That and it being kind of centrally located. We've also got a lot of talent coming out of local-ish (UTD, UT, UNT, SMU) universities to fill the labor demand.
The problem is that DMN doesn't cover/isn't aware of the scene. I think they might do one piece on TWC once every other year as a 'human interest' story rather than 'hey, look at all this cool shit happening in our front yard!' story.
TWC focuses on more of the enterprise/b2b side of things. They also recently opened up a new incubator dedicated solely to healthcare, which could turn into a HUGE market. It seems like many of the accelerators (TechStars, even YCombinator) go through phases where there will be 2-3 similar companies at a time.
>I'm building my company in one of the worst areas for technology startups: DFW.
Beg to differ. There's a plethora of resources in the DFW area for startups. They just don't have a centralized location/leader. There's Tech Wildcatters (incubator), CoHabitat (co-working space and just a great group of people that hang out there), Startup Happy Hours in Dallas (you can meet LOTS of people - lawyers, founders, angels, VC's, other startups, etc.), launchDFW (covers startup news in DFW; disclaimer: I write articles for them), etc. Lots of resources, it's just not easy to find them all the time because it's such a spread out area.
That's what they claim. And what Brad said is correct. According to the CEO (who is also CEO of LCC) their software is much more granular than other search engines. For example, when they scour NYT, Twitter, Blogs, etc. they are able to create about 100 semantic tags for every 1 that most of their competition does. This is how they're able to create so many Q&A pairs. They also incorporate real time keyword search along with the Q&A pairs that they have, which is something that (AFAIK) isn't done by any other company.
Right. The point is that you don't have to search for the answer, it just gives it to you. That's a simple example of the possibilities of semantic search engines.