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 [...]

Bradley Joyce broke the news that Gabriella Draney’s ‘Tech Wildcatters’ (Dallas area incubator for startups) finally got off the ground announcing their inaugural class of startups including:

Mobestream Media
CollegeJobConnect
The Brand Protection Agency
Concepta Systems
Image Vision Labs

One day later Lauren Warthan from Porter Novelli let me know that the Capital Factory (Austin area incubator for startups) had [...]

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 [...]

Over the years I have compiled a list of angel investors and I figured that I would share that list with you. Before you pick up the phone or send an email I would spend a few minutes reading up on how and why angels invest in early stage companies. Dana Mattioli from the Wall [...]

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 [...]

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 times [...]

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 [...]