Loop 1 Corridor

Not sure if this guy lives in Austin or not, but here's an interesting and fairly truthful comment that was posted on the Startup Centers post on the O'Reilly Radar blog, where Austin ranks 7th for "relative size of startup job market"…

"Austin? Hmm. You might be able to suggest statistically that Austin has start up activity, but it certainly doesn't feel that way on the ground. Or if there is, it's in areas this site doesn't generally cover: unsexy hardware stuff, tedious IT plumbing, or power supply makers. There's little community around software startups, and effectively none of the young, exciting kind that gets press on Radar."

The truth hurts. From my own experience in pitching our company to a well-known tier 1 west coast VC a few weeks ago, we were told that (even though we are not an enterprise software company) west coast VC's perception is that Austin is still focused on the enterprise and that the enterprise software market is fading out.

So where are the hot new-tech web2.0 sexy deals, Austin?