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25 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I then wanted to play off of the strong Hispanic presence in San Antonio, a feeling of familiarity & friendliness, low-cost, and variety, so “Tacos” came to mind. My experience with naming my own company was to pick something that had a tie to me personally, was unique, and had something to do with technology or business.

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ParLevel Systems Makes Vending Machines Smarter

SiliconHills

San Antonio-based ParLevel installs wireless meters inside vending machines so that operators can generate real-time data on the machine’s inventory. ParLevel Systems gives vending machine operators more information about their customers and products. ParLevel pitched before several hundred [.]

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) 28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22)

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Rackspace Sees All Companies Moving to the Hybrid Cloud

SiliconHills

San Antonio-based Rackspace, which calls itself the Open Cloud company and co-founded with NASA the Open Stack operating system, has seen its cloud computing business skyrocket in the past few years.

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San Antonio Tech Community to Host its First Startup Week

SiliconHills

For more than four years, San Antonio’s technology community has been percolating with excitement amidst a ground swell of support bubbling up to create a vibrant startup industry. First, Geekdom set up operations in downtown San Antonio at the Weston Centre and then moved to its own building, the Rand on Houston St.

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Rackspace Launches OpenStack Training Programs

SiliconHills

Rackspace has just launched programs for information technology professionals looking for training on OpenStack. The San Antonio-based company founded OpenStack, the standard open-source operating system for cloud computing.

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SwRI Leads Open Source Consortium for Robot Makers

SiliconHills

Editor’s Note: Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio is a nonprofit research and engineering organization with more than 3,000 employees and revenue of $581 million last year. It’s one of the gems of San Antonio’s technology community. You can read more about the organization here.