On Saturday, our final day in Austin, we had some time to reflect on our travels. We began the day by having a coffee meeting with Sean Branagan who is the director of the Newhouse Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Syracuse University. He is also the creator of Student Startup Madness at SXSW which is […]
Well, Austin is a beautiful city–different from Boulder, but in a wonderful and weird way. As the Austinites strive to keep the city weird, I would say they did a pretty good job. I saw many unique hairstyles and outfits, but that is what makes the city itself. On Friday, Ethan, Alexis, Eric, Katie and I […]
On March 13th, we visited one of the coolest co-working spaces so far (in my opinion): the Capital Factory. From inside, there is a beautiful view of the capitol and downtown Austin and 46,000 sq. ft. full of entrepreneurs (on two floors: 16th and 5th floors). There are 3 components to the Capital Factory: the […]
It was another great day in Austin for these Michiganders! We started out early again, for a meeting with the city manager and assistant city manager of Austin. Even though our meeting was only about six miles away, we had to leave about 45 minutes before because of the traffic in Austin. Talking to Marc […]
We arrived in Austin late last night/early this morning, slap happy from all the travel. Our first stop was Whataburger, a burger chain that we don’t have in Michigan. After our late night indulgence, we got to our hotel to sleep for a few hours before our next day’s meetings. Our first meeting was at […]