldn’t mind getting some free exposure from Fortune (assuming it would help one of my ventures), but you couldn’t pay me to take my business public. My father has been CEO of [...]
Lately I have spent a lot of time talking to venture capital firms about making an investment in ShopSavvy. Several weeks ago I sat down at lunch with one firm and they asked me what it would take to get a deal done. I think they might have been asking me what sort of pre-money [...]
Once upon a time an aspiring small businessperson needed some money to start his business. Through a circuitous route he found himself in front of the owner of some capital.
After explaining his plight, the small businessperson asked the capitalist for a loan. The capitalist replied, While I find your concept intriguing, there is [...]
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 [...]
