I had a great time serving on the first panel of the day, Accelerator Panel: Driving Early Stage Startups in Texas, at the 12th annual Information Technology and Web Venture Forum at Rice University on December 11th. My fellow panelists included a Who’s Who of the
I like this new post from the Makeshift startup studio blog: Startup Studios. Are they a thing? Why yes, they are! Just take a look at JumpPhase Ventures, if you have any doubt. I’m very glad to see this model getting some love. This is
JumpPhase Ventures was featured in the Journal Record, the primary business publication of Oklahoma City. The article focused on JumpPhase Ventures’ work as the producer of the LaunchOklahoma venture accelerator and on this year’s standout startup company, vakargo, which is building a peer-to-peer marketplace for
Our 2014 featured company, vakargo, was featured in the Journal Record’s most recent Innovators article. The article highlights vakargo’s most recent investment round news and updates on expectations for the release of their mobile beta release this coming February! Read the article for these exciting
Our 2014 accelerator program has ended this year with an investor dinner featuring Oklahoma startup vakargo. The vakargo team made a trip back to Oklahoma from California, where they have been working with the Silicon Valley Womens’ Startup Lab. Vakargo presented attendees with new information on
Our 2014 LaunchOklahoma accelerator program has ended this year with an investor dinner featuring Oklahoma startup vakargo. The vakargo team made a trip back to Oklahoma from California, where they have been working with the Silicon Valley Womens’ Startup Lab to present attendees with updates
I’ll be serving as a panelist on the Accelerator Panel on the main stage at next week’s 2014 IT and Web Venture Forum, organized by the Rice Alliance at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I’m looking forward to discussing current trends in accelerator development and
I recently attended the WBToi conference in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Oct. 29th through 30th, which I posted about previously (WBToi Open Innovation forum in Stillwater starts today!). This conference was put on by the World’s Best Technologies organization, which puts on numerous annual events to showcase the
Never thought I’d say this, but I love my new BlackBerry. Yes, I bought a BlackBerry phone. Who does that? Me, I guess. I needed something with a QWERTY keyboard. I’m in meetings, conferences and on the road a lot of the time and basically
Two Oklahoma startups, and graduates of the LaunchOklahoma Accelerator program, went abroad last week to present at the Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland. The two teams shared their excitement with us regarding their experiences at the summit: Vakargo presented their online network and shipping platform