TechStars Arrives In Austin, Will Launch First Program In August
TechStars, the popular startup accelerator with locations in Boston, Boulder, New York, Seattle, London, and more, has today announced an expansion to Austin, Texas – a city TechStars founder and CEO David Cohen refers to as the “natural next stop for us” in this morning’s announcement about the new location. The program will launch its first program this August, and is accepting applications now. TechStars Austin will operate out of Capital Factory in downtown Austin, and will be managed by Jason Seats, who sold his company Slicehost to Rackspace in 2008, making him VP of Engineering there. Seats has worked with the TechStars organization since 2011, serving as Managing Director of TechStars Cloud. He’ll now be relocating from San Antonio to Austin with his new position. Cohen also notes that Austin has been named the “number one boomtown” and best place for your startup by folks like Forbes and Bloomberg, and recently became the second city chosen to receive Google Fiber. ...
a-list
alley
announcement
applications
austin
aziz
baer
bazaarvoice
bloomberg
boebel
boston
boulder
brett
ceo david
cohen
commerce
competition
crunchbase
dachis
decker
dodd
emmoco
expansion
flager
forbes
gilani
google
hill
homeaway
infochimps
internet
jason
jeff
josh
kahan
kip
knowlton
location
london
lori
mapmyfitness
massrelevance
mcclanahan
meetup
mercury
mike
morgan
myedu
ned
organization
pitch-off
position
rackspace
relevance
rob
rony
sam
san antonio
seattle
silverton
slicehost
socialware
sparefoot
spiceworks
spredfast
taylor
techcrunch disrupt
techstars
texas
tom
uship
ventures
york
Web-Based Financial Terminal YCharts Raises $3.875M Round Led By Morningstar And Reed Elsevier Ventures
YCharts, a Chicago and New York-based startup that calls itself a financial terminal for the web, today announced that it has raised $3.875 million in its third funding round. The round was led by Morningstar and Reed Elsevier Ventures, with participation from all of the company’s earlier investors, including Hyde Park Angels, I2A and Amicus. This round brings YCharts’ total funding to $8.625 million. Last year, our own Rip Empson called the service “a better Yahoo finance,” but the company’s goal is now quite a bit broader than that. YCharts says it computes more than 2,000 metrics for every listed stock in its database and also tracks over 350,000 economic indicators from around the world. The service gets these data points from public sources, as well as through deals with other firms, including data from its investor Morningstar. YCharts also offers an Excel plugin that allows users to easily pull YCharts data into spreadsheets and financial models. As the company’s CEO ...
business
carpenter
ceo
chicago
choice
elsevier
empson
excel
expectations
finance
hyde park
information
million
morningstar
options
participation
raises
reed
relevance
service
shawn
statement
ventures
verification
yahoo
ycharts
york-based
The entrepreneur on Twitter: 13 points for growth and relevance
The founder of Twitter recently headlined a summit in Japan to offer advice to the country's entrepreneurs - but what should an entrepreneur do to gain Twitter followers and to move forward with 140-character nuggets?
advice
japan
relevance
twitter
Blackberry's future uncertain as new devices become last hope
As Blackberry struggles to regain relevance in the heavily saturated cell phone market, the introduction of new devices may give Blackberry the chance to become the comeback kid of 2013 or slip further into obscurity.
blackberry
devices
introduction
obscurity
relevance
Will the Metallica table help pinball “ride the lightning” to relevance?
Stern's new offering hopes to extend pinball past the "End of the Line"
metallica
relevance
stern