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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Salon FG Bankrupt to Billionaire with SBA Administrator Linda McMahon & Headspring CEO Dustin Wells In business?—?as

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Small Business and Startups: Where to Learn

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Check out the sites for these five for more information: Founder Institute , Junto Institute , Y Combinator , The Technology Innovation Center , TechStars. But mostly these small business, venture capital, and marketing blogs provide great tools, resources, learning opportunity, and practical information targeted directly at you.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

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“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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How to Find a Mentor

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Wright, serial entrepreneur and founder of investment firm The Resourceful CEO. “I See Also Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Don’t ask people to be your mentor—just start getting to know them,” says Ryan Naylor, founder and president of LocalWork. See Also Got “Founder Fit”?

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z. There are SBA loans.