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
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
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
I was delighted to see that our 2012 accelerator graduate, RaiseMore, (whom we’ve written about before!) has launched a new app builder to help non-profit events build apps for coordination and fundraising directly from the RaiseMore website: They’ve also launched a new video telling their
TractionTank’s launch was featured in TechCocktail today in a story written by Will Schmidt (@WJS1988) From the story: “Why is it so difficult to pick great startups out of the crowd? I was recently asked this question by the entrepreneurial duo Kraettli Epperson and Eric Morrow. You
Why is it so difficult to pick great startups out of the crowd? The truth is that picking the startups that will succeed is difficult even for the most qualified groups, including accelerators, angel investors, crowdfunders and venture capital firms. Why? Most investors rely on
We haven’t posted any updates about SIVI recently, but they’ve been busy! SIVI is the company founded by Ashok Kamal as CEO and Nik Seet as CTO, that completed the VentureSpur accelerator in 2013. Both Ashok and Nik are serial entrepreneurs with multiple prior successes under
As a part of their most recent $1.5MM from a group of angel investors and 500 Startups’ Dave McClure, ViewMarket and new subsidiary, CultureMap, have announced a plan to place iBeacons into restaurants and retailers throughout the US. The iBeacons will record data and