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This week, Andy is joined by Travis and Sam at Happy Cog Austin for Episode 72. Thanks Happy Cog! Show Notes 1:05 HOUSE OF CARDS! 3:00 Spiceworks raises another round of $57m 3:15 Capital Factory + Floodgate + Silverton = $150,000 5:40 Austin #1 most romantic city by HuffPo 6:10 Austin in top 10 list for best towns for singles 7:00 SXSW dribbble meet-up announced! RSVP ASAP! Events Digital PM summit: Feb 22 FU Weekend: Feb 21–23 Texas Bitcoin Conf Mar 5–6 Right before the show. Photo by Alison Harshbarger of Happy Cog Austin Editing by Michael Way. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes & dudettes!

In 2014, we’re recording every 2nd and 4th Friday. Last week was our second show but we flubbed the release of the January 17 recording so we rolled that content into last week’s episode. Andy and Travis spend episode 71 recapping the happenings in Austin from the past couple months. News: Austin Startup Games – Heard that Spanning cleaned up. Andy was completely wrong … Sparefoot actually won the gold. Berate him via twitter. Developer Evangelism – Keith Casey’s experience Damon’s intro to the Austin startup scene Austin reaching capacity for SXSW  permits Ben Brown’s Lunch Hack and LunchBot:  http://eat.xoxco.com Josh Baer says he’ll fund your consumer startup Blackboard acquired MyEdu Pingboard secures 1.5 million Outbox closed its doors – Junk mail survives — new stealth pivot WP Engine got 15 million - R/GA rebranded them Why Scaling a Company is Harder than it Looks (Jason Cohen, @asmartbear) “scale causes rare events to become regular.” Jobs: Everyone is hiring. Let us know what you’re looking for and we’ll help connect you. Upcoming Conferences and Events: Hackentine’s Day – February 8 FinishUp Weekend – February 21-23 Digital PM summit – February 22 We’re already prepping for SXSW — what should we be paying attention to?  Good parties, food, other events?  Let us know. Five-star ratings on iTunes will get shout outs on the next show! Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!  

In an effort to get one more show out the door before 2014, Dave and Andy recap Austin’s Startup Weekend that took place November 22-24 at Tech Ranch. Show Notes Austin Startup Weekend - 13 teams presented at the end of the event. Potlucky Phone Sting LiveHits – 2nd runner up At The Door – 2nd place – video demo APIEngine – winner IBM to hire 1,000 designers by 2018. Want help connecting with Austin’s vibrant community? Tweet at us and tell us a bit about yourself. Austin Startup Weekend logo by Ryan Weaver of Sputnik Creative. Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!  

This week, intern Michael Way recaps everything that went down at Austin Startup Week. He is joined by Andy, Sam, and new dad Dave! Show Notes 3:27 Latest News: ATX Startup Crawl 9:17 Startup Crawl App 10:41 Some pictures from ATX Startup Crawl by Adam McCombs 11:38 Mass Relevance gets access to Facebooks API 11:50 Element Creative and SpaceCraft to Merge 11:50 Spacecraft 12:06 Dell goes private 12:18 Hurt & Harbuck have disbanded 18:00 WP Engine 20:13 Austin Startup Weekend November 22-24 at Tech Ranch 21:07 Boxer Inc raises a bunch of money 22:38 7 Promising Austin Startups from capital Factory’s Demo Day 22:38 Mr. Dad App 25:06 Capital Factory is expanding their investing 27:00 Austin Chamber of commerce started a “Startup “A” List” 30:22 Austin VS The World 30:45 Dave files a bug report on Github about the Government Shutdown, sparks awesomeness. 34:54 Dave’s post So I trolled The White House 39:22 Send us your job openings, Austin 40:05 Co-funder of Reddit is coming to austin 40:24 Maker’s Square Career Day on November 7th 41:15 Refresh San Marcos Meetup, November 5th at 7pm 41:26 Taecho Group 41:38 Texas State Communication Design Program 41:46 Texas State STAR Park 42:53 SXSW announces 2014 interactive lineup 43:30 Godaddy bought Media Temple, Brad Smith buys Virb back from Godaddy 44:30 Where do you get your Austin news? Let us know Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!  

