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I moved my company to Austin from NYC a year ago. Not one event have I been to where Gowalla was mentioned.
by moses1400 15y ago
I moved my company to Austin from NYC a year ago. Not one event have I been to where Gowalla was mentioned.
- a5seo 15y agoI'll second that. Gowalla was in Austin in name only. Zero presence at any events, no penetration of the startup networks. They moved to Austin from Dallas, I hear, at the behest of investors.
- moses1400 15y agoIt's interesting how many startups are based here yet Gowalla got the huge press whenever Austin was mentioned. I wonder why this is - is it because of the Foursquare competition initially? Because they launched at SXSW and were a local company?
- caseysoftware 15y agoNo clue why they got all the attention.. but @mattt has gotten involved in the community here and there. I've run into him a few times at @damon's Friday Night Hacks. In terms of other startups, we have Other Inbox, Infochimps, WPEngine, and a number of other things that are relatively quiet. In terms of "big" players, we have Facebook, Evernote, Zynga, some of Sony's game dev (DC Universe Online started here), and Ebay/Paypal is moving in. OpsCode and Mozilla both have lead evangelists here too. And there are probably dozens of things I'm missing.. Disclosure: I'm a Developer Evangelist for Twilio and based in Austin.
- drewcrawford 15y agoWhat company and where in Austin? (There's no info in your profile or comment history). I'm always looking to meet local entrepreneurs.