Daily Archives: 08/26/2011

(Community Matters) Startup Austin, an exciting initiative I heard about today – it’s all about creating JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.  Great luncheon with techies, chamber types, entrepreneurs (including rock stars Bob Metcalf and John Price).

Part of Startup America. I’ll try to post more about this over the weekend

chatting with Joshua Baer at the luncheon, I learned that he, Bob Metcalfe & John Butler are teaching an undergrad course on entrepreneurship – how cool is that?   ++  Capital Factory Demo Day is Sept 7 (corrected)

follow up posting here

(Community Matters) Photographer Francois Rousseau’s new coffee table book: Wet Men

(Community Matters) Humility, Service, Love and Care – as in Care Communities.  The height of a good charity event is when it oozes who and what the nonprofit is, what it does, and how it does it. And, there’s an even higher standard . . .when an evening’s awardee(s) also oozes the essence of an organization, its clients & its volunteers.

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