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BorrowedSugar.com makes the word "local" meaningful again!

I haven’t written about startups or companies in general for a while… today I want to share with you some details about an organization from Austin, TX, its name is Borrowed Sugar. Borrowed Sugar gets its name from the simple act of one neighbor lending a cup of sugar

Are incubators and Angel money more harmful than beneficial to software startups?

Many people including myself agree that the cash investment from incubators, angel investors and any other type of investment have its benefits. When you join an incubator and/or get angel investors on board, you could also get great resources in the manner of experienced advice, partnerships, networking, free services,

37 Signals Gets VC Boost... Again!

A Legendary VC firm from the valley area is investing $56 million in 37 Signals. This comes after a rumor that SalesForce.com was interested in buying 37 Signals for an undisclosed amount. This is the second time 37 Signals gets an investment despite their comments everywhere about being against

Looking for a Co-Founder in Austin? We have a Meetup for you!

The second Co-Founders Meetup happened this past Thursday, February, 17 and it was a good turn over; 65 people showed up forming a good crowd of entrepreneurs and techies. We had 9 people pitch their startups, and looking for everything from developers, designers, marketing and sales people. The goal of

Developers: Rackspace gives you $10,000 in prizes for building in their cloud

Get ready for a battle. Rackspace is kicking off the SXSW Interactive King of the Apps contest, an ongoing contest targeted towards developers and startups to build applications using the Rackspace Cloud Files API. For more information and for contestants to submit their app, please see: http://www.rackspace.com/

Gowalla 3 is out, watch out foursquare!

Austin-based Gowalla released version 3 of its iPhone application. This new release brings people (and competitors) closer. Some of the most interesting updates are the integration with rival foursquare and the tight integration with Facebook Places. Gowalla now allows users to broadcast their checkins to Facebook Places and yes foursquare

Best free (and almost free) resources for tech startups

I know it is not an easy task to start a company, ever. However, it is not impossible either, specially if you are trying to get a tech startup off the ground. You see, tech startups have the advantage to start companies without the need of retail space, inventory, employees

The co-founders meetup is landing in Austin, TX on Dec 6th

The Austin Co-founders Meetup is all about helping business people find a technical co-founder and vice versa. This meetup was first created in Mountain View by Alain Raynaud which is the co-founder of an awesome web app that helps recruit great founders (yes there is an app for that!). Austin

Austin-based Riptano Lands $2.7 million Offering Professional Cassandra Support

The Austin-based startup was created to help turn Cassandra into the next big thing for storing and analyzing large amounts of data. Riptano’s co-founder, Matt Pfeil announced yesterday that Riptano is Live. Cassandra is a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo’s fully distributed design and Bigtable’

IngZ Releases New Austin-Focused App for Mobile Guided Tours

Austin, Texas – October 21, 2010 – IngZ, Inc. (www.ingz-inc.com), an Austin-based mobile software development company, today announced the availability of touringZ Austin Edition, a touringZ app that is uniquely Austin. With the new app users receive all the capabilities of touringZ, in addition to more than a dozen bundled