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The Role of Ruby on Rails

Tuesday, 18 February 2014 by SEO'Brien

Austin, Texas is a hotbed of mobile and traditional software development, startups, and Rails shops, and given my history in Silicon Valley, where Ruby on Rails has been the framework of choice for years, I wanted to find out from Lance Vaughn, CEO of CabForward, what makes Ruby on Rails in Austin. Why CabForward? The

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Austin is eCommerce

Wednesday, 15 January 2014 by SEO'Brien

Leave it to me to spend 14 hours in Dallas on the very day that 3 of my favorite industries crush capital… * Social marketing, with $14M through Bessemer Venture Partners and Harrison Metal Capital to Main Street Hub * WordPress, by way of $15M via North Bridge Growth Equity in WPEngine * eCommerce, as Volusion wraps up $35M with Silicon Valley Bank Though, I’m glad

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The Internet of Everything

Thursday, 09 January 2014 by SEO'Brien

Before the holiday and the end of 2013, I had the distinct honor of joining dozens of San Antonio CEOs and Texas CEO Magazine in spending an hour with Smart Grid Pioneer and author of The Advanced Smart Grid, Andres Carvallo. Why you might ask; if you know me professionally, you know that energy and

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Austin Startup Blogs & Press

Wednesday, 28 August 2013 by SEO'Brien

With the tremendous influx of innovators, talent, and capital to Austin’s startup community, I’m increasingly asked how/where to keep tabs on what’s going on. That is, as someone new or moving to Austin, or as an outsider wondering what all the hubbub is about, where does one turn to keep a pulse on things? Let’s

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Published in Austin, Blog, Industry, Startups

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SXSW Panels are Coming!

Tuesday, 20 August 2013 by SEO'Brien

On one hand, this, not ACL nor SXSW itself, but this, is my favorite time of year living in Austin. The time of year when the panel selections for the next SXSW have been opened to the public; revealing the thoughts, trends, and ideas bubbling around the heads of the brilliant and creative minds of

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What is this Real-Time Marketing of Which You Speak?

Thursday, 20 June 2013 by SEO'Brien

The pace at which business is moving is now; really, you’re already behind. In the brief second it took you to read that very statement, I’ve cost you (an opportunity cost granted) the time to focus on something else, relevant to your business, happening, right now. We’ve always been pretty capable of dealing with those

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RISE to the Occasion

Tuesday, 14 May 2013 by SEO'Brien

RISE Austin kicked off yesterday and proves, once again, to be one of the pivotal events in Austin’s entrepreneurial economy. On the heels of President Obama’s visit to Austin, the timing of RISE is an intriguing contrast to the President’s goal of learning what makes Austin so incredible and successful. While he and the world

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