Kevin Koym » Austin

Quick update about me

kevin — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 22:53:49 +0000

This is Kevin- I am doing ok. By now, you might have heard that I was attacked on Friday night. All is good. I was able to walk to the emergency room after the attack, and for the most part I have been in really good spirits since.

The attack was senseless, and I don’t know why I was picked. There was no provocation, and it seemed that the four guys that attacked were not after money, only violence.

During the interim it has deeply touched my heart to see the outpouring of people that have reached out to me. Thank you for doing so, for this has really meant something to me.

In between taking care of my health, dealing with a criminal case, and doing what I love- helping entrepreneurs through building their businesses at the Tech Ranch Austin, I might not be able to get back to you really quick. I do look forward to connecting with you soon.

Here’s the KVUE news story on what happened.

We’re going to be rallying the community around some new ways of making Austin safer. If you are interested in being a part of making Austin safer, please let me know.

I’ll blog some more about what happened in a coming blog post.

Thanks,
Kevin

Need tools for your startup?

kevin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:06:47 +0000

As a part of today’s Tech Ranch Austin announcements- We have been selected by Microsoft to administer a program to give access to technology startups to the full suite of Microsoft tools for free. Read further details here about the program, and apply through the Tech Ranch Austin website.

Comming Business Events in Austin

kevin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:29:06 +0000

There are two important events happening in the Austin startup ecosystem this week and next:

Austin Business District’s Open4Business Conference- November 11- with five high impact tracks including Sales & Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Business Law, Sustainability

UT Austin’s Ready to Commercialize event November 17th and 18th- reviewing technologies that are coming out of the University of Texas System.

I will be at both events representing TechRanchAustin as we continue to look for tech entrepreneurs to join us on the ranch. Please let me know if you will be there- I look forward to connecting.

Exciting News of Expansion

kevin — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:39:39 +0000

I just posted over at the new TechRanchAustin blog news an annoucement about taking the startup incubation efforts that I have been doing over the last three years to a whole new level. Come check out what we are up to, and join us in our efforts to take the technology startup ecosystem here in Austin to a whole new level!

Share your war stories- Entrepreneur Happy Hour 10/24/2008

kevin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:53:30 +0000

Several of my fellow friends that are entrepreneurs were just discussing how we should get together for a happy hour- to share some war stories, reconnect with each other, and informally discuss what we can do to move our businesses forward, even in these troubled times. Given the number of others that have mentioned interest in this, we are going to open it up to others to join us… So we’re going to have a happy hour tomorrow (sorry for the short notice!) at House Wine at 5:30 pm. Here are the details:

HOUSE WINE

408 Josephine
Austin 78704-1017
+1.512.322.5210

Here is a map. This location is very close to the Barton Springs / Lamar intersection. They have wine and beer inexpensively priced. Moreover, if you have a good recent war story (whether the outcome was good, or if it created a lot of scar tissue for you) I will buy you your first drink. (Ok, so I am only going to do this for the first 10 good entrepreneurial-scar-tissue-stories, as we comisserate together. ) Catch me via twitter if you have any questions, or post a comment here. I look forward to catching up with you then.

Texas unemployment claims remain well above 2007 levels

kevin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:11:42 +0000

You’ve heard me chime in before about unemployment levels across Texas. I believe that the financial crisis that we are seeing is adding to this more than ever before. It is in this time of chaos that we, as entrepreneurs can create the biggest impact (and many times have some of the most interesting opportunities.) Constraint creates innovation. Large groups of unemployed workers make for difficult times, yet, it is in this environment that entrepreneurs still have opportunity to create. I am not saying creating in this environment is (or will be) easy, but we, the entrepreneurs, are in a position to create jobs, technologies, companies. Go startup something today!

Texas unemployment claims remain well above 2007 levels – Austin Business Journal:.

SXSW 2009: Vote to build your community

kevin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:59:57 +0000

For SXSW Interactive 2009, Matt Genovese of Door64, Sarah Cooke of Net Impact Austin, myself, and one other yet to be announced Austin community builder will be speaking at SXSW Interactive 2009. We need your vote to have these talks added to SXSW Interactive’s 2009 Lineup. Can you spare a moment to vote for these talks?

First, to do so you will need to sign up for an account here:
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/users/register

Here is the first talk to vote for:
The Rise of the Enterprise Tribe
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1207
Social networks are creating fundamental shifts in the opportunity to start / grow businesses. New social organizations are creating real business impact in getting work done, and helping entrepreneurs succeed. Kevin will share insight based on his book, and work with Bootstrap Austin and entrepreneur networks in Mexico and Chile.

Here is the second talk to vote for:
Building Austin: Best Practices For Growing Our Community
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/1181
Austin community leaders are leveraging social networking to actively build Austin more than ever before. We’ll bring several of Austin’s cutting-edge community leaders, including NetImpactAustin (non-profits), Door64 (employment), Bootstrap Austin (entrepreneurs) together in dialouge to share how they are building the Austin community, and not just holding networking events.

Thank you for your support. By getting these messages out, we will continue to build Austin into an entrepreneurial powerhouse!

Kevin