Dave Michaels with Tech Ranch Austin promotes the Austin Startup Bazaar during Austin Startup Week. The day-long event Thursday at Austin City Hall downtwon featured speed-mentoring sessions, pitch sessions, city hall tours, company demonstrations and a marketing talk. At the Austin Startup Bazaar, Mark Philip, founder of Are You Watching This, talks about his sports […]
Infochimps acquires Keepstream
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Tim Gasper, co-founder of Keepstream, an alumni of the Capital Factory program, talks about his company’s acquisition by infochimps. Infochimps, an Austin-based data marketplace company with 14 employees, announced the deal at the Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2011. Keepstream is a social media curation tool that gathers content from Twitter, Facebook and other social media […]
One semester startup UT students create PurpleSight.com
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These guys are part of one semester startup at the University of Texas at Austin. The program has more than 100 undergraduate students enrolled. So far, they have formed 22 companies. These guys created a political news site, PurpleSight that aggregates the blue and the red perspective on stories. The idea is to give both […]
Doing the Austin Startup Crawl
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After the action-packed Capital Factory Demo Day, techies hit the hotspots on the Austin Startup Crawl tour to network, nosh on snacks and drink. More than 700 people RSVP’ed to the event on Facebook and Plancast, said Josh Baer, one of the Austin Startup Week founders. San Antonio-based Rackspace sponsored the event which included shuttle […]
A storify wrap up of The Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2011
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An explosion of entrepreneurship at Demo Day 2011
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Like a hungry mob at an all you can eat buffet, people gorged themselves on entrepreneurship information Wednesday at the third annual Capital Factory Demo Day 2011. The day-long event at the AT&T Conference Center in downtown Austin kicked off with a keynote speech by Bob Metcalfe, the co-inventor of the Ethernet, founder of 3Com […]
The Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2011
September 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
At The Capital Factory’s office, founder Josh Baer gave an overview of Demo Day 2011 during the Startup Crawl. The third annual Capital Factory Demo Day took place on Wednesday at the AT&T Conference Center in downtown Austin. Five Capital Factory Finalists showed off their companies to investors and others at the day-long sold out […]
HelpJuice takes the pain out of online customer relations
September 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Emil Hajric, CEO of HelpJuice, gave a demonstration to investors at the Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2011. His company was one the five Capital Factory 2011 Demo Day Finalists. HelpJuice makes an application that makes updating knowledgebases like Frequently Asked Questions or FAQs for companies easy.
SpeakerMix connects event planners with speakers
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Jack McGary, co-founder of SpeakerMix, gave a presentation to investors and others at the Capital Factory’s Demo Day 2011 Wednesday morning. SpeakerMix was one of five Capital Factory 2011 Finalists. Speakermix is a one-stop shop for finding a speaker for an event. The company’s website is like an online match making service for event planners […]
Groupcharger’s app engages almuni
September 7, 2011 by 2 Comments
Kirtus Dixon, co-founder and CEO of GroupCharger was selected as one of the five Capital Factory 2011 Finalists. He pitched his company to investors during Austin Startup Week at the Capital Factory’s sold-out event Demo Day 2011. Dixon’s company, GroupCharger, seeks to get alumni more actively involved and donating to their Alma Maters through its first […]
