Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

These investments include Kaggle, a startup that compels engineers to compete against each other in order to solve “hard problems,” and Continuuity, Parse, Pushd and Citus Data. The top layer of applications and services that use the innovations of the first two layers to transform vertical markets (e.g,

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

For reliable insights on the economy, an outstanding resource is ITR Economics , an economic research organization that issues monthly economic trend reports by industry verticals and market segments. These insights will help business leaders view information relevant to their specific marketplace.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. Amelia Investments – “Amelia Investments is a private equity fund creating economic opportunities throughout the Middle East region. Apply here. Siraj Capital.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. First, they have to be publicly accessible for users and search engines. Those features are helping sites ranking for thousands, even millions, of keywords.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. The engineer assumes that the product “will sell itself”, and this mindset couldn’t be more wrong. It is another aspect of the mindset I described in The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #3 on the five critical ingredients to build a big company.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. One of their engineers have now taken that and used AI to model that for other companies. There are challenges on both sides. Substrate.ai

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. The cost of money is steep, and only works in certain verticals, of which software is NOT one. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 5, 2015

Going forward here are three new technologies that should help maintain this trend: Genetically engineered crops: In 1996 there were 1.7 This 87-fold increase in hectares makes genetically engineered seeds the fastest-adopted crop technology in the history of modern agriculture.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Among her many distinctions, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s unusual for someone who is as deep in computer science and engineering and technical excellence as you are. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret. There’s no doubt about it.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

Among her many distinctions, she is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Academy of Arts and Sciences. It’s unusual for someone who is as deep in computer science and engineering and technical excellence as you are. FFL: So, Reid, here’s a secret. There’s no doubt about it.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I agree with that, they are becoming no different to other large vertically integrated service providers like Facebook and Apple. As Danny points out, there is one important historical difference though, and that is Google’s “Do no evil positioning”, which gives the worlds largest search engine much further to fall than its competitors.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. It’s free.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As we wrote in Brand Health, 6 Important Questions You Should Ask About Your Small Business Brand , Brand health can be measured in numerous ways, including brand reputation, brand awareness, brand equity, brand positioning, and brand delivery. Horizontal vs vertical vs diagonal lines. Vertical lines run perpendicular to the horizon.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

Some of the parts of the city that qualify as such are downtown and most arterial roads that were rezoned as “vertical mixed-use” (VMU) over a decade ago, including South Lamar, East Riverside and Burnet Rd. depending on how one counts it: $80 million in cash plus another $80 million in equity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

And the same time we were also going to do all the other strategic stuff about pricing, positioning, promotion and customer discovery and validation to help engineering understand customer needs. But sales came first. (By

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To generate long-term brand equity and trust, and maintain competitive advantage, every brand campaign should be influenced by a strategy that’s built on four principles: 1. We created Lemonade as a purpose-built, technology-first, vertically integrated and legacy-free insurance carrier. Purpose is your reason for existing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As I hopped on a conference call with his team—a serious bunch of engineers across a wide range of ages and backgrounds who were experts on everything from aerodynamic design to electrical system design.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I do not have financial or equity or any other stake in any company mentioned in this blog post (except Google). A huge vast majority of clicks coming from search engines continue to be organic clicks (which is why I love and adore search engine optimization). helps me refine my search engine optimization (SEO) strategy 2.

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