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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses. You don’t need rockstar engineers. We reached out to the M.io

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Killer Events – Think about what a wonderful benefit Austin gets by hosting SxSW every year. Maker Studios.

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Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top…

Austin Startup

Five entrepreneurs get free plane tickets to pitch for $100,000 in seed funding from Austin’s top angel investors Every week we meet incredible entrepreneurs from all over the country and all over the world who would move to Austin if they only had some funding. CNBC said Austin is the best city in the U.S. to live in.

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More Tech Startups are LLCs

Austin Startup

The main drivers, from our viewpoint, are: Many tech entrepreneurs no longer view venture capital as an inevitability in their growth path, and have grown skeptical of the traditional “growth at all costs” mindset found in many startup circles; and An increasing number of VCs are growing comfortable with LLCs.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

It’s a big priority in Austin and at Capital Factory, too. Her day job is Head of Commercialization but she is also the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Capital Factory, leading the Austin Diversity Council and advocating for women and LBGTQ in tech.