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I got an invitation to attend an event called DFW Unplugged. Details from the Eventbrite site:
DFW is full of some of the most innovative and creative individuals and the most amazing ideas.  Come celebrate those people and ideas as we hear from those who are making DFW more vibrant and creative for [...]

Last month my father’s old boss and billionaire, Paul Allen, announced he was going to give away the majority of his $13.5 billion net worth to charity. Kudos for Paul! When Paul and Bill co-founded Microsoft I wonder if they had any idea how big an impact their company and the resulting wealth would have [...]

Just last week I wrote a post titled, “Dun & Bradstreet Class Action Lawsuit?” where I explain how D&B explained to other businesses that our company had a “High risk of severe financial stress of the next 12 months”. Here is what our potential customers saw:

This week, after I wrote the post, D&B has ‘updated’ [...]

Have you ever heard of a company called Dun & Bradstreet? They are ’sort’ of like Experian for businesses – supposedly helping their subscribers to make credit decisions about suppliers. Recently a potential client of one of our company’s ran a D&B report on our company. The score came back very low and the company [...]

Austin-based Capital Factory accelerator program – their second annual Demo Day is coming up on Wednesday, September 8th As the culmination of a ten-week technology accelerator program this summer, Capital Factory’s Demo Day will provide the five portfolio start-ups with the opportunity to launch their business concept to the world and specifically, to attending investors, [...]

I’ll have to admit I am guilty of this one. When I raised my first round for my first startup I immediately bought a Porsche. I used my own money, but it sent the wrong message to my wife, investors, partners, employees, customers and vendors. It is hard to negotiate salary with prospective employees when [...]

Small startup happy hour at CoHabitat tonight at 6PM http://cot.ag/aesQpi Our big startup happy hour event is in Oct: http://bit.ly/anRLzT.

Just a quick note about the Big in Japan team’s latest milestone. Yesterday they released the iOS4 compatible barcode scanner SDK for developers. If you are a developer who has already used our SDK in your app to scan barcodes or you are a developer thinking about using our SDK [...]