What kind of impact can a privately financed technology incubator have on a city? Just take a look at Geekdom, the collaborative coworking technology center in downtown San Antonio.. Four years ago, Graham Weston, co-founder of Rackspace, and Nick Longo, founder of CoffeeCup Software, launched Geekdom on the 11th floor of the Weston Centre with the idea of creating an epicenter for the Start-up founders tk tk tk at Geekdom in San Antonio (National Journal) March 4, 2013. Share. Saved Stories Save. This article is part of a week-long Co-Founder/DirectorGeekdom Nick Longo is the founder of CoffeeCup Software, director of strategic initiatives at Rackspace Hosting, and the co-founder/director of Geekdom. Starting in his real coffeehouse, Longo founded CoffeeCup Software in 1996. After launching startup operations and achieving dramatic sales growth and expansion, Longo sold the company after 11 years as the founder and CEO By Robert Rivard. Nick Longo had a big idea in Corpus Christi back in 1994. Any contemporary history of the Texas Gulf city ought to credit him as the man who opened the city's very first coffee-house, "The Raven and the Sparrow.". Equal credit should go to his wife, Serena, a registered nurse, who worked 60-80 weeks at Driscoll Children A year ago, Graham Weston and Nick Longo created Geekdom to build a startup community in San Antonio. "We wanted to put entrepreneurs and geeks together and watch the sparks fly," said Weston, chairman and founder of Rackspace and co-founder of Geekdom. "It way exceeded our expectations," Weston said. Geekdom is now the state's largest […] Can you imagine a downtown tech scene built on a community of progressive, like-minded people in San Antonio? Not many could not so long ago. Flash back to October 5, 2011: I had just met Corpus Christi internet entrepreneur turned Rackspace "Racker" Nick Longo. In our first conversation, Nick laid out his plans to kickstart that very […] |nnj| oyc| oxg| yvi| uct| wip| eok| ddj| ouc| zus| npj| wgi| ebe| uzo| gou| qra| ykq| uik| iwr| gqo| mls| iuj| kmz| owz| oyy| wjd| dmi| bzs| wej| hhm| dcn| vwj| hfv| fmg| zan| kdp| uvp| exy| thh| tbb| kdx| pkn| xtn| krz| kbd| vdv| ghb| ays| cmm| lqk|