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TechWorking - Tech Networking Event in Dallas
January 26, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Who:
Leadership of North Texas technology companies, community organizations that support technology companies and related stakeholders
What:
A special evening of networking with your technology industry peers. Attendees will have the opportunity to mingle with the various community organizations that support our industry in this region and learn about major initiatives and events in 2010.
Dress is casual. Cocktails [...]
Effective Pitching @ MIT Enterprise Forum DFW
January 25, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Startups
The DFW MIT Enterprise Forum is putting on an Effective Pitching workshop this Thursday for their January event. Here are the details:
As an entrepreneur you have often heard about the elevator pitch. There is more to pitching than 30 second pitches. It is critical for entrepreneurs to sell their ideas and products to customers and investors. Can [...]
Time for 2010
January 22, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Things have been pretty dormant here for the past few months, as I was in Peru. Now that I’m back in the Metroplex, hopefully you will see more activity here as I start to get spooled back up on the DFW startup scene.
Already this year the DFW startup community has a lot to look forward [...]
TheFunded Launches Founder Showcase
December 16, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups, Venture Capital
TheFunded.com launched what they’re calling the Founder Showcase, an opportunity for new startups to get exposure on their website.
From their email:
The overall startup climate is improving, but it’s still too hard for young companies to get exposure. Finding the right investors and getting access to the media is as challenging as it every was. It’s [...]
Just Listen - Powerful Advice for the Startup Founder/CEO
October 10, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
This was an incredible episode of This Week in Startups with special guest Mark Goulston. Definitely worth a watch if your in a leadership/founder position at a startup or hope to be some day!
Startup Legal Docs From TheFunded.com
September 28, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
TheFunded.com continues to serve the best interests on the entrepreneurial community with a set of founder-friendly legal docs…. have a look:
Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs
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TheFunded has produced founder-friendly versions of every legal document necessary to launch a new startup. These documents were carefully written from scratch to keep founders in control of [...]
Startup Happy Hour Today!
September 24, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour
Thursday September 24, 2009 at 5:30pm
T&P Tavern and Grill221 W Lancaster Ave
Fort Worth, Texas 76102 Get Directions
Please RSVP HERE
The SpringStage Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour is all about bringing the local entrepreneurial community together and [...]
TweetSaver.com releases auto-tagging feature AND free 7 day trials
September 18, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
From the TweetSaver blog:
New Feature: Auto-tagged tweets!
We’re happy to announce that we’ve implemented a handy new auto-tagging feature that is live now on TweetSaver!
As a convenience for our users, we’ve auto-tagged all of your tweets that contain a hashtag. When you log in, you should see the following on the right side of your screen:
As [...]
Next FW Startup Happy Hour planned for 9/24 @ T&P Tavern and Grill
September 18, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Usually we host this event on the 3rd Monday of every month. However, due to my crazy schedule this next one will be held on Thursday, Sept. 24th AT A NEW LOCATION!!!!
Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour
Thursday September 24, 2009 at [...]
TweetSaver.com Launched
September 1, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startup Profiles, Startups
I haven’t posted much recently because I’ve been head down working on getting a new app out the door. I’m happy to announce that we (Squeejee) have launch TweetSaver.com!
TweetSaver is a service that allows Twitter users to back up, tag, search and share their tweets quickly and easily. Currently, search.twitter.com only allows people to search [...]
DFW Startup Blogs Rank in Top 100 Startup Blogs
August 20, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Not exactly how useful or meaningful this is but I thought it was neat. According to the invesp.com blog rank engine, there are 3 local blogs that rank in the top 100 blogs in the startup category.
They are:
The Texas Startup Blog at #11
The Startup Lawyer at #20
and yours truly, The Fort Worth Startup Blog at [...]
Advice on Angel Funding
August 19, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
I’ve had a few conversations with different folks recently about funding/money issues and it reminded me of this great blog post I read from Mark Suster in which he gives a ton of useful advice about the angel investment process.
Mark breaks it all down extremely to the basics:
Good idea and plan
Team
Product
Market validation
If you’ve been thinking [...]
Express Yourself (and your company)
August 14, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Check out this video promoting Herman Miller. It follows along my thoughtstream lately about mission/goals/etc nicely and is a great example of finding a way to communicate those things to others. (hat tip to @robomalo for tweeting the link to the video earlier)
Why Do You Do What You Do?
