Two of my favorite companies, OrderMyGear and CultureMap, have been named among the hottest startups in Dallas. Both are graduates of our 2013 venture accelerator and seed fund, VentureSpur II, and have been growing steadily since fundraising and graduation. Check out the new listings by Common
As some of you probably know, I embarked on a new endeavor recently, involving NASA and the co-founding of a new startup called Vigilant Aerospace Systems. I’ll be sharing blog posts from this new startup’s site here, so that TechVentureGeek readers can follow along. Here
An article I wrote about what it is like to be an Oklahoma entrepreneur was recently published by the Octane Blog, the official blog of the national Entrepreneur’s Organization. From the editor’s intro to the post: Family heritage and the physical spaces in which we
This post is based on a presentation I made to students in the CCEW Program at the University of Oklahoma about how to launch and develop and entrepreneurial career. Here’s that presentation, with a few extra notes. Enjoy! 1. Work with startups at all costs.
There are several places to try. LinkedIn would be my #1. Do a search for CEOs and find people who have recently exited. As a second choice, I’ve also seen industry-specific conferences used as a great place to find executives who are highly engaged in
I’ve answered a couple of questions recently on Quora that I thought deserved to be shared here on the blog: Is it important to consider exposure to copying when considering which accelerator to go for? Yes, it is: The good accelerators get you lots of
Oklahoma startups finally have a comprehensive resource directory! We have just launched StartupOK.com. This resource directory has been a personal project of mine for the past several years. Recently, I decided to devote a little more effort to updating and revamping the directory to provide Oklahoma
Recently, I traveled to San Francisco and hosted a Happy Hour event where I had the opportunity to visit with some local startup entrepreneurs from the area and talk about the TractionTank online accelerator. I enjoyed meeting everyone that attended the TractionTank premiere Happy Hour event at The
The Open Containers Initiative announced (Community Rallies Behind Open Container Initiative) in late July that 14 new companies had joined the initiative and that Docker had donated their base container format as a starting point for the standard. Supporters of the initiative include AT&T, Oracle, Twitter,
Vakargo, the online peer-to-peer shipping marketplace for international packages, the featured company from our 2014 LaunchOklahoma accelerator program and one of the companies I’m advising on a regular basis, has been nominated as a 2015 Journal Record Innovator of the Year! Read the full