Technology news about Austin and San Antonio
By L.A. LOREK, Founder of Silicon Hills News The Beta Summit at InnoTech Austin on Thursday featured five innovative startup companies. Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Capital Factory, served as the event’s moderator. He pitched his startup, OtherInbox, at the InnoTech Beta Summit a few years ago. The startups each had eight minutes [...]
BY SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Joshua Baer has a set of those millionaire-on-a-skateboard dotcom Gold Rush stories that give the Austin startup scene its own sexy tech history. Baer graduated Carnegie Mellon with a less-than-stellar academic record, and a couple hundred grand in revenues from being an early dabbler in web hosting [...]
All of the entrepreneurs presenting at the University of Texas’ 1 Semester Startup Spring Demo Day Thursday night appeared polished and professional. The 10 company teams had solid ideas and at least one, PhotoWhoa is already turning a profit. Josh Baer, one of the instructors and founder of Capital Factory and with UT’s Department of [...]
If you don’t have plans tonight, snag a ticket to 1 Semester Startup Demo Day. It starts with drinks and appetizers at 5 p.m. and then the program kicks off an hour later with Bob Metcalfe, one of three instructors in the program and professor of innovation in the University of Texas Cockrell School of [...]
Austin is one of the best cities for young entrepreneurs as ranked by Under30CEO.com, which listed the city third in 2011 for startups behind New York and San Francisco, according to the Future Forum at the LBJ Library. The Future Forum recently held a panel discussion on the “state of Austin entrepreneurship.” Joshua Baer, one [...]
Joshua Baer, founder of the OtherInbox and founder of a gazillion startups, has a new venture he’s heading up. He has joined with a handful of people in the Austin technology community to create WeAreAustinTech. Each week the site will highlight an “icon” in the Austin technology community in a video interview posted to its [...]
During the first One Semester Startup at the University of Texas, 75 students formed 20 companies. Thursday night, the students behind those newly formed ventures pitched their startups to about 200 people, some students, university faculty, press, investors and entrepreneurs, gathered at the University of Texas stadium’s Red McCombs End Zone Club. The pitches ranged [...]
