Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2020 People are rightfully concerned about the threat of coronavirus, which has so far killed about 2,800 people worldwide. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2020 Imagine VR/AR/MR systems that truly understand how users think and feel. One of the 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Looxid Labs is working on that, serving VR companies in gaming, healthcare, commerce, and education. What’s your top goal for Looxid Labs in 2020?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. TSM: In this current environment, what have been the additional business challenges for you and how have you adjusted your operation and business model?

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The number of black female founders has doubled since 2016, for instance, and female-founded unicorns are now growing faster than ever before. There’s plenty of evidence that diverse life experiences help leaders unlock new ways of doing business, and find more creative solutions to the problems they face.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

During today's roundtable, we opened the session with a discussion of the existential crisis in media and how talented bloggers and journalists are facing a tough time sustaining themselves due to lack of business models. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here. You can register for upcoming roundtables here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Yet there are clearly some positive steps I can recommend for getting you (and him) over the bridge: Find a co-founder who has been there and done that. At least the first time around, it pays big dividends for an idea person to find a partner with the business skills you haven’t tested yet. A full plan may be no more than 20 pages.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. This is a very strong group of founders building some of the worlds next amazing companies. I’m especially excited that we have five companies represented from Austin this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

As a business investor, I look for investments where I see founders really holding their people accountable for their actions. More importantly, I look for entrepreneurs and owners like you who are not afraid to hold themselves accountable for the success of the business.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. The city was ranked number 6 on CBRE’s Tech Talent Report in 2020 out of 50 North American markets and is home to 5,500 startups. It’s no surprise investors are choosing to come to Austin.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2021

million businesses in 2020, up 24% from the previous year. This is the biggest surge in business formation on record. The question for many entrepreneurs is, how do you start a business the right way with the right startup business structure? Develop a Business Model. That changed with the pandemic.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

In addition, I asked him to do a competitive analysis on the pricing models of the various mobile app platforms and come back to me with both sets of market data, namely, customer research and competitive analysis. We can derive GeoInvenio's business model and pricing model based on that.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 7, 2020

Francie Jain is the founder and CEO of Terawatt , a business platform that connects business experts and coaches to professionals looking to improve upon specific soft skills in an affordable way. Terawatt uses the marketplace business model to make coaching affordable. What makes you unique? Two things: .

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. What is a founder to do? As IVC reports: In Q1–Q3/2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $12.3

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Arm the creators, a popular newsletter published by Hugo Amsellem, mapped over 150 startups in a landscape published on December 2020. Note that most of the density in these landscapes is around ‘business model’ – ad revenue, marketplaces, memberships, affiliate. The 2021 Creatorscape by Influence ( source ).

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2020

by Ian Pribyl, Founder of StoppingScams.com and author of “ From Nothing: Everything You Need to Profit from Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Blogging, Online Business, e-Commerce and More… Starting With <$100 “ Now more than ever, people all over the world are considering starting an online business.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Please remember, free is not a business model. a healthcare IT business for managing compliance requirements for pharmaceutical and medical device companies, recording transactions that involve payments to physicians. The Free Rider Problem. Also, Michaeline Daboul, from New Hampshire, pitched MMIS Inc. ,

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

While the basic premise is compelling, and I am very interested in entrepreneurship opportunities in this area, the business model is flawed. Some of these businesses should definitely apply for the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge grants. Recordings of previous online roundtables are all available here.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

The company already has paying customers and a validated business model. The founders, Sunil Guttula and Abinasha Karana, are experienced IT professional with 15 years of experience between them solving various enterprise IT problems. You can read more about Freshdesk on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar today.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Outreach was named to the 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups list, which uncovers the 50 companies that have stood out this year, attracting investment, employees and attention. No matter the vertical, geography, business model, macro or micro trends, entrepreneurs form the nucleus of a generational company. Stay tuned!!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 17, 2020 Skilllab has a clear mission: to develop technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate refugees into local labor markets. Skilllab’s co-founders won the Google AI Impact Challenge in 2019. What is your top goal for Skilllab for 2020?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 1, 2011

As for business model, Jigar wants to sell services like refilling cards. Before I end, let me also point you to an interview we're running on my blog with Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList , which you may find enlightening. Next week, the 1M/1M roundtable will focus on entrepreneurs in East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. What is your top goal for FilmChain for 2020? film and tech?—?and

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Did you win big on the Super Bowl? Or maybe you can’t wait to make your picks for Euro 2020. See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Did you win big on the Super Bowl? Or maybe you can’t wait to make your picks for Euro 2020. See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. What is your top goal for Quicc for 2020? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Our guest today is Matthew Fischman, Founder and Creative Director at Har Har Creative. The retainer model that was so common in the past is rare nowadays. Therefore, hiring freelancers is key to our business model. Matthew, the creative industry went through many changes in the last decade. About Transformify.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. My assessment is that this is a good company that should be able to raise money at this point.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 29, 2020 Here’s a problem: worldwide, there aren’t enough radiologists to meet patient needs. What is your top goal for Radiobotics in 2020? All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. Winding Tree Co-Founders: CEO Maksim Izmaylov (left) and COO Pedro Anderson (right). What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020? How Winding Tree works to improve travel bookings.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virsix Games reimagines how people play together by remixing analogue play with cutting-edge emerging technologies such as AI, voice-activated smart speakers, augmented reality, near field communication, machine learning techniques and more.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Cove.tool CEO Sandeep Ahuja recently won a Forbes 30 under 30 award The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2020 Bringing together sustainability and efficient architectural practices, the team at Cove.tool is committed to fighting climate change one building at a time. What is your top goal for CoveTool for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. What is your top goal for Flugauto for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. plans to revolutionize indoor growing The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2020 Are you an urbanite craving a connection with nature? Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., What is your top goal for Ava Byte for 2020? AVA Technologies Inc.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc. plans to revolutionize indoor growing The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2020 Are you an urbanite craving a connection with nature? Valerie Song , CEO & Founder of AVA Technologies Inc., What is your top goal for Ava Byte for 2020? AVA Technologies Inc.

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