August 14, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
“Apple’s goal isn’t to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products…
We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence we’ll make some money. But we’re really clear about what our goals are….
We try not to bring out another product that’s just [...]
What’s Your Mission? Wait… You Have One Right?
August 13, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Mission Statements. Those are for those big corporations that need to make themselves sound like they have a purpose right? They aren’t for startups right? Wrong! Well okay, partially wrong… maybe you don’t need a mission statement; like the kind you frame and put up on the wall, but you sure as heck need a [...]
Choose Your Revenue Model EARLY
August 12, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Mashable’s post title for this post, “UberTwitter: Now with uber annoying ads” pretty much makes my point. If not that, then check out the article and the screenshot of the tweets on the topic.
I’ve always been a pretty vocal advocate for charging users CASH MONEY right out of the gate for your app. Whether you [...]
Jimmy Fallon Demos ShopSavvy
August 12, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Now how is this for some publicity! Jimmy Fallon recently demoed T-Mobile’s new MyTouch 3G phone on his show because T-Mobile is a show sponsor… and what app did he use for the demo? None other than Dallas-based Big in Japan’s ShopSavvy, a very cool product comparison tool. Check out the video clip below:
Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour Resumes 8/17!
August 10, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
I’m happy to announce that the Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour will resume beginning one week from today on Monday, August 17th! Also, a big shout out to Drop.io and Jake Good for sponsoring this event!
Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour
Sponsored in part by
Please RSVP on Upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4225004/
Monday August 17, 2009 at [...]
TechStars Holds 2009 Demo Day
August 6, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
TechStars, the seed funding and startup/entrepreneur mentoring incubator, held its 2009 Investor Demo Day today. (TechStars was co-founded by David Cohen who authors Colorado Startups, and is a co-founder of SpringStage. Definitely check out his blog if you don’t read it regularly already.)
TechStars takes 10 companies a year, gives them some seed capital and a [...]
Fort Worth Jelly This Friday
August 3, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Lauren Smith will be hosting a jelly this Friday in Fort Worth. I am super pumped that there is someone else here in Fort Worth now willing to put some effort into building the co-working community!
Here are the details:
Join us Friday, August 7th for coffee, community, and coworking!
From 10:30 am - 5 pm we will [...]
Dallas Startup Happy Hour Tomorrow
August 2, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
For those of you that have been coming regularly to the Fort Worth Startup Happy Hour, I REALLY want to encourage you to make it over to our sister event in Dallas tomorrow! You’ll meet a lot of great people in the startup community as there is usually anywhere between 30-60+ people that show up. [...]
How Your Startup Can Use Twitter
July 7, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
Humanity Snowboards is a young brand comprised of some industry veterans and they are capitalizing on social media with both barrels blazing.
We’ve seen a lot of contest/giveaways pop up on Twitter, but I think Humanity is really raising the bar a notch with their Summer Tweet’away Contest. Not only will Humanity be giving away a [...]
Startup Profile: TheHappyHourLocator.com
June 25, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startup Profiles, Startups, Venture Capital
Company: The Happy Hour Locator
Name: John Harvey
Title : Owner/President
Email : john.harvey@thehappyhourlocator.com
Give us the 30-second elevator pitch on your company
The Happy Hour Locator is an internet advertising website with the target market being the business traveler. We will feature 20 of the best establishments around a 10 to 15 mile radius of each airport in Texas [...]
FW Startup Happy Hour Postponed
June 15, 2009 | Filed under Blog
I’ve gotten a few calls/emails about the Fort Worth Happy Hour. Unfortunately, I will not be able to host the even tonight and will be rescheduling the Happy Hour for another time.
Stay tuned to the blog for the latest information on upcoming SpringStage events in Fort Worth.
Squeejee Launches Floxee, Platform for Custom Twitter Directories
June 10, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups
** again, in case you didn’t remember… I’m a developer at Squeejee and therefore am intimately tied to this project.
So, what the heck is this Floxee thing anyway?
Floxee is a platform to bring your Twitter flock together. To boil it way down, Floxee is essentially groups for Twitter; get a bunch of Twitter users and [...]
