Every year we lose sleep in anticipation of South By Southwest. Since 2010, we’ve hosted huge events that showcase startups from across the globe. Last year we hosted an all day #Startuplife celebration that included live interviews with entrepreneurs, startup founders and thoughtleaders, a ramen noodle lunchtime event and our classic startup showcase Mixer event…
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Do you work with a large Facebook fanpage? Confused by all the social noise across all the social media channels? Why, social media, why do you create such a tsunami of noise? Welcome Whit.li. Whit.li is a smart social segmentation and analytics tool for enterprise which allows segmentation of social media audiences, creates clarification of…
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Today, BlackLocus announced that it was acquired by The Home Depot and will become the Home Depot’s Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas. BlackLocus makes business software for retailers that turns lots of data into understandable, actionable information. As part of Home Depot, it will help the big-box retailer decide on pricing, which selection of items…
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With SXSWi tickets at $895, Interact ATX is organizing events for young entrepreneurs during SXSW and helping reduce the cost of attendance. The organization, started by University of Texas at Austin senior Maran Nelson, is looking for 100 young entrepreneurs to join them in Austin on March 7-11. The lucky applicants will be hosted by…
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It’s August, but it is not too early to be talking about SXSW 2013. Each year, the organizers let the public have a say in the programming – 30 percent of the community vote factors into which sessions are scheduled during the conference portion of festivities. That can only mean one thing – yes my…
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“Why were you put on this earth to create this product?” Tough question to answer, but as a startup founder, you should have a very good answer – you never know when it might get asked. Most of the 18 finalists who competed in the fourth annual SXSW Accelerator had to answer it fast when queried…
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The healthcare system in the U.S. has been a mess for a while – and it’s not getting better. Did you know that , despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on public service announcement, 1 out of 5 Americans still don’t finish their antibiotics courses? Aza Raskin, Founder and CEO of Massive Health, believes a…
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If you’re a startup founder, I bet you can relate to Ketan Anjaria’s statement that “having a startup is like having a cranky, expensive child.” Though Anjaria, Founder and CEO of the digital business card app CardFlick, won major brownie points by declaring that you should not read TechCrunch during his interview at our SXSW…
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The model of salaried employees working in offices is slowly shifting, says Tony Bacigalupo. And he’s accelerating that shift as mayor of New Work City, a coworking space in (you guessed it) New York City. When he’s not coworking, Bacigalupo is out and about in the NYC tech scene helping organize meetups, Barcamps, TEDx, and Girl…
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Neil Mylet is a rather atypical startup founder. He was raised on a farm and continues to spend 8 hours a day farming in central Indiana. Naturally, his startup, LoadOut, is agriculture-focused: their goal is to improve mobile adoption in farming. During our SXSW #StartupLife Celebration on March 10, Mylet stopped by to talk about…
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I went to my first SXSW when I was 17, using my sister’s badge to catch a glimpse of Janeane Garofolo at Emos in Austin. You can watch that SXSW described by then-musician Fred Armisen here. The conference has come a very long way since then. Originally a ploy by Austin bars to stay full during…
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Cindy Gallop is older, female, and working on a startup related to sex – not the greatest combination for finding venture capital, she says. But with her sharp independence and honest vivacity, she sure makes for an inspiring entrepreneur. Gallop launched Make Love Not Porn (NSFW) to a few giggles and much chatter at TED in…
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If you like to travel, you might want to know about Zamp, a social travel service that connects travelers while they are traveling – not before or after. According to co-founder Sam Zebarjadi, a billion hours are spent every year sitting around and waiting for flights, a number I do not doubt in the least. …
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Sites like AngelList help startups and investors meet, but where do they go from there? Gust is a platform that goes beyond connection to help them manage the relationship: investors can browse opportunities, share deals with other VCs, and communicate with their portfolio, while startups can find investors and raise new rounds of funding. Internet…
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Shane Green wants you to have control over your data – not the data that apps or social networks are quietly monitoring, but the bits of messy, sticky-noted data you’re constantly looking up. Green is the CEO of Personal, which lets you create shareable “gems” of data like Work Directions, Favorite Recipes, or Passports. He’s…
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Marci Harris has seen both worlds. As a congressional staffer, she participated in the “zero-sum game” of politics, where the goal is often to beat your opponent or not get dragged down into a scandal. As an entrepreneur – cofounder and CEO of POPVOX – Harris has now joined a world of community and innovation…
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