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Preparing Texas for 5G: The Need For Small Cells Technology
Consumers and businesses are using their mobile devices more than ever before to connect to everyone and everything around them. From January 2007 through December 2016, AT&T experienced a 250,000% increase in data usage on our network. And, as streaming video...
Small Cells and The Path To 5G: Paving the way for smarter, more connected cities
ATC CTO Dinner on March 29, 2017
Lead and Disrupt: How To Solve The Innovators Dilemma Innovation during times of change is a challenge, even for successful firms. In the book Lead and Disrupt, the authors charge that failure to innovate in the face of change is the fault of leadership style rather...
ATC SXSW Recap
Barbary Brunner, CEO The wildflowers are out in force, and SXSW has just wrapped, so that means that Spring is upon us here in Austin. ATC Hosted our annual Gateway party at the Belmont on Thursday night before SXSW Interactive. We had almost 500 folks join us for an...
Lessons from the Smart Cities Competition
Barbary Brunner, CEO I want to tell you a story about Austin's journey along the smart cities road. Late last winter, the Obama administration announced a U.S. Department of Transportation Smart Cities competition. The prize was $50 million put up by the U.S. DOT and...
Insperity Community Involvement
Insperity volunteers give time and talents for extraordinary results Integrity. Respect for the individual. Contributing to communities. Perseverance. Servant leadership. These are the tenets on which Insperity was built. They’re also the foundation of being a good...
Gemalto: Can Biometrics Improve The Traveler’s Experience?
Back in 1996, Tom Cruise’s use of fingerprinting and facial recognition in the first “Mission: Impossible” was the hottest new technology in Hollywood. But twenty years – and four new MI movies – later, biometrics are much more commonplace. You can use your...
Consero: You’ve Raised Your First Round – Now What?
As discussed in the recent article about establishing a holistic investor reporting philosophy, it's crucial for a seed-stage company to do so as soon as possible. But once the business has actually acquired backers and secured its first round of financing, that...
Policy Coalition Recap
The Policy Coalition began 2017 with a continued focus on strategic introductions to the Austin tech ecosystem for out of market policy influencers and a new dialog with the City on the innovation community's role in the development of policies that impact Austin's...
Ten Years Later: How Our “Four I” Values Have (Or Haven’t!) Changed
I’ve been an entrepreneur for many years now (check out that gray hair in my picture on our website!), and in my experience I’ve learned a lot about what it takes for a company to succeed and grow. Now you may be thinking it’s surely all about the right product at the...