David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over 300 old and new faces flew to Austin to spend two days full of networking and talks on growth and experimentation. Even though the Austin weather had some surprises in store for us, the tremendous effort to organize CXL Live pulled off the event through a (literal) storm and frenzy. Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

L to R: Tiara Zolniez (Co-Founder & Sales), Dr. Roshawnna Novellus (Co-Founder & CEO), Alisha Griffey (COO) The Forrest Four-Cast: February 4, 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.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Josh Baer, co-founder of Capital Factory, made the announcement via a blog post and on Twitter. In total, each startup will get up to $150,000 […] The post Financing Thunderlizards in Austin at Capital Factory appeared first on SiliconHills. Austin Capital Factory Floodgate Silverton Partners'

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony (7 pm Sunday, March 11), at the Hilton Austin. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Pawame uses tech-enabled loan management and mobile money payment platforms to offer its customers a means of finance that is not limited by distance or lack of Internet access or a bank account.

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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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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2018

Shep: “Shep is an employee-centric tool that lets HR and Finance departments guide and track real-time spending as employees book business travel on any site they like.” So get out there and practice your pitch to your partner, co-founder, Mom, and, most importantly your mirror. Litr.ly: “Litr.ly

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Volo co-founders Nicola Donadini, Melissa Mitchell and Lotis Bautista The Forrest Four-Cast: February 18, 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. What is your competitive advantage?

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta. I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program.

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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. In 2017, Austin was the topped-ranked city by funding amount outside of the Western, Northeast and Chicago regions.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Cartoon by Andertoons. Or switch off.

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SiliconHills

JULY 16, 2012

Last week at San Francisco Bakery and Café on Anderson Lane, Paula Soileau, cofounder and partner at Affintus Scientific Hiring, sat down with me to talk about her startup. Before Affintus, Soileau worked at the American Heart Association as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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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. —?they

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

This Austin-based startup won the Entertainment & Content category at SXSW Pitch. Moreover, the company’s co-founder and CEO Gerald Youngblood was part of a panel titled “ ON-DEMAND: Gaming and The Most Connected Generation, Ever.” They also exhibited at the SXSW EDU Expo as well as the SXSW Gaming Expo.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

By Kurt Rathmann, CEO and Co-Founder, ScaleFactor. As a former CPA who left the business world to help business leaders protect their passions, I’ve seen how easy it is for founders to lose sight of the reason they got started. However, I’ve also seen how founders were able to turn things around and get back on track.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 29, 2016

Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners and Silverton Partners led the financing. John Berkowitz, co-founder of Yodle and David Rubin, founder and former CEO of ProfitFuel founded OJO Labs in February of […] The post OJO Labs Lands $5.8 million in Series A funding from local investors.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations, and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. What is your top goal for Betmarkets for 2020? Tell us about something you love.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO of Betmarkets, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. What is your top goal for Betmarkets for 2020?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Techstars Austin 2017' Hi there! I’m Hannah, founder and CEO at Babbler. We completed Techstars accelerator in Austin in May 2017 and decided to join this journey for 3 reasons: We were looking for constructive criticism ; and we needed to get out of our comfort zone. That’s why UX is key, if you want to sell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 13, 2018

I shared the stage with two early FPV portfolio companies, Blockchain and Bitpesa, and connected with a number of old friends in the sector, including Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, academic and entrepreneur Emin Gun Sirer, and Circle founder Jeremy Allaire.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2011

The application deadline for Austin-based Capital Factory ’s 2011 program is Sunday , and momentum for tech startups and entrepreneurship in general are riding high as the SXSW Interactive festival wraps up. I posed this question to FamigoGames co-founder Q Beck. Austin is a great place to support that journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A group of seasoned Austin technology entrepreneurs and executives are announcing the formation of their new company, Mass Relevance , to help consumer brand use real-time social content to drive engagement on television, the web, and in the mobile world. We asked Mike Maples about his investments in Austin.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2010

Heatwave is an interactive media company comprised of industry veterans from the interactive, music and film industries who have gathered in Austin, Texas to make amazing video games played by millions. moment occurred when I was introduced to Heatwave’s co-founder through a mutual business contact. Who had the idea?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

One of the highlights of my trip was a startup dinner which included Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. Pivoting - Chris Dixon , June 14, 2010 My Hunch cofounders and I frequently ask ourselves: “If we were to start over today, would we build our product the same way we had so far? Now I have.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2019

A series on things I constantly ask myself as a founder. This is a series on things I’ve asked myself constantly as a founder. the passionate fellow startup founders, VCs, and other advisors who adhere to the “all in” method. Myself and my founder have decided not to pay ourselves yet and invest our money into the business?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The funding, which follows a $750,000 angel round, brings the company’s financing to $2.8 NEA was an obvious fit because of their expertise in IT, mobile and security and we’re confident our collective efforts will bring TabbedOut to a city near you soon” said Rick Orr, Co-Founder and CEO of TabbedOut. million in total.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. In the end, I believe they co-created our product with us. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. View More » Entertainment 6 Free Sites for Creating Your Own Co. Was looking for something like this. thank you Edouard Reinach kodak is not a word made from nothing. He invented the name Kodak.

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