Archive for September, 2009
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #18 - Candice Lapin of PARA ti NOVIA
This is Candice Lapin from PARA ti NOVIA. PARA ti NOVIA is a guidebook and community for Hispanic brides. You can think of it as a Latin American version of The Knot, who also happens to have its development offices here in Austin. It seems that we attract these types of wedding communities.
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #17 - Dan Graham of BuildASign.com
Dan Graham is a co-founder and managing director at BuildASign.com. BuildASign.com is a great success story and example for folks that are trying to bootstrap and grow a company gradually. They got their start consulting in Austin. They saw the opportunity to grow into a product business and went for it. They are pulling well over 10M revenue now and expanding into international printing. If you are running a startup in Austin, here is a special treat for you.
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #16 - Tina Cannon of petsMD
Tina Cannon is the CEO and a cofounder of petsMD. The name petsMD speaks for itself. I am avoiding both pets and kids in life right now, but I imagine that when that time comes, I will be all over both petsMD and webMD. I have watched friends and family spend a pretty penny keeping their pets healthy. Anything that can make that process easier, cheaper, or faster is valuable. I look forward to seeing petsMD grow.
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #15 - Chuck Gordon of SpareFoot
This is Chuck Gordon from SpareFoot. He is the CEO of one of the 5 companies that pitched at Demo Day. He is a recent grad out of UCLA. He and his team of 3 other co-founders moved out to join us in Austin after getting funded by Capital Factory.
SpareFoot is an online marketplace for storage. It serves to unify a very fragmented market. They liken themselves to Expedia. However, they still have features that allow users to lease their own extra space. Perhaps a better comparison is UShip.
Austin Entrepreneur Interview #14 - Sam Decker of Capital Factory
I went to Capital Factory Demo Day on Wednesday and here is the first of a handful of interviews from the event. This is Sam Decker talking about Capital Factory. He is one of the three Co-Founders and Managing Directors at Capital Factory. Demo Day was the end of incubation for the first round of startups for Capital Factory to invest in. It was great to watch them all pitch.