This week we have a covert chat with Josh Baer about the third annual Austin Startup Week. Listen to find out what his “God button” is and who his favorite Austin startups are. Interview Notes Intro to the Austin Startup Scene slides form the 9/16/13 event Austin Startup Week Calendar Austin Startup Week Crawl 2013 (Must RSVP) TechStars is now in Austin Nuve anti-theft start-up Startup News DreamIt Ventures (Austin applications due soon) Austin vs The World British Airways to fly directly to Austin in 2014 Job Openings Dropbox is opening an office and hiring for a lot of positions. Upcoming Meetups Girl Develop It Austin’s Diving Deeper into HTML5 and CSS3 Upcoming Conferences An Event Apart: Austin – September 30 – October 2 Editing by Aaron Dowd. Music by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!  

We gathered the crew before the last Refresh to catch up on Austin’s latest happenings. Dave introduces a new segment, “Austin vs The World” and we fire another intern. Recorded live on August 13, 2013. Shout out to our audio surgeon, Aaron Dowd for turning this one around quickly and saving us so much time. Check out his new podcast with Sean McCabe and drop him a line if you could use his skills AaronDowd.com Startup News Infochimps acquired by IT powerhouse CSC TechStars kicked off in Austin with their first cohort. First event set for Monday, August 19. RSVP Austin Startup Week is coming up October 7-11. New site by Taecho Group.  Supermechanical launches Range, a smart thermometer that plugs into your iPhone for precise monitoring. Austin vs The World Mike Fielden from Houston defends Houston, provides no evidence #trolololol. Welch Avenue, a podcast about the startup scene in Des Moines, IA, builds a welcome page inspired by the Web Show. Breakfast tacos, we have them. Favorites: Michael, Dave, Travis. What are yours? According to Entrepreneur, Elon Musk’s new Hyperloop may be built in Texas first due to less regulation and cheaper costs. Job Openings Director of Finance at the Texas Tribune. Product Manager/SCRUM Master at Four Kitchens. Dropbox is opening an office and hiring for a lot of positions. Upcoming Meetups MakerSquare Career Day at Capital Factory - August 16 @ 5:30pm Creative Mornings w/ Michael McDaniel – August 20 @ 9am Upcoming Conferences Digital Biz Summit - August 20 jQuery Conference: Austin - September 10 – 11 An Event Apart: Austin – September 30 – October 2 Music provided by Goodfield. Thanks dudes!  

We finally got the whole team together at the Refresh Austin: Summer Party. Recorded live on July 30, 2013. Dave announces his mayorship of Curaçao, Sam’s homeland, and sings the new national anthem. The Gowalla exodus from Facebook to Dropbox Torchy’s secret menu Texas Tribune covers Wendy Davis’ HB1 Filibuster and compiles images Louis Black calls out Texas with a great big “F*ck you!” Upcoming Events: An Event Apart | September 30 – October 2 | register here jQuery Conference: Austin | September 10-11 | register here Girl Develop It: Austin MakerSquare is Austin’s answer to The Starter League and General Assembly. We chat a bit about the program and the team behind it. @beaktor is the guy to know for dim sum in Austin. Austin in the News What is the best damn city? Austin ranks as the No. 1 place to launch your business, according to a new ranking by GoodApril, a San Francisco-based tax-planning startup Austin families spend on average $878 a month putting costs higher than places like San Francisco, Nashville, Seattle and Portland We’re back on twitter! @ATXwebshow

Travis, Sam, and Dave catch up on presidents and hackathons that have swept through town recently. President Obama visits Capital Factory Coca-Cola: Why Austin sits atop the next wave of startup hubs Hackathons TechCrunch Meetup Angel Hack ATX ATX Hackathon for Change Keep Austin Fed Hackathon wiki ATX Web Show T-Shirts available from Cotton Bureau Drupal Camp + Web Leadership next week Photo courtesy of @owiber

This week Travis sits down with Sam Kapila, teacher of Responsive Web Design and Typography at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. That’s just south of Austin for you out-of-towners. They talk about the modern web, new Adobe software, and a bunch more. Show Notes Texas State University Texas State Communication Design Program Adobe Creative Cloud About Sam Kapila samkapila.com Follow @samkap on Twitter

