Ideas From SXSW: What You Missed This Weekend
The buspreneurs pitch investors, plus everyone's talking games, incentives, and influencers. Here's the latest from Austin.
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Tips for Building a Cool Business in Austin
Austin is ripe for start-ups. Here's how to tap into the best of local culture.
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A Free Beer With Every Haircut
Birds Barbershop has tapped into the energy of Austin, Texas, to build a $2 million business with four locations in just three years.
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Spring Break for Geeks
South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) is a technology conference here... Read more
Finally, a Useful Bluetooth Headset
I'd tried bluetooth headsets and earbuds over the years, always with disappointing results. Nobody could hear me, it was hard to connect it to my ph... Read more
How to get married on the net...
Being a hopeless romantic, I handed my girlfriend (now wife) a Subway sandwich and a diamond ring when she'd just gotten out of the shower. It w... Read more
Postponing IT Projects While Money is Tight
Gartner continues to predict drops in IT spending for this year, yet they have also found, to their surprise, that Read more
Smaller Firms Vulnerable to Fraud
Check tampering and other schemes snatch $200,000 from small-business coffers every year, experts say. Read more
My Place: Mark McGarrah's Modern Cliff House
The co-founder of an Austin ad agency salvaged pine beams from his office space to brighten his kitchen. Read more
Hiring online with Monster, Dice etc.
My company, Journyx , is looking for a marketing person and ... Read more
When The Price Isn't Right
I got a great little tip this week from my friend, Reuben Swartz, President of Mimiran based in Austin, TX. Reuben's company develops and sells pr... Read more
College Interns: Brilliant and Cheap
Here in Austin we have the luxury of proximity to the University of Texas (UT). From this well of intellect we continually draw for ideas a... Read more
One Way to Motivate Salespeople
In January I told my salespeople if they exceeded their quota by 33% I'd dye my hair the color of their choice. It was an incredible long shot. A totally s... Read more
A novel marketing approach
A friend of mine running a small software firm here in Austin recently made a bold statement: Everyone's sick of marketing. They'r... Read more
Bluetooth Headset for Your Convertible
I live in Austin, TX which means that it's convertible weather all the time except in the middle of the day in the summer, when it's about 3000 degrees an... Read more
A Night At The Movies
At a time when most theater owners can't pry people away from their VCRs, Charlie Chick has got them driving 40 minutes for the flicks. Read more
The Isosceles Of Texas Is Upon Us
The country's hottest new growth belt is called the Texas Triangle, and Austin is the smart little city at its center. Read more
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Remember that movie about how Jobs and Gates took over the world? You can now watch... Read more
Finding the Next Big Thing at SXSW
SXSW Interactive served as the launching point for Twitter and Foursquare. Here are three intriguing start-ups vying to make their mark in Austin this year. Read more
The Cost of Starting Up a Retail Shop
Starting a retail business isn't cheap. Here, Sharon Munroe shares how much it cost her to open a consignment store in Austin. Read more
Tweet from @anywhere
Twitter is branching out by enabling users to tweet from other websites inc... Read more
The Gaming Level to Come
In the past couple of years, we've seen the boom of the social network and how it's affected us. Facebook proved to be incredibly profitable for Mar... Read more
7 Tips for Networking at SXSW
It takes more than business cards to make meaningful connections at SXSW. We asked experts for their tips on navigating the social side of Austin. Read more
The Knockout Lesson
A CEO discusses the lessons she learned in her boxing career and how she applies them to her business. Read more
Annoying Facebookers
CNN Technology just published an article on the 12 most annoying type... Read more
Crowd-Funding Websites Eye Shift
The SEC reviews rules that ban social network sites from facilitating equity investments, Gilt is valued at $1 billion, and the rest of today's news. Read more
Science Tells Us Which Online Ads Work
A new Disney research lab here in Austin, Texas just performed a study on co... Read more
By The Numbers: A Good Day At The Arbor
TICKETS This Saturday, July 19, was the biggest-grossing day in the history of the Arbor Cinema Four, in Austin, Tex. How much profit it generated ... Read more
Antivirus Hardware
Hardware that attempts to prevent unauthorized computer use and virus contamination. Read more
Boomtowns '07
Riverside, Provo, McAllen, Sarasota… You may be surprised by the places that top our list of the hottest cities for entrepreneurs. Read more
Web-based Voice Mail
Did you know that you can manage your voice mail messages online? Not only that, but some services will allow you to get the messages automatically ... Read more
Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year
A list of 1992's Regional Entrepreneurs of the Year. Read more
The 9-to-5 Start-up
Chip Wolfe, founder of Sterling Information Group, Inc., wanted his company to adhere to a 40-hour work-week for all employees. Can a fast-growing start-up t... Read more
Tech = Memory Loss?
I recently wrote about a man who is using technology to catalog and file every s... Read more
Detecting Earthquakes with your laptop?
IF YOU drop your laptop computer, a chip built into it will sense the acceleration and protect the delicate moving parts of its hard disk before it hits t... Read more
Cyborg Eyes
CNN reports that "scientists, eye surgeons, professors a... Read more
Next Time You’re Stuck in the Storm
It seems current news stories spill into our social networks. I'm guessing that, over the holidays, many of you read multiple Facebook statuses and ... Read more
It's Time For Fireworks!
July 4th is just around the corner and - not to rain on your pary - but there are folks who are starting to show concerns about how to make those py... Read more
LinkedIn Asks for Free Services
LinkedIn recently asked thousands of its members to volunteer ... Read more
Robots in Medicine
According to ... Read more
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