SiliconHills

JULY 22, 2012

A team of four former Rackspace employees claimed the top prize at San Antonio Startup Weekend. True Ability, a service that lets companies test the technical aptitude of job candidates, won the panel of judges over. “TrueAbility helps companies hire great techs,” Frederick Mendler, CEO, said during his pitch.

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SiliconHills

JULY 1, 2014

The plucky startup also has another 10 employees in a satellite office in California. And WP Engine has just opened a San Antonio office at Geekdom, a technology incubator and coworking […] The post WP Engine Opens an Office at Geekdom in San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

JULY 30, 2014

Medical technology startup Bluegrass Vascular Technologies has closed on $4.5 Targeted Technology Fund II, a San Antonio-based venture capital fund that invests in early stage life sciences companies, led the Series A investment. Million in Funding and Moves to San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2014

I am very excited to have the opportunity to restart and lead the Techstars Cloud program: [link] cc @techstars — Blake Yeager (@blake_yeager) July 23, 2014 The Techstars Cloud program launched in San Antonio in 2012 with 11 companies and the next year another 11 startups participated in the 2013 program.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 13, 2013

Startup Grind, based in Mountain View, Calif. Derek Anderson founded Startup Grind, which now has chapters in 40 cities and 20 countries around the world. One of the latest chapters is Startup Grind San Antonio. The values of Startup Grind are important ones to foster an entrepreneurial environment.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2017

The Capital Factory is a leading accelerator and coworking space based in Austin which has been building amazing entrepreneurs and startups since 2012. The city also adopted “Silicon Hills” as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies.In

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SiliconHills

MARCH 21, 2013

The Beta Summit at Innotech San Antonio showcases some of the most innovative young startups. The post Four Startups to Present at the Innotech San Antonio 2013 Beta Summit appeared first on SiliconHills. Silicon Hills [.]

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

In college, he would buy computer parts cheap and then sell them on America Online and […] The post Rackspace Co-Founder Pat Condon on Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. San Antonio cloud computing hosting Patrick Condon Rackspace technology'

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. Capital Factory will be making a $100,000 investment on stage in a blockchain startup. Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 30, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Seven startups will pitch at the eighth annual InnoTech Beta Summit on Wednesday. Gonzalez Convention Center, will showcase some of the best and brightest new technology startups in San Antonio. The event, which takes place at 3 p.m. at the Henry B.

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SiliconHills

JULY 22, 2012

When the sun set Friday night in San Antonio, a group of dedicated entrepreneurs and entrepreneur wannabes gathered to create new companies during a 54 hour period as part of San Antonio Startup Weekend. By Sunday morning, about a dozen people had dropped out.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This is the not-so-humble sales pitch of Codeup – a for-profit code education startup founded by San Antonio entrepreneur and angel investor Michael Girdley.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

But even as a little kid […] The post Techstars Austin’s Jason Seats on Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin San Antonio Jason Seats Rackspace Slicehost technology TechStars Austin TechStars Cloud' At the age of eight, he thought he wanted to be an archaeologist.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 16, 2013

At the Innotech San Antonio Beta Summit Wednesday at 3 p.m. six startup companies will pitch their companies. The audience will select one startup as the winner of the 2013 Beta Summit and that company will receive the trophy pictured here. This is the sixth annual beta summit at the Innotech San Antonio conference.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 2, 2014

Three new startups in San Antonio have received $25,000 cash investments each from the Geekdom Fund. The two-year-old fund aims to jumpstart the city’s startup community by providing seed-stage funding to tech startups. In February, the Geekdom Fund made investments in Nebula Technologies and Lightphile.

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SiliconHills

JULY 24, 2014

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News One of the big problems in growing San Antonio’s technology startup industry has been lack of access to capital for entrepreneurs.