Another Catchupisode™. Reigning victorious over Houston, yet again, Travis and Dave kick off this show apologizing to a few other cities and then recap some of the conferences and big events that have rolled through town recently with a heavy focus on journalism. Travis apologizes to Boston Houston Web Show == Not a thing TXJS Recap Creative Mornings ATX Recap Austin Kleon’s Talk ISOJ Trei Burndrett (Vox @clockwerks) Michael Donohoe (qz.com @donohoe) Miranda Mulligan (Knight Lab/Boston Globe @jmm) May Meetups Artifact Conference http://artifactconf.com/ Future Shows: - 4/30: Live recording at the Gingerman

This week Travis and Dave drink and do a live a show at the Ginger Man, Austin’s Tech Hub. Exciting news since the last episode, Kim Jong Un wants to nuke Austin and we get Google Fiber. The News: Kim Jong Un destroying Austin. #whyaustin on twitter. Google Fiber - http://www.statesman.com/news/business/its-official-austin-getting-super-fast-google-fibe/nXG3g/ - https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/ The State of Entreprenuership in Austin - http://lucky7.io/post/the-state-of-tech-entrepreneurship-in-austin Burning Out by Robert Banh - http://robertbanh.com/ Week in Austin Ratings - 10 Most Overrated Cities to Visit - Houston more walkable???!?! Good luck with that. Seriously its humid as hell. TX.JS - http://texasjavascript.com - http://artifactconf.com

This week we discuss the recent Pando Daily article which critiques Austin’s “intensity” and vis á vis why we’ll never be successful as a startup town. We’re also joined by former webshow intern Michael Way from the Taecho Group. Pando Daily: Will the Austin startup ecosystem ever live up to its promise? Austin Gunter: What’s the difference between Austin and San Francisco? Economist: Let’s all be Texas #RWD at TX State Classes and conferences Young Coders One of the instructors is Barbara Shaurette (@bshaurette) — she runs @PyLadiesATX HTML5 Roadshow April 15th TX.JS May 13-15 Artifact Conf Texas Monthly’s new BBQ Editor @BBQsnob

Back with a groggy post-SXSW episode. We spend this episode recounting the best of SXSW 2013 from our limited, but professional, perspective. TX Drought Jokes! TexasTribune.org Reservoir Tracker 1st Annual Post-SXSW Awards Ceremony! Non-badged Awards Lots of awesome social events ATX Startup Crawl Best hallway party: Odoro Best ownership of a whole building floor: Mass Relevance Best boozes: Black Locust/Home Depot Innovation Labs Best food: Spanning (via hearsay) Best overall startup: Outbox ATX Startup Craw App Best kickoff lunch party: Refresh Austin Kickoff Lunch Best crashed party: Twilio + StartupBus Best opening night party: MS/Gamesalad Best Saturday party: Dribbble Best Sunday party: OpenWebSXSW Best Trailer Food Theme of all of the best parties: kept it low key, away from all the craziness Partying like it was 1997 Badged Awards Best in Tracks: “Responsive Track” Best panel: #WYSIWYS Best venue: Ginger Man — Rainy St and Easy Tiger were distracting people and keeping them away, so it stayed pretty relaxed every night.

This week we’re joined again by Andy Keil to catch up on what got finished at the successful FinishUp Weekend. We also mentally prepare for the SXSW behemoth. People who finished: Colin Young (Polymathic) – Zipper Snapper John Kestner (Supermechanical) – Productivity Quantifier Brandon Weiss (Anti-pattern) + Andre Jurgensen (Handsome) – Arrival.io Jason Weaver (Happy Cog) - FlexNav Jquery plugin for responsive menus Alex Mangini (Thesis Theme) – LifeNotion.co Thomas Frank (CollegeInfoGeek) – iPhone app (taught himself w/ Treehouse collab) Josh Long (Treehouse/Execute) – Jenius Book Becky Murphy (I’d Rather Be Short/Chipper Things) – Book cover + This Must Be The Fan Bushra Mahmood (XOXCO) – Brass & Bark for Pete Bolema Marc Mapes (Tech Ranch) – FoTacts Jeff Finley (Go Media) – WMCFest Site + 2 songs John T Meyer (Lemon.ly) – Where The Hell Is Wall Drug? Scott Johns (Lemon.ly) – Thankstagram Ben Brown (XOXCO/Packa.gr) – Blog post about utilizing “Your Back Catalog“ Travis Swicegood (Texas Tribune) Mohammed Gaber + team (United) – Connect5 Gabe Ragland (ImgFave) – Redesign Josh Matz (SpringBox) – Discovery tool (built in 2 days) Lucy Hewett (photographer) – Tiffany Tucker: Fatshopaholic.com video Patrick Lu (RGB.io) – RGB.IO = Portfolio site connected to Flickr Keith Casey (Twilio) – Google Voice Replacement

