The population of Austin Tx has seen steady growth since its establishment in the mid-19th century. Each decade since has seen at least double digit growth. Some may think Austin has only recently been a boom town; the fact is that Austin has been a boom town since inception. Historically, during the last decade Austin population growth […]
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Founded in 2008, Austin based software startup Spredfast raises a Series C round of financing worth $18 million to help take them to the next level. Since inception the company has raised over $33 million. Austin Ventures, Interwest Partners, and OpenView Venture Partners were among the primary investors. Spredfast creates software that helps companies manage social media campaigns and
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John Arrow, CEO of Mutual Mobile makes the Forbes list of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. At only 25 years old Arrow started the company with a few Unversity of Texas college friends in 2009. The company now has over 300 employees, 225 of which live in Austin, Tx. The company develops software that
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Austin startup, Bee Cave Games, a social media and mobile games developer that specializes in casino games has recently raised $1.4 million in seed funding. Founded in 2012 by industry veterans and former Zynga developers they were able to raise the intial funding by employees, investors, and other strategic investments from companies such as Glu
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Motivating & retaining employees is always a challenge for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Competitors know that luring your company’s best performers will save the expense of training an inexperienced hire while forcing you to “break in” a new employee. It also gives your competitor a known and proven asset who can execute his duties with a high
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Thinking of starting your own small business or just need access to small business resources and advice? Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) typically offer FREE advice, resources, consulting, and plans. Are you taking advantage of that? They assist small businesses and entrepreneurs with a variety of resources and services covering every stage from startup to business planning
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Generation Y (Gen Y) consists of people born in the last two decades of the 20th century, who are now in their early-to-mid twenties and ready for employment. A huge generation gap is created between employers and these prospective employees since the latter have grown up with technology and electronic gadgets all around them. Gen
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Austin is once again ranked as America’s fastest growing city by Forbes.com. Based on metrics such as population growth, job growth, economic growth, etc Austin has outranked every large U.S. Metropolitan area for the 3rd year in a row. It doesn’t hurt that we have a great university with 51,000 students (UT), portfolio of large growing corporations,
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According to a story in the Austin American Statesman another video game developer is open an Austin office. German company, Crytek is opening it’s first U.S. office in Austin Tx, which will be its 9th worldwide. David Adams, founder of Vigil Games will lead Cryteks new Austin office headquarters. Found in 1999, Crytek has studios
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Austin Texas history carries a variety of monikers – Silicon Hills, Live Music Capital of the World – but in the late 1800s it was known as the City of the Violet Crown due to the bluish aura glowing across the hills to the west at sunset. Texas Republic President Mirabeau B. Lamar Selects Austin
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