Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and cofounder of Capital Factory, has joined the board of directors of PostUp, formerly known as PulseConnect, an email marketing software company. Baer founded the Austin-based company under the name of Skylist in 1996 and later sold it. “Although I founded the company almost 20 years ago, PostUp still offers a […]
Capital Factory Celebrates its Sixth Anniversary Kung Fu Geek Style
June 22, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Capital Factory celebrated its 6th anniversary Friday night with a party at Kung Fu Saloon in downtown Austin. More than 800 people RSVP’d to attend the event and Capital Factory gave away 400 T-shirts. Key employees and founders of Capital Factory received giant wooden Jenga blocks with their names engraved on them to commemorate the […]
Fourteen Startups Pitch at UT Longhorn Startup Demo Day
December 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The fifth Longhorn Startup Demo Day at the University of Texas drew the largest crowd ever. Close to 1,000 people registered to attend the event and most of them showed up despite the cold front and blustery weather that blew into Austin on Thursday. The evening featured […]
Mark Cuban and Cotter Cunningham to Speak at Longhorn Startup Lab
October 27, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Longhorn Startup Lab started out two years ago as a way to jump start undergraduate entrepreneurs at the University of Texas at Austin. The program run by Bob Metcalfe, UT professor of innovation, and Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Capital Factory, has graduated four classes so far. Ben Dyer, entrepreneur in residence at […]
An Evening With Josh Baer: On Obama, Lionel Ritchie, and Not Getting Everything Right
October 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News Josh Baer is living something of a charmed life right now. When ACL was rained out last Sunday, he managed to get Lionel Ritchie to give a private performance for 50 people at the home of a friend. His brainchild, Capital Factory, was visited by President Barack […]
Five Austin Startups Demo Products at the InnoTech Beta Summit
November 9, 2012 by 1 Comment
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 […]
The Tao of “Austinpreneur” Joshua Baer
June 26, 2012 by 1 Comment
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 […]
10 Companies Shine at UT’s 1 Semester Startup Demo Day
April 27, 2012 by 8 Comments
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 […]
University of Texas’ Spring 1 Semester Startup Demo Day tonight
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
State of Austin entrepreneurship at the Future Forum
February 27, 2012 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