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News The founders of Geekdom borrowed the “Serendipitous Collision of Ideas” phrase from Tony Hsieh, founder, and CEO of Zappos, and a catalyst in the Las Vegas technology community, said Lorenzo Gomez, chairman of Geekdom.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A chief technology officer (CTO) is a C-suite executive who is focused on scientific and technological issues including web applications, mobile applications, electronic and digital media development. The Face of the Product and Technology A CTO is often the face of the technology and product.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

The San Antonio-based company launched the Open Cloud Academy last year to put people through a rigorous training program that equips them to do jobs as network systems administrators […] The post New Rules, New Tools for Startups and Tech Companies appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 19, 2013

The company is inviting startups from Austin and San Antonio to apply to participate in the program. The post Austin and San Antonio Startups Invited to Apply for IBM’s Austin Mentor Day appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Technology' The deadline to apply is Monday, April 22nd.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 18, 2013

San Antonio has landed its own chapter of Health 2.0 The organization’s mission is to support health technology startups. based in San Francisco, started as an annual convention and now has 64 chapters around the world. The post San Antonio Gets Its Own Health 2.0 at Geekdom.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Graham Weston, co-founder and chairman of Rackspace Hosting, grew up in the greater San Antonio area. Weston’s first venture into entrepreneurship in high school involved selling organic pork from […] The post Startup Grind Features Graham Weston of Rackspace appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

My PR journey started with an amazing position with the renowned Jason Dady restaurant group in San Antonio, Texas. A fashion executive wife and technology entrepreneur husband we were moving house and faced a vexing problem: how to sell their fabulous, nearly new furnishings that couldn’t fit into their new digs?

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It was one of the first cases of old San Antonio money backing a startup technology venture here, she said. Now with Geekdom, a technology incubator and accelerator in downtown San Antonio, the goal […] The post Tips for Startups on Raising Old Money and Crowdfunding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although, let’s be honest, as a small startup I wouldn’t have had a chance if Frito-Lay contested my company name. 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. She was worth fighting for.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 1, 2013

David Spencer is an advocate for San Antonio’s technology community. Spencer was a founding board member and co-chair of the now defunct San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative, known as SATAI. San Antonio David Spencer OnBoard Software startups technology Texas Intrepid Ventures'

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2018

Last year, we released the Texas Startup Manifesto and announced our plans to expand our Accelerator program to include Dallas with a presence at The DEC. Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in Texas banded together to give one startup from San Antonio a $100,000 investment to try and change the world.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Austin always has a strong presence at SXSW and this year is no different. Time: 12:30PM?—?1:30PM Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Five nonprofit teams pitched their ventures at the Nonprofit Technology Summit Friday at Rackspace. The teams went through a 3 Day Startup program at Geekdom to prepare their presentations.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 19, 2018

Geekdom, the tech co-working space at the heart of San Antonio’s technology district, announced recently that it has teamed up with Alamo Angels to launch a pre-accelerator program designed to nurture new startups. The applications for the program opened […]. The applications for the program opened […].

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SiliconHills

JULY 20, 2012

Geekdom is taking a gamble on new technology startups. The collaborative coworking site today launched the Geekdom Fund, (the site should be live shortly) seed stage capital for technology startups in San Antonio.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 27, 2013

San Antonio Technology 3 Day Startup San Antonio 3DayStartupSanAntonio 3DS Geekdom San Antonio startups technology' The post Inside 3DS (Part I) appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2012

Even though Leslee Martinez’ team Trakk-EM didn’t win, she enjoyed the experience of Startup Weekend San Antonio. Trakk-EM had one of the largest teams with seven people. Martinez’ idea was to create a watch with built-in GPS that connected to a mobile phone app.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 27, 2016

This year Silicon Hills News is spotlighting the top 10 tech trends to watch in Austin and San Antonio in 2017.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

28:12) The pandemic as a moment to invest in people and technology, have a plan and execute. So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. It became brand building and culture building moment for the company. (21:41)

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 11, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Entrepreneurs in the life sciences industry in San Antonio for years complained about the lack of venture capital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2012

Dennis McWilliam, the president and chief executive officer and founder of Apollo Endosurgery will serve as the keynote luncheon speaker for the Emerging Medical Technology conference, April 4 at the Henry B. The event is part of the two-day San Antonio InnoTech which ends April 5. Gonzales Convention Center.

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