By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News San Antonio has always had angel investors but it hasn’t had a formal network for a while, but a year ago that changed with the formation of the San Antonio Angel Network. “A group of local investors, visionaries, entrepreneurs got together and hatched the idea that San […]
NaturallyCurly CoFounder Michelle Breyer Created a Curl Empire in Austin
April 1, 2017 by 2 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Publisher and Reporter with Silicon Hills Host of Ideas to Invoices As a business reporter at the Austin American-Statesman, Michelle Breyer launched a website geared to girls with curls. At a party with friends and colleagues, Breyer complained about the lack of hairstyles and products for women with curly hair. At the […]
Cafe Commerce Officially Launches in San Antonio
June 30, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Entrepreneurs and small businesses now have a new resource to get help in San Antonio. Café Commerce, operated by Accion Texas with funding from the city, officially opened Monday at the central library downtown. Peter French, founder of FreeFlow Research, serves as president of Café Commerce. Small businesses contribute three quarters of the new jobs […]
Silicon Hills News Launches a Kickstarter Campaign
January 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This week, Silicon Hills News launched its first Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to create a slick print magazine to be released at South by Southwest Interactive. At SXSW, Silicon Hills News is hosting a startup pitch competition in conjunction with the Austin Technology Incubator. We plan to distribute the 32-page color magazine at the SXSW panel. […]
Tips on Pitching Billionaire Mark Cuban
December 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News At Longhorn Startup Demo Day last week, Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, co-founder of 3Com and professor of innovation at UT, interviewed Billionaire Mark Cuban, co-founder of Broadcast.com and owner of the Dallas Mavericks. Cuban also stars on the popular TV show Shark Tank on ABC. This […]
Billionaire Mark Cuban likes to “Party Like a Rock Star” and Invest in Startups
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Since selling Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7 billion in 1999, Billionaire Mark Cuban has invested in 80 startups. But his entrepreneurial ventures began as a kid growing up in Pittsburgh. “As long as I can remember I was an entrepreneur,” Cuban said. At the age of nine […]
How to Get Money from VC and Angel Investors
May 15, 2013 by 1 Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Austin has one of the nation’s most active angel networks through the Central Texas Angel Network, known as CTAN. Last year, CTAN, with 100 members, invested about $8 million in 28 companies, including 13 new companies and 15 portfolio companies. Every angel investor is doing it because […]
Startup Advice from Serial Entrepreneurs in Austin
May 14, 2013 by 4 Comments
By LAURA LOREK Founder Silicon Hills News Startup founders can learn a lot from entrepreneurs who have been there and done that. And on Monday, three serial entrepreneurs in Austin shared some of the challenges they faced in building their companies and some tips on how others can succeed. Sam Decker, co-founder of Mass Relevance, […]
Startup Grind San Antonio Launches Featuring Interview with Jason Seats
April 13, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Startup Grind, based in Mountain View, Calif. seeks to foster entrepreneurship through storytelling. Derek Anderson founded Startup Grind, which now has chapters in 40 cities and 20 countries around the world. One of the latest chapters is Startup Grind San Antonio. The values of Startup Grind are important ones to foster an entrepreneurial environment. “We […]
Bijoy Goswami on “We Are Austin Tech”
August 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Every week, We Are Austin Tech, a group of entrepreneurs, technologists and other volunteers release a video highlighting someone who has contributed to the local technology industry. Last week’s video put the spotlight on Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine and other startups including co-founding Capital Factory. We Are Austin Tech seeks to tell the story […]
