Last edit – July 1
Some of these folks I’ve met and some I have not… now to have meetings with them regarding the development of Austin’s startup community, the Conjunctured coworking space, the plan for a Startup District, etc.
Entrepreneurs/invest
- Brett Hurt from Bazaarvoice
- bad asses Roy and Bertrand Sosa – http://www.mpowerlabs.com
- Gary Farmer, President of Heritage Title Company of Austin, was named “Austinite of the Yearâ€
- Jeffrey Dachis – you should know who this guy is. but he’s new to austin as i understand it
- Eugene Sepulveda – http://www.givetoaustin.org/about/staff.html
- everyone at http://actonmba.com – i freekin love what they are doing, specifically Steven Tomlinson & Jeff Sandefer
- Hank Weghorst of formerly of Troux, per this article where he says he wants to have a microfund in austin
- Mike Maples, jr. –
- Harvey Ring
- Andrew Busey – Pluck, Challenge Games
- Joshua Baer – http://www.austinpreneur.com/
- FiveRuns – Todd Barr for sure, Olivier Thierry would be awesome
- Hall Martin – pretty sure he get’s it; and cares about austin | Jamie Rhodes
- Austin Ventures - Gerald Zhou for sure / Tom Ball
- Rudy Garza of G-51 – mediatruck?
- John Hime – austin angel, met at demo party, want to talk with more
- Bryan Menell – http://www.austinstartup.com/ http://www.fusionlearningsystems.com/
- Bryan Jones – http://moximity.com/
Gov types
- Dawanna dukes – starte rep for the district that covers east austin
- Sheral cole – councel. east side revitalization process
- Lee Leffingwell, Council Member Place 1
- Mayor Will Wynn – Done
- Rosalinda Jalifi – economic growth and redevelopment services, small business development program
- Brewster McCracken – http://www.brewstermccracken.org/
- Eve Richter – Economic Development
Edu/othr
- William Powers – President of UT http://www.utexas.edu/law/faculty/profile.php?id=wpowers
- tim hayden – http://gpexperience.com/
- Joel Surface – Director, Clean Energy Incubator
- Randi bakes from austech
- Alisha Ring, http://www.austintechnologycouncil.org
- John Sibely Butler – http://www.ic2.org/main.php?a=5&s=46
- Sam Decker – http://decker.typepad.com/ thanks for finding me Sam
- John Lebkowsky – http://weblogsky.com
- William Hurley – http://whurley.com
- People at the Austin Technology Council – gotten to know Soozie
- Lori Hawkins – statesman
- bobby ray inman – former head of NSA, angel investor in Dell and Cisco, 1st president of Sematech, founder of Gefinor Ventures
- Dr. Cunningham, both of em
- Pike Powers
- All UT entrepreneurship clubs
more to come! i’m past my bed time to get 6hrs… more politicos, angels, law, realestate … need to look at old business cards
Damon Clinkscales 9:53 pm on April 28, 2008 Permalink |
I like the fact that you’ve published this big list. I’d suggest you use a strikethrough as you meet with each person and update the blog post accordingingly. That way, we can follow your progres.
Damon Clinkscales 9:53 pm on April 28, 2008 Permalink |
I like the fact that you've published this big list. I'd suggest you use a strikethrough as you meet with each person and update the blog post accordingingly. That way, we can follow your progres.
John Erik 1:49 am on April 29, 2008 Permalink |
will do Damon.
strike one: the mayor. :)
John Erik 1:49 am on April 29, 2008 Permalink |
will do Damon.
strike one: the mayor. :)