Austin Entrepreneur Video Series

Entrepreneurs are the engine making Austin run. The city's legendary creative energy extends our reputation for new ideas and expansive dreams realized. Austin entrepreneurs are risk-takers. They bet big,  often staking their life savings and a steady income on their ability to turn dreams to reality. CultureMap Austin wants to capture that entrepreneurial spirit, telling the stories of the men and women who succeed the hard way—through sweat, tears, and low cash flow. Our series will tell their stories of success and failure, sharing both best practices, and celebrating great success.

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Tim League and the accidental drive home that became Alamo Drafthouse

By Kevin Benz - April 23rd, 2012

Tim League drove home using the same usual route from his two year-old engineering job at Shell Oil in Bakersfield, California. It was 1993, League was 23 years old. The Shell job was his first out of college and it wasn't ...

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Creative collaboration as a business model: Arts + Labor film, video and more

By Kevin Benz - April 9th, 2012

Creating art has never been easy business. The creative process takes time, it takes risk and it becomes personal. None of those attributes suit the building of a profitable business. But one thing these two endeavors share is hard work.  Finding a ...

Austin Entrepreneur Video Series

PROFILES OF INNOVATION

Vacationing with HomeAway: Success depends on the people

By Kevin Benz

May 9th, 2012 at 7:00 AM

New businesses sprout from ideas born a myriad of ways, the consistent source of success though is passion and there are few things we all get more passionate about than ...


TRAVEL WELL

Take me away and make it easy: HomeAway innovates to provide new travel apps

By Tavaner Sullivan

Apr 19th, 2012 at 4:31 PM

HomeAway’s hard-to-miss headquarters at the intersection of Lamar and 5th Street became a 24/7 entrepreneurial boot camp over the last weekend and the companies that were invented are ...


PROFILES OF INNOVATION

Fun for all and all for fun: Toy Joy teaches Austin how to play

By Kevin Benz

Mar 26th, 2012 at 3:33 PM

Where do you go if you really need a strong hit of nonsensical pleasure? Here in Austin, there is a place dedicated to the weird, fun vibe we've come ...


IDEAS IN MOTION

Roll with it: Record-breaking Cinetics puts cameras in unexpected places

By Caitlin M. Ryan

Mar 12th, 2012 at 3:05 PM

“It’s really easy to have an idea,” says founder and CEO of Cinetics, Justin Jensen, of entrepreneurialism. “But it’s the act of putting everything aside and saying 'Alright ...


PROFILES OF INNOVATION

Making local news relevant: Community Impact brings the local paper back from the dead

By Kevin Benz

Feb 27th, 2012 at 8:34 AM

Nobody thought John Garrett could possibly succeed. In a new media environment — a revolution in media really — Garrett planned to bring back a dinosaur, a weekly newspaper. "I was convinced ...


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