In Control Conference Environment for Humans Ben Brown Web Dev and Product Designer Founder of XOXCO Deep Leap http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kunpve8-h-U Consumating.com Make Pixel Art http://makepixelart.com/ Breakpoints https://github.com/xoxco/breakpoints Aware.js https://github.com/xoxco/awarejs Your Back Catalog: http://notes.xoxco.com/post/44067502454/your-back-catalog Packa.gr http://xoxco.com/packagr/ BBQ Drama!! @sparkycollier @jsm_meat @louiemuellerbbq We can discuss peace once John first returns $250k missing from this company. Where is it, John? — Louie Mueller BBQ (@LouieMuellerBBQ) February 24, 2013 Meat Security Austin Dribbble SXSW Meetup @SXSWpartyzzzzz: https://twitter.com/SXSWpartyzzzzz SXSW #homeroom

Travis sits down with Joe McCann, who is currently Mobile Architect at Bazaarvoice and on the board at The Node Firm. Austin JS Open Web SXSW What’s the start of all of these epic parties? Reconstvct.com StayIdle.com Purple Margarita Challenge? Baby A’s

Recorded live at the Omni Bar before Refresh Austin. We were joined by Gene Crawford and Giovanni DiFeterici of the South Carolina based Unmatched Style. There were in town to speak at Refresh Austin and scope out the local scene.  We were also joined by Keith Casey of Twilio who is a key player in the Austin meetup scene. Unmatched Style Period Three Artifact Conference Keith Casey http://caseysoftware.com/ @CaseySoftware Meetups Austin Python Austin PHP Austin JavaScript Conferences Product Camp Austin Hackathons hacks/hackers hackathon FU Weekend Civic Hackday SXSW Open Web Party ATX Dribbble Party

This week we’re joined by Andy Keil talking about Finish Up Weekend, a weekend devoted executing and finishing up that side project. We also recap the completely sold out HTML5.tx Conference held here in Austin, TX. Handsome HTML5.tx Backbone is awesome! Socket.io Lots of offline Lots of HTML5 goodies New APIs on Sunday with @pamelafox Finish Up Weekend Feb 22-24, 2013 http://fuweekend.com/ @fuweekend Josh Long @joshlong Execute Book Contact andy@handsome.is @alwaysunday

Excited to have Greg Story, President of Happy Cog, on the show. Happy Cog is one of the world’s premier web design firms and they have established an outfit here in Austin, Texas. We chat with Greg about the history of Airbag, Happy Cog, and what were the eventual factors that lead to the big move to Austin. Happy Cog Airbag Industries A List Apart An Event Apart Hiring a Front End Developer Follow Greg Storey on Twitter @BrilliantCrank @ATXDribbble (Meetup)

We’re back for the 25th time! Another unintended hiatus has sparked the need to do another show where we discuss the past 2 months as well as various upcoming events and conferences around town. Startup news! Mass Relevance finally got downtown! Black Locus sold! Union Metrics ?? Firefox OS Mozilla team was in town Awesome looking stuff New phones announced today (no pricing) Meetup News Refresh is doing two meetups a month Capitol Factory is awesome, harder to socialize Monthly #beersummit to socialize only https://twitter.com/kimloop/status/293864490246758400 Rails Girls ATX pyLadies New Learning Python meetup Shit is crowded Conferences HTML5.tx in in two weekends Tickets still available Stupid cheap It’s in Austin! Data Day Texas http://datadaytexas.com/ Tickets are cheaper until Feb 5th SXSW is on the horizon… Parties already starting to RSVP