Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. Austin is good at software, Dallas is good at retail, Houston is good at oil & gas, and San Antonio is good at cybersecurity (just for a few examples).

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Dysonics secured $750,000 in funding from angel investors to develop products that will reproduce three-dimensional, immersive sound in headphones. Some of the i-lab’s long-term residents include mobile app ActivePepper, baby gear rental company Baby Buggle, and software developer Rover. Harvard Innovation Lab.

Incubator 202

Incubator New York City Boston Intellectual Property 202

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2013

A local lawyer will have local connections that will help you with funding, can make introductions to other business that can help you and will invite you to local events where you can meet their other clients and network. When to hire a lawyer. Typically, the best time to start a relationship with a lawyer is before you start your company.

Small Business 88

Small Business Hiring Startup Cofounder 88

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 25, 2010

Three important factors that founders have to consider (no matter their location) are networks, funding, and talent. Here’s how we viewed each of these: Networking was critical to us. Nor was there a widely established network of Angels with a track record of supporting local companies.

Chicago 81

Chicago Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Entrepreneur 81

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 24, 2013

The Why and How Of Updating Your Angel Investors – [link]. Good data on teen use of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and others – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

(Not logged on) | Register | Log On Home Discuss Jobs About The Business of Software A community discussing the business of software, from the smallest shareware operation to Microsoft. A part of Joel on Software. You simply need to network. Networking is probably the best single word answer. The gist: 1.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Angel Investor Affiliate 40

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Pick Your Investor With Care.   Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event. 

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Offshore Warrant Angel Investor 60

rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

Technical Cofounder 42

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Engineering Fractional CTO 42

davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness Design, Entrepreneurship, Economics and Software home Twittervision Flickrvision About @davetroy ← Start By Taking Action A New Plan for Economic Development → In Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Cofounders Find YOU! Befriend thought leaders; ask how you can help with later events.

Cofounder 41

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Baltimore Ruby 41

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. First Things First: Your Requirements You seem to feel that your project isn’t ready to move forward without a software developer (a “programmer&# , as you say). Post flyers around the CS labs.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Fractional CTO Partner CTO Hire 40

Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

There is a highly under-known fact in the software engineering world – many of the best developers and architects are not in Silicon Valley, but in the New York metro area. 3) Mentor Network – Retired Fortune 500 executives, Harvard/Princeton/Yale scholars, Financial Industry experts, many successful entrepreneurs. (4)

Silicon Valley 22

Silicon Valley New York Startup Software Engineering 22

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. Big things, like obscuring the networking stack under so many countless layers of abstraction that it’s virtually impossible to even imagine what bytes are actually going over the wire.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

But to get that Silicon Valley angel funding you have to be part of that social network; most of the rest of the world doesn’t have that frothy environment. They risk money they can afford to lose. They are comfortable with “risk investing” more so than anywhere else in the world. Option Two: Post-Launch?—?Raise

Technical Cofounder 20

Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Early Stage Cofounder 20

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Visa can make an amazing investor, just be sure to ask for money when you don’t need it. How I can find the right investor (software)?

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

>> The 15 Minute Website and Personal Website “Portfolios” – soon anyone will be able to build multiple personal sites with full e-commerce, payment systems, community, social networking, SEO, and big data analytics with no coding and very easy manipulation.

PHP 22

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