In my first article for Austin Business District Magazine, I cautioned against blindly trying to replicate the Silicon Valley model in Austin. In this second article I describe what Austin can learn from Silicon Valley and how it will help us discover our unique path.

Labels: innovation, open source

Bootstrapper Tom Brown of Stuffopolis is heading up a cool mashpit on OpenID January 17th from 4-10pm at Cafe Caffeine. If you aren't familiar with OpenID or the mashpit format you can get more info by checking out the OpenID screencast and visiting Tom's blog here.

For 2007 we are hoping to breathe some new life into the Bootstrap Austin Blog and will be covering much more of what's going on in Austin, profiling businesses that are involved in Bootstrap Austin and taking your input for any other ideas.

Hopefully we can turn this into a resource for entrepreneurs in any stage of building your business. Thanks, and I look forward to what's in store for this year.