Category: Austin
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Gotta Catch ‘Em All: 10 Mobile Gaming Startups in the South
Photo credit: iMore If words like “Lure Modules,” “Stardust,” and “Bulbasaur” come up in regular conversation, either your friends are dehydrated, or you know firsthand the rapid and widespread rise of Pokemon Go. According to Apple, the game had more downloads in its first week than any other app in history. And while it might…
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14 Unique Workplaces for Digital Nomads in the South
More and more people are ditching the traditional office environment to work remotely or launch businesses on their own. If you subscribe to the digital nomad lifestyle, you could certainly work from home or join one of the many co-working spaces popping up around the country, but what happens when your mailman (or cat) gets…
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10 Southern Startups Helping Parents Make This the Best Summer Yet
It’s officially summer, and while kids rejoice to the raucous chants of Alice Cooper, parents are feeling the heat as they balance normal adult life with three months’ worth of unoccupied youngsters. Thanks to some innovative Southerners, though, there is hope! These 10 startups have new and easy ways to keep your kids entertained, educated,…
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Essential Resources for Female Founders in the South
If you’ve been on Twitter or Facebook this week, you probably caught some clips of this week’s United#StateOfWomen Summit. The daylong event celebrated what’s already been done by and for women, and took a collective pulse check on our unfinished business. Not surprisingly, one of the key gender equality issues discussed was entrepreneurship and innovation.…
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11 Southern Startups That Will Save Your Summer Travel
When you think of the travel industry, words like “convenience,” “speed,” and “transparency” probably aren’t the first that come to mind. Perhaps your memory wanders to a TSA agent testing your emotional stability, a thrilling day spent in a rental car lobby, or forking out extra dough for service fees and taxes you didn’t even…
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Bet Your Bottom Dollar on These Nine Southern FinTech Startups
We live in a world where techie turns of phrase like “You can Venmo me” and “I get paid in Bitcoin” are becoming more colloquial by the minute, and where the folks who work in finance aren’t just suit-wearing bankers or Wall Street execs; they’re hoodie-cloaked entrepreneurs giving the industry a run for its money.…
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Eight Southern Startups Getting Real with Virtual Reality
Virtual reality seemed to be top of mind at this year’s DIG SOUTH Interactive Festival. Speakers including Gary Vaynerchuk and Eric Bowman were fired up about VR, both making predictions about how fast (or slow) the technology will be adopted. Goldman Sachs estimates the virtual and augmented reality market could reach $80B by 2025 (and…
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5 Big DIG Takeaways From SXSW Interactive
Our team traveled to Austin last week for South by Southwest Interactive. We caught cool product demos, startup pitches, and sessions with some thought-provoking speakers (you can see photos from our trip on our Facebook page here)! Now that we’ve had a few days to let the festival dust settle, we wanted to share our…
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Get March Madness Ready with these 10 Sports Startups
NCAA March Madness kicks off this week, which means millions of Americans are feverishly filling out their brackets, searching for this year’s best “Boss Button,” and deciding whether to love or loathe Kansas and Duke. And since the college basketball hype has us Springing Forward with sports top of mind, we found 10 Southern startups…
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Ready, Set, Action: 8 Southern Startups Breaking into the Film Industry
Sunday’s Oscar excitement has us talking about all things film! And while we’d love to binge watch all of Leo’s movies and replay any speech Alejandro González Iñárritu has ever given, Hollywood’s biggest night actually made us curious about the industry behind the scenes and beyond the Hills. In this week’s DIG 500, we discovered…
