Guides to SXSW 2014 in Austin

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News It’s that crazy time of year in Austin when locals leave for Spring Break and rent out their houses and apartments for gobs of money to the estimated 30,000 people expected to attend this year’s South by Southwest Interactive. That’s right, it’s the biggest, wildest and wackiest […]

We Are Austin Tech Features Whoosh’s Erica Douglass

This week, We Are Austin Tech, the weekly video site highlighting local movers and shakers in the technology industry, has put the spotlight on Erica Douglass, founder of Whoosh Traffic. Douglass moved to Austin last year from Silicon Valley. Susan Lahey wrote this profile of her last year. “Erica started a web hosting and development […]

We Are Austin Tech Features VolunteerSpot’s Karen Bantuveris

We Are Austin Tech, a weekly video segment featuring Austin’s technology industry movers and shakers, has released its latest video featuring VolunteerSpot Founder and CEO Karen Bantuveris. Bantuveris founded VolunteerSpot, which creates tools for moms, nonprofit organizers and others to coordinate volunteers, in 2009. Last summer, VolunteerSpot raised $1.5 million from ff Venture Capital of […]

Bijoy Goswami on “We Are Austin Tech”

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 […]