By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News To launch a business in college, students must master all kinds of skills. They might have to make a business plan, find funding, do market research, sell products or services, stay on top of legal issues and intellectual property rights and sometimes figure out manufacturing. This weekend, […]
Silicon Hills Technology Weekly Round-Up
December 11, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The shortage of technology workers in the Silicon Hills region continues. The Austin American-Statesman today reported that the recent trip technology CEOs from Austin took to California didn’t result in any new employees moving to Texas. Perhaps that’s why San Antonio-based Rackspace recently opened an office in San Francisco. The technology companies have to go […]
Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf’s crowd-sourced talk
December 9, 2011 by 1 Comment
Rackspace co-founder Dirk Elmendorf gave a crowd-sourced talk Friday night during San Antonio Startup Ignite’s third Hack-a-thon at the Geekdom. To start, Elmendorf went to the white board and asked the crowd of about 100 what they wanted to know. People shouted out about a dozen questions including “what was your first entrepreneurial experience, what […]
TechStars Cloud applicants meetup in San Antonio
November 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
The deadline to apply for the TechStars Cloud program is Monday. But already the program has received several hundred applications for the inaugural TechStars program in San Antonio, said Jason Seats, managing director for TechStars Cloud and cofounder of Slicehost, which San Antonio-based Rackspace acquired. On Friday night, several of those entrepreneurs met with Rackspace […]
