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I was excited to announce this week that my startup OtherInbox has been acquired by a company from New York called Return Path. This is a great thing for my team, my investors, and for me. I hope it's a great thing for Austin too. I'm staying on as CEO of OIB and we are planning to double the size of our Austin office in 2012.
This week I also met some incredible entrepreneurs at office hours. Tom Giesberg came in and showed me a tablet to help people communicate who are in a hospital bed and can't talk. Stacy Zoern of Community Cars told me about her inexpensive electric cars designed for use by someone in a wheel chair. Last week Stephen Straus showed me these magnets that had magical properties that I wouldn't have believed if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes.
This week is the first class of 1 Semester Startup at the University of Texas. We're looking for experienced entrepreneurs, engineers, marketers, lawyers, and other skills to be mentors for the students. If you're interested in volunteering 1 hour per week please reply to this email.
SXSW ramp up is in full swing. I'm planning on doing another Austin Startup Crawl, attending Startup America, lots of mentoring sessions, a co-founder meetup, organizing a panel about elevator pitches, and hanging with Startup Bus. I hope to see you there!
One of the most common requests I get is for help finding a co-founder. Don't miss the Co-founders Meetup this week. This is one of your best opportunities to meet other entrepreneurs to work with.
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What's going on this week?
When: Tuesday, 1/17 from 7:30-9:00pm
Where: Frog design – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
This month we have a special guest flying in from New York City – the CTO and co-founder of Nodejitsu, Paolo Fragemeni. Paolo, a solid computer programmer and veteran hacker has written loads of node.js code including the a significant portion dedicated to the node.js framework, Flatiron. Node.js. What is it?!! How does it work?!!
When: Tuesday 1/17 1pm
Where: HubAustin 4930 S. Congress Ave Ste 307
The focus for this free workshop will be to get an overview of the basic features and functionality of the Twilio platform; send, receive, and respond SMS messages; place, receive, and respond to phone calls; and use Twilio Client to use your browser to place and receive phone calls.
When: Wednesday, 1/18 at 7:00 PM
Where: Cospace, 911 W Anderson Lane #203
This month we'll be hearing from Michael Trevino, who will discuss the recent relaunch of the UT System websites (in Drupal of course).
When: Tuesday 1/17 from 7:30-9:30
Where: Cospace, 911 W Anderson Lane #203
Matthew Swain give us an introduction to keeping our environment dependencies managed using Ruby with Chef. After the presentation we'll be pairing off to work through a brand newcode kata. Be sure to bring your laptop!
Co-Founders Wanted
When: Thursday 1/19 at 6:30pm
This meetup is back with its regular format: 10 speaking slots available (3 minutes each) for startups looking for co-founders or looking to hire developers/designers. Find a startup to join here!
When: Thursday 1/19 at 9am
Where: Norris Conference Center 2525 West Anderson Lane
CodeWorks ’11 is a one day, single-track conference created specifically for PHP developers. Join local developers for a full day of learning and networking as php|architect continues the tradition of bringing the conference experience to you. No airport security lines, no bad hotel food and you get to sleep in your own bed.
Top Upcoming Events
1/23/2012 Apple Tech Talk
2/15/2012 Mongo Day Austin
3/10/2012 SXSW Interactive
3/14/2012 Austin Startup Bus
3/30/2012 Austin Startup Weekend
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