Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company.

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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. With the sheer number of startups, talent and investment funds within Austin or moving to the city, it is no surprise that the number of individuals relocating to the area continues to increase.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. But I digress?—?this

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MARCH 3, 2018

Austin always has a strong presence at SXSW and this year is no different. Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! 1:30PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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Austin Startup

JULY 26, 2020

[link] Who says Austin can’t do consumer? If you live in Austin, you can be one of the first to sign up for a new consumer service right out of Austin started by Andrew Busey and April Downing. Supply Drop Who says Austin can’t do consumer? Sign up for SupplyDrop to prove them wrong (and never run out of toilet paper).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

Every night you are just hanging out with big name bands and the teams around them that brought them to their peak.&#. I turned around and there was StockTwits founder (and my favorite Tweeter) Howard Lindzon. And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). SXSW is the place of startup launches?—?Twitter when we had strength.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Lani Rosales , COO at The American Genius & The Real Daily , opened the conversation by asking if we should get rid of unstructured interviews where candidates meet with an interviewer one-on-one instead of in a more organized process.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Austin-based startup Fetii has a solution. Some big names have taken notice. Sharky Laguana, CEO of groundbreaking van-rental firm Bandango, recently joined Verizon veteran Ashok Kumar and RideScout co-founder Joseph Kosper on Fetii’s board of advisors. Visit www.fetii.com to learn more. With a Group and Need a Ride?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 24, 2019

My purpose since the beginning has been to help entrepreneurs, especially those based in Austin, as well as to clarify and solidify my own learnings. Lucky7 is named after my mom , who was an amazing woman and entrepreneur herself. Brant Barton, my co-founder, and I had left Coremetrics to start it together.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. The three founders of DigitalTwin Technology met during the EU ICT 2017 in Budapest, Hungary. Name three people, in any field, alive or dead, you’d like to meet and tell us why.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. My cofounder Tom Tichy and I worked together at our former employer to conceive of and launch their first cloud-based software application. They don’t just create dashboards that need to be monitored.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking for Funds in All the Right Places: The Definitive Guide to Austin Capital By David Altounian and Stephen Straus OVERVIEW For entrepreneurs: We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of capital in Austin to help focus your fundraising efforts. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I apologize in advance that it is pretty hard-hitting but I want to be raw and honest with you in order to do my best to help you: We are at the tail-end of RISE week here in beautiful Austin. And, overall, it has been another great week for Austin, with TechStars announcing their launch, which I wrote about in this Lucky7 post.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

My co-founder, Jason Novek, and I got into Y Combinator when there were 27 total companies in the batch and only four YC partners in existence. The product was simple, and didn’t work every time, but after three months we had several newspapers cranking and it was enough to let my now co-founder quit his job in the “real world.”

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

The first-ever Austin Cannabis Entrepreneur (ACE) Conference comes to the Hyatt Regency on April 19–20, bringing two days of content focused on startup opportunities in this fast-growing market. Central Texas founders and investors will want to catch the ACE opening session at 10:00 am on Thursday, April 19.

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Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2017

And it’s more than a simple name and logo change. Dorm It Up We came up with our original name after watching an episode of Community (TV sitcom): [link] The name was so easy to understand, fun, and relatable. Shanil Wazirali, Co-Founder new name. That’s right, we gave ourselves a makeover. selling fun.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The program, overall, is a top 25-ranked entrepreneurship program in the country, right up there with our UT Austin and Texas A&M brethren. Before I made the move, like many of my Austin colleagues and friends, I had developed a high-level impression of the city. just under $6 billion, respectively.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Household names like twitter , foursquare , John Mayer , Kid Cudi , James Blunt , Ellie Goulding , and even Amy Winehouse all got their start on the SXSW stage. As Director of Talent at Interplay, Mia saw first hand what it takes to be a founder. If you don’t know what SXSW is, take a minute to google it.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions. billion in funding poured into Austin deals. for funding amounts. Last year, nearly $1.2

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Austin Startup

APRIL 18, 2018

Said another way, these changes offer some tremendous opportunities in the increasingly legal cannabis market for founders and startups with innovative and original entrepreneurial ideas. Register now for the Austin Cannabis Entrepreneur (ACE) Conference on April 19–20 at the Hyatt Regency for just $75. Green Austin!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

I remembered reading about it’s ‘launch’ a few months earlier, which read: Verts, the Austin-born Mediterranean fast-casual chain, changed its name to Noon Mediterranean. Brand-Building for People who Build Brands I came across a monograph about Unimark , the legendary brand identity company co-founded by Massimo Vignelli.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. Measure conversion rates. Setup a simple website.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2017

by Edmund Buckley , co-founder & CEO of CampusSafe. By allowing it to be more of a conversation, you’re able to see what part of the pitch isn’t landing and explain any holes that might be discovered in your pitch. He is an alum of Austin’s Tech Ranch Venture Forth Program. education, specialization, etc.).

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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. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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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.” All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. But to achieve this, we need the entire ecosystem to work together.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Charles Schwab.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The brainchild of 20-year-old CEO and Co-Founder Michael Ioffe , Arist builds text message courses consisting of a series of 1,200 character texts sent to the user daily over five to 30 days. Ioffe founded TILE , the world’s largest conversation series, which now has more than 400 chapters and is in 49 countries.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The brainchild of 20-year-old CEO and Co-Founder Michael Ioffe , Arist builds text message courses consisting of a series of 1,200 character texts sent to the user daily over five to 30 days. Ioffe founded TILE , the world’s largest conversation series, which now has more than 400 chapters and is in 49 countries.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

My three rules for building & growing it as a founder. I have a no name tags rule with events since they remind me of bad networking events, but I’d make an exception for these fun ones. Ever since we met countless people in Austin who rooted us on before we even opened our doors as a startup and coworking space.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

My firm Village Capital has been active in Austin over the last few years — we’ve invested in a couple of companies, and we have more investors in our fund from Austin than anywhere else in the country. According to the Kauffman Foundation, in 2016, Austin was ranked #1 in entrepreneurial activity. Austin’s not unique.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S. What problem does CoveTool solve?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 26, 2018

I had worked behind the scenes at Austin Ventures, seeing how the VC industry really works. Bazaarvoice had been rated the best place to work in Austin when it was a small, medium, and then large-size company, winning #1 in all three categories as we rapidly grew. As founders, we are humans too. So why was I afraid?

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

I moved to Austin after I graduated from college. Over these past few blissful years in Austin, I’ve found wonderful lady companions through many different ways. I went to the first meetup BossBabes ever held in 2015, at Friends and Neighbors in East Austin. GEN Austin Who? They were expecting 15 girls, tops.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. Make a note of which hypothesis this user was exposed to.

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Right: Umesh, Founder of NEWAH. A hand-written contract is drawn up with every household listed as co-signers. The official name of the project is “Ratodanda Simras Solar Lifting”. It is difficult for me to eat something after I have named and pet, so I respectfully declined. Left: Mahesh, Program Manager.

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