Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Two events this week in St. Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue. Capital Innovators put on the event, called Demo Day, at the cherished Pageant Theater, which normally is a concert venue. Applications are due by June 15th.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Only married once, just for clarity…) .

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2014

Whenever you distribute a new product into the marketplace you expose yourself to potential lawsuits. Therefore you can be fully protected in the event of liability for losses or injuries to a buyer in case the product has a defect or malfunction. Vest your Equity over time. Product liability insurance coverage.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? It has big wide open spaces for such events.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. The Innovation Center at Houston’s TMC (TMCx), co-located with Johnson and Johnson’s J-Labs, and the Center for Medical Device Innovation, drive medical innovation. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice).

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Event Calendar. How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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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? In Q3 302 exit events took place, amounting to $14.0

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I million in revenue a year. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I million in revenue a year. .

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph. [link]  —  @TexasManifesto Day 1?—?Dallas ExxonMobil.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. One of the questions that kept coming up at that meetup -and at countless events since- was why I decided to go the traditional publishing route for my new book.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. However, since you asked – next would be making a list of all the speakers at the events for my industry and personally reaching out to them for advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. One last suggestion, which is a technique I learned from my IMVU co-founder Will Harvey. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. The tagline for the event was actually "Starting a company is easier than you think." How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Let's recap. He's awesome. " Listen.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

I hope to be asked back for next year’s event. Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. VC can’t don’t invest in these kinds of companies because they can’t get out (no liquidity event). Then there is a royalty rate.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Date for a bit, then split the equity. No one funded us.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date.

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VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. The fund is backed by David Moche, a Florida based real estate investor, and one of the co-founders of About.com. SixScan – SaaS security product to protect sites from hacker attacks. Nogeno – an about.me

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though. It certainly did me.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

I hope you can join us at the HBS Club of NY / HBS Angels of NY event below on Thursday, June 16: Click here to make a reservation. Adam Berk, Founder of Neigh*borrow. Mr. Berk graduated from Emory University and began his career trading equities (not tools or electronics). Adam Black, Founder KeyWifi.com.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

If you live in an area that has "hacker" or "startup-weekend" type events where idea people are teamed with developers, it can be great way to get some free (or low cost) experience in what it is like to work with a team of developers, narrow the scope of your project, and understand what it takes to get to v1.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

She’s the founder of Katzman Consulting and the author of a book we’re going to talk about today, Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning and Joy at Work. Are we having an event at an offsite or the end of the day? This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Dr. Melanie Katzman. Do you know?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Event platforms. real-time event tracking. Wufoo - create contact forms, online surveys and event registrations. Videos/presentations.

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