Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I started Good Dog Labs in early 2014 and a year later I officially became a co-founder with the on-boarding of my brother Dino in 2015. More importantly I want to share what I have learned, my expertise, and the opportunity I had back to the Austin tech and startup community.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

But the difference between typical New Year’s resolutions and my 2015 goals is the very specific plan I have in place to guarantee achievement. Specific key results are assigned to each goal, like playing board games with my kids ten times in 2015 and weekly lunches with my wife. Ask yourself. Give yourself time. Take little steps.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Carmen Medina , co-author of the book Rebels at Work , spent 32 years at CIA. Don Burke , digital architect for the Central Intelligence Agency. Don : Exactly.

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

The company’s founders are in the video and in the brand’s Instagram content. By presenting themselves as the public face of the company, Rooted’s co-founders are building their personal brand and making the retail brand more relatable. Cornerstone Fellowship uses omnichannel marketing to build community.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. My co-founder, Paul Pirner and I were old friends and craft beer lovers who had each decided (independently of one another) to adopt an alcohol-free lifestyle.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Get Involved The 2015 conference will be held from November 16th-19th at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

data.world is the sixth startup that I’ve co-founded and led. I’ve given advice in this area to many entrepreneurs, and I pose this lesson to you as food for thought (the right answer very much depends on the unique nature of the startup and its co-founders). How did my co-founders and I apply this lesson at data.world?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2015

2015 is here, and you’ve got plans for your business. To give you an idea of what other business owners are planning to do in 2015, we asked entrepreneurs to send us their resolutions. Here’s a compilation of business resolutions for 2015. In 2015…Simplify. In 2015…Grow. How did 2014 go for you?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

William Hurley, co-founder of Honest Dollar , an Austin-based provider of retirement plans to small businesses, says creative talent is abundant : It’s got the music, the university scene, the hippies and the rule-breakers… It’s very easy to hire people who want to push the limits.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. We are building a community. I went full-time as an entrepreneur in 2015 after I was laid off from a job and then decided I wanted to work on my own terms.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

It got lots of travelers worldwide as users of that website, which became a great community. I started getting it developed from 2015, by paying from my own pocket. Later, some of my Couchsurfing friends joined, and became Co-Founder of International Travelers. Couchsurfing was launched in mid 2000.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 30, 2014

Denis Duvauchelle is the CEO and co-founder of Twoodo , the hashtag language that lets you organize anything and everything