Our partnership announcement with The 404 co-working offices was featured in Tech Cocktail, a national blog for startups, entrepreneurs and technology. “We’ve seen a bunch of new startup markets over the last year, and Oklahoma City is dying to get a piece of the action. In
I loved this article from Mashable, yesterday: 8 Surging Startup Industries to Watch. I agree that these 8 are the big ones where we’re likely to see a lot of innovation and new products and services over the next 5 years. I especially love this list because several
OK. I’m an angel investor, so I can poke fun… This is just a bit of Monday morning humor for you. Don’t take this post too seriously. Not every angel investor means these things when they say these things. But some of them do, so
A quick thought for a Saturday: The reality is that seed and angel investors are not investing in your startup. What!? They’re not really just looking at your market space, your business plan, your pitch, your business model, your technology, your marketing plan and your
I don’t have a lot to add on this, except to say, duh! $2100 for a desktop CNC-type 3D fab unit? Take a solid chunk of plastic or metal, and let this thing whittle it down into an installation-ready part, as hard as any other
NFC stands for Near Field Communiciation and it is a new wireless standard to allow mobile devices, like phones, to instantly interact with unpowered NFC “tags” that can be placed, stuck, hung or otherwise attached to things. When you wave your device near the tag,
We are excited to announce our partnership with The 404 Co-working Office in Oklahoma City. Read our official press announcement below for more information! View and download the full announcement here: Press Announcement – LaunchOklahoma Announces partnership with the 404 – June 17 2014 [PDF] LaunchOklahoma
Here’s a great post-mortem post by Brett Martin, former CEO of startup Sonar, shared with me by a friend . This post focuses how to navigate the crazy market and capital signals your startup will receive through the founding, funding and growth process. Some signals are true and
My latest post at the LaunchOklahoma blog: Crossing the finish line: What does it really take to get admitted? Our job as accelerator managers is absolutely, 100%, the selection of startups with great potential. This is our first and most important job. We could do
As we head into the final stretch of the selection process for our 2014 venture acceleration program, I’ve been giving some thought to what makes a company attractive to accelerators (and angel investors and VCs, a little further down the line). Our job