Nashville Offers More Than Just Country Music: Startup Scene Shines At Southland

It’s easy to overlook a city like Nashville, Tennessee. On the surface, it’s all country music and southern hospitality, and even though country music is gaining mainstream appeal these days, there’s more going on in this great city than first meets the eye. For example, $1.4 billion of venture capital has been raised by 215 [...]... Read More

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SXSW Interview: Eduardo Tobon, President, Diners Club International
BY: Edward Domain
Eduardo Tobon recently took over the helm as President of Diners Club International. As he expands the brand of the world’s first credit card worldwide, he is also different than many chief executives. Tobon not only realized Diners Club needed to be on social media, he uses social media himself and leads by example. Rare [...]
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First Annual Gamemaking Frenzy Opens At This Year’s Fantastic Arcade
BY: Corey Cummings
The first ever game making marathon is scheduled to run between September 14 and 16th, and will task teams of developers with creating a project based around the popular Cartoon Network show Adventure Time.
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Cinsay Crushes Traditional Online Shopping Carts With 9% Conversion Rate
BY: Kathryn Hough
These astounding conversion and engagement rates that Cinsay is generating with the company’s Smart Store™ platform point to a larger trend in ecommerce: the death of the traditional online shopping cart.
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SpareFoot Storage Finder Disrupts Self-storage Industry
BY: Melissa Brito
What started out as a college student’s quest to store his belongings for a summer without breaking the bank has flourished into a thriving online resource for self-storage searches.
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Cinsay Is The Home Shopping Network For Viral Videos
BY: Kathryn Hough
Austin-based Cinsay offers users a way to monetize cat, cute baby, and skate videos without plastering intrusive ads all over the videos.
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Become A Game Designer, No Coding Required With GameSalad
BY: Kathryn Hough
GameSalad is poised to change the gaming industry with its end to end game platform that allows anyone to create and monetize a game, no coding required.
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CityMaps Now Charting The Chicago Area
BY: Corey Cummings
After adding Boston last week, social mapping startup CityMaps has now expanded the service into the Chicago area.
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GiveForward, Threadless, Tap.me Founders Discuss The Business Of Passion
BY: Corey Cummings
The founders of GiveForward, Threadless, and Tap.me discussed how they turned their individual passions into successful businesses at the latest Entrepreneurs Unpluggd event.
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Austin’s Capital Factory Sharpens Entrepreneurial Skills for Just $150 A Month
BY: Kathryn Hough
Think that you have to give up equity in your company to have access to a place where you can work and meet successful mentors? Now, it only costs $150 per month.
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Brad Feld Launches Random Acts Of Kindness On GiveForward
BY: Kathryn Hough
Venture capitalist and avid marathoner Brad Feld is using GiveForward to raise money for sick families.
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GiveForward, 21st Century Youth Project Win Gold Medals At Edison Awards
BY: Corey Cummings
Chicago-based startups GiveForward and the 21st Century Youth Project have both won gold medals at this year’s Edison Awards.
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Hoot.Me: Switching Facebook Into Study Mode
BY: Smith Schwartz
Facebook application that lets students, teachers and tutors interact through social media to get homework finished better and faster.
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Facebook Announces Timeline Apps At SXSW
BY: Jason Rowley
Facebook released new statistics on Open Graph applications at SXSW, touting success stories of popular Timeline apps. According to Facebook product manager Austin Haugen, over 3000 timeline apps have launched, and third-party app developers have seen marked increases in traffic and growth in their user base due to their new presence on their users’ timelines. For example: [...]
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SXSW: Gawker VP Talks About The Next Generation of Publishing
BY: Rex Harris
“A lot of the stuff you see a few days later in mainstream media, you got from us first. That makes it very personal for the readership – there’s a lot of engagement there.” That’s a quote from Gawker’s VP of ad sales, Andrew Gorenstein, talking about how a new breed of publishers, like Gawker [...]
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Don’t Go To SXSW; Crush Your Competition Instead
BY: Kathryn Hough
SXSW kicked off on Friday, but you already knew that if you signed into Facebook or Twitter over the weekend. Every tech hub that is not Austin, TX becomes a ghost town for one week in March. It can leave the geeks left behind with a massive case of FOMO (fear of missing out). But [...]
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Surviving, Thriving and Splitting on the StartupBus to SXSW
BY: Cameron Keng
Startupbus, for those unfamiliar is a competition where 10 cities (11 this year) each have a bus heading towards Austin, TX for SXSW. The goal is to create a startup in 3 days with complete strangers after getting on the bus. It’s a hackathon on wheels. Highlights that I’ve experienced thusfar: Vomiting. This trip is [...]
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Mind-Controlled Skateboard Helps You Live Out Your Tony Hawk Fantasy
BY: Kathryn Hough
Rarely does a lead come across my desk that makes me think: “This is an ingenius hoax!” It happened to me this week when I heard about a skateboard that you can control with your mind. Google AR glasses I can totally believe, but this just seemed too insane. Upon further investigation, I found out [...]
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Solopreneur Documents His Startup Journey On Google Plus
BY: Mike Vosters
After years in the corporate world, Aaron Longnion decided it was time for something different and started Refynr, a web app that lets you filter the clutter out of your social media feeds. Now, he’s documenting his entrepreneurial journey by writing a book on Google+.
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FeedMagnet: Social Content Curation for Fortune 500′s
BY: Mike Vosters
[Austin, TX] FeedMagnet is a web application that helps brands curate and display social media from 14 social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, and more. Headquartered in the GoLab co-working space in Austin, TX, their team of five is working hard to help Fortune 500 companies add social layers to their websites [...]
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GiveForward Brings Crowdfunding to Chicago
BY: Jennifer Beese
In 2010, more than 50 million Americans were without healthcare. That number grew by more than four million in 2009. Paying for medical bills is a burden even when you have health insurance; the hit to your bank account can be devastating, both financially and emotionally. Fifty percent of Americans would not be able to [...]
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Tripeezy: Travel Sharing Made Simple
BY: Mike Vosters
While traveling around the world, Paige Brown wanted to share her experiences with friends and family, but couldn’t without paying for international access to her smartphone. To solve this problem, she decided to create Tripeezy – a web and mobile application that allows for online and offline content sharing worldwide.
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Refynr: Eliminating Clutter from your Social Media Streams
BY: Mike Vosters
For heavy users of social media, navigating Facebook and Twitter content can be like drinking water from a fire hose. That’s why Austin-native Aaron Longnion founded Refynr – a web app that lets you filter the clutter out of your social media feeds.
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