Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2019

Capital Factory has been the most active early stage tech investor in Texas since 2013. We did 70 transactions in 2018 alone! Job opening: Fund Administrator at Capital Factory In two or three years you’ll gain a decade worth of experience and dealflow.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

I was wondering what ever ultimately happened to that group of OG unicorns, so I looked back at her original post in TechCrunch from November 2013. To analyze what’s become of the OG Unicorns, it’s first worth noting that at the time of the 2013 post about 2/3rds of the 39 on the list had already been realized via IPO or $1B+ acquisitions.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event , 50 finalists from around the world will make their pitches before a panel of judges. In 2013, this inspired Watch Together and our journey began. What does Sceenic hope to accomplish in 2018? What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 26, 2021

When I befriended Alex Taub in 2013 he lived in New York City, didn’t have children, and certainly did not yet have thousands of dollars invested in virtual race horses. Hunter Walk: Ok, we met back in 2013 after we invested in theSkimm and they said you were one of their friends/navigators of the startup world.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. In 2018, it was that kind year. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

10: PillPack (2013). Techstars funded PillPack as part of the Techstars Boston Accelerator in 2013. PillPack was acquired by Amazon for approximately $1 billion in 2018. #11: 11: DataRobot (2013). Techstars funded DataRobot, an enterprise AI platform, as part of our Techstars Cloud Accelerator in 2013.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The German marching band Meute performing at the 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards The Forrest Four-Cast: Feb 19, 2019 50 of the world’s top startups will be showcased at SXSW Pitch 2019. The early entry process for the 2019 awards opened on June 25, 2018, with regular entry running from August 17 to October 11.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As of 2018, 80% of the top FinTechs can be found in Southeast Asian nations. Between May 2018 and May 2019, Quoine has traded over 50 billion USD in crypto. It is primarily an online payment company that was founded in 2013 but it wasn’t until 2015 that it launched its unique payment gateway system. Singapore Life (Singlife).

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. In an astonishing turn of events, in May 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame as well. In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 13, 2014

New forecasts out from Forrester predict that online retail sales in the US will be $294bn this year, rising to $414bn by 2018. The growth rate from 2013-2018 is forecast to be 9.5%. Better still, even after this growth online retail in the US will only be 11% of total retail sales, up from 9% this year. I love this market.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2020

In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame. In an astonishing turn of events, in May 2018, he was inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame as well. In 2013, Seth was one of just three professionals inducted into the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” By 2018 I sensed that he was right and we began focusing more on our barbell approach. Ten years on much has changed.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In 2018, after two short years and $3 million raised in startup funds, recruitment AI company Ansaro shut down due to bad market fit. Founder Nathan Barry launched in 2013 to help creators sell their books and courses but failed to meet revenue goals and eventually stalled. But success didn’t happen overnight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2014

In the US, nearly 18 million workers identified themselves as independent in 2013, up 10% from 2011. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018. The announcement by Yahoo in 2013, pulling home workers back into the office, triggered a debate on whether some new companies have gone too far.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Opportunity Hub (OHUB) | Inclusive innovation, entrepreneurship and investment for all Tech recruiter mentors HBCU@SXSW cohort on building soft skills during 2018 SXSW Opportunity Hub’s Growth and Mission Opportunity Hub was co-founded in 2013 in Atlanta, GA by Rodney Sampson.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Since 2013, there has been a 48% increase in AI related health companies working on our platform, covering everything from health trackers, virtual doctors and secondary services like apps that locate doctors near you. Influencer agencies commissioned five times as much design work last year than they did in 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2020

Since 2013, the South Korean government has invested up to $2 billion annually into its startup ecosystem, and in 2017 they pledged an additional $9 billion to have the highest government spending per capita. We will take a look at what those steps have done for South Korea and the possible projections.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 23, 2018

With 2018 winding down, I’ve finally gotten some downtime to digest the big changes I’ve personally undergone this year. But 2018 for me was also defined largely by personal decisions for myself and our family. They’re all good changes. After years of having pretty bad luck, I feel as if I have gotten a bit too lucky.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

United Way Foothills – After the Colorado flood in 2013 we decided to step up and fill a gap in funding from Foothills United Way. Museum of Boulder – Our city has a rich history on numerous dimensions. We now have a museum in downtown to be proud of.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Phil Weiser (@pweiser) December 5, 2018. The punch line in the post is: “By many measures , Colorado is the most entrepreneurial state in the country, a fact that I discovered in 2013 when studying high-technology business formation around the United States. Excited to work with our new Governor and my client to be, @jaredpolis.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 15, 2015

This research was initiated in 2013 and the latest survey was to add insights to a large qualitative set of interviews that I was able to work on for the last couple of years. Some current statistics : In 2018 the Internet demographic of India will be older, more gender neutral and more rural ( IAMAI, BCG, 2015). on social media).

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Haystack

JANUARY 28, 2019

At that time, back in 2013, Docusign was known to be a well-performing company. In early 2014, Docusign became a unicorn and eventually went IPO in 2018 at a whopping $4.5B I took Joseph out for lunch, told him about me and Haystack, and asked to invest in the company. Ultimately, Joseph invited me into the seed round.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. In 2018, Live Current Media bought it for $5 million. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. She was a sophomore student at Stanford University at the time. Holmes dropped out of university to focus on her company. Olaf Carlson Wee.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) September 6, 2018. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) September 1, 2018. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) September 1, 2018. — Total Food Service (@TFS_TotalFood) September 3, 2018. — crowdspring (@crowdspring) September 6, 2018. link] @crowdspring.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

trillion by 2018 [3] as major demographic and technological trends drive future growth. Aging populations are a fact of life for all major economies, with over 65’s expected to reach 580 million by 2018 [4]. 6] “Hitting the Sweet Spot – the Growth of the Middle Class in Emerging Markets”, Ernst & Young, 2013. [7]

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VC Adventure

MAY 6, 2020

In fact, the number of women-owned businesses has increased 31 times between 1972 and 2018 according to the Kauffman Foundation (in 1972, women-owned businesses accounted for just 4.6% of all firms; in 2018 that figure was 40%). Specifically t oday’s American entrepreneurs are more likely to be female and non-white.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 25, 2020

In October 2018, older posts began to decline in rankings. Brian Dean introduced the “ Skyscraper Technique ” in 2013 to out-long-form the long-formers. Beginning in October 2018, organic traffic to the CXL blog began to decline: At a glance, the reasons were difficult to suss out. Up-to-date content can be a differentiator.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This is the lowest growth rate since 2013. The Reuters survey found a range of forecasts for the capital, for example, ranging from a price rise of two percent to a fall of six percent in 2018. However, it is important to recognise that – on a national level – the UK property market is still growing. Annual price growth is at 3.1

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2019

According to Goldman Sachs, spending on cloud computing infrastructure and platforms grew at a 30 percent compounded annual growth rate from 2013 to 2018, as compared to 5 percent growth for enterprise IT.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 26, 2019

As of 2018, California is the only state that has written laws stating that employees are prohibited from tracking employee’s personal vehicles (which still doesn’t answer the cell phone question). There was also a case out of New York in 2013 – Cunningham v.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’ve seen significantly fewer IPOs pre-and post the financial crisis ( 213 in 2007, 31 in 2008, and 222 in 2013). trillion in 2018, or 6.2% When Lehman Brothers tanked , many other companies followed suit. But one aspect of the economy which tends to have a devoted follower base is real estate. trillion at its zenith in 2006.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2015

In the US, nearly 18 million workers identified themselves as independent in 2013, up 10% from 2011. Another study predicts this number could grow to 24 million by 2018. Work is becoming more of a tradable commodity, rather than a job, with freelancers and independent contractors, according to recent data.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Financial Times will release its 2018 MBA programme rankings at the end of January; they’ve provided a tease on entrepreneurship education (which Stanford University has dominated since this sub ranking began in 2015). This was up from 18 per cent in 2013 and 2014. From the FT. It fell back to 19 per cent in 2016 and 2017.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The latest estimates put the number of Russians online at 66 million, with growth expected to continue by around 15 to 20 percent year-on-year up until 2018. One of the most recent success story is the IPO of QIWI plc on the NASDAQ in May 2013. Russia currently has the largest online market in Europe.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

According to MarketWatch, GTA has generated over $6 Billion in total sales since its release in 2013, which makes it the top grossing entertainment title in history. Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The 700 th pub was launched in 2008, with the 800 th following in 2011 and 900 th in 2013. Value your people: the Group received top employer UK 2017 and 2018 accreditations and recognises that you must look after your own to be a success. Nowadays, the company employs over 35,000 staff, and owns 948 pubs and hotels.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 7, 2018

became a citizen of Colombia in August 2018 by decree of President Juan Manuel Santos, yet maintains his Canadian citizenship. Anthony Wile: After seeing the potential in Canada’s cannabis industry, and doing research for my 2013 book, Financial Freedom , I realized global expansion wasn’t far behind.

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