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Entre to the Internet; Marketing for Startups

Thursday, 17 July 2014 by SEO'Brien

Thanks to the incredible startup program at Houston’s Rice University, I’ve had a chance to update a popular, but out of date, post about Startup Marketing. In the process, I had a chance to meet the exceptional entrepreneurs in this year’s Owlspark program. While not too dissimilar from that startup marketing post, this update touches

Published in Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Insights / Research, Search, Social Media, Startups, Vendors / Agencies, Web Design

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Work, Live, and Play in a Futuristic Phoenix

Tuesday, 17 June 2014 by SEO'Brien

The result of a collaboration between Arizona State University’s (my alma mater by the way) Center for Nanotechnology in Society and The Design School at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Phoenix, AZ is exploring how life in the Valley may look, decades from now. Darren Petricci, achitect and professor in the Design

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Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups

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The Ancient Startup Communities of Greece and Rome

Wednesday, 16 April 2014 by SEO'Brien

Recently, I had the honor of addressing a group of investors from Shenzhen, China, exploring opportunities in Texas and asking the question, why? Why here? Why Texas? Why Austin? Fostered by DB Business Group (a multi-sector global business development group), and a program called Invest Austin, a veteran of Silicon Valley like myself can’t help

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Published in Austin, Industry, Startups

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The Social Intelligence Industry is in Austin

Wednesday, 19 February 2014 by SEO'Brien

A short time ago, I started exploring the significance of industry on an economy; the role that it plays in creating awareness of, drawing talent to, engaging capital on behalf of, and focusing a community around, innovation and entrepreneurship. If you’ve read here before, you know I’m something of a Druckerist, a student of Peter

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Published in eCommerce, Industry, Startups

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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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Published in Austin, eCommerce, Industry, Startups

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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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Published in Advertising, Industry, Insights / Research, Startups

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