Reinvigorating the Dallas Startup Community: Phase 1

Living in Dallas, I'd love to see the start-up community flourish. I do not think it's a lack of density, though. I feel like it's a cat-mouse problem.

As harsh as this is, I do not think the community will flourish here until a start-up comes along and makes it cool to be a web entrepreneur here. Many of my friends, and myself, consider themselves developers and entrepreneurial minded and would love to attend a cool meet-up, and build a start-up community ... we think, anyways, based on our reading of tweets, and HN, about how cool those Github open-bars are. Driving out to Dallas, having a few drinks and then driving back is a big commitment, though (long drive, major highways). I guess my point here is that we're not only fighting a lack of the startup community, but we're fighting the notion that it's not cool to be a startup here, it's cool to be a startup in San Francisco or New York. Again, the cat-mouse problem.