By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News “Eye of the Tiger” throbbed in the background, interrupted only by periodic swells of cheering as various teams won beer pong, foosball, darts and myriad other games at the third annual Startup Olympics in Austin Music Hall Saturday. Sixteen startup teams competed but SpareFoot triumphed, winning more […]
The importance of play at Austin Startup Olympics
January 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Never underestimate the importance in play in the workplace. People who play together have better collaboration and social skills, according to SocialWare, which produced this info graphic on the Importance of Play in Enterprise. But the guys at uShip already know that. They got together with seven other startups companies: BuildASign, Mass Relevance, Adlucent, Sparefoot, […]
Geek athletes compete at Austin’s Startup Olympics
January 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
Put Geek athletes into the Google search engine and what do you come up with? A correction suggestion for Greek Athletes. So the conclusion must be that Geek athletes are an evolution of the ancient Greek athletes that invented the Olympic Games in 776 BC in Olympia in Greece. And as part of that evolutionary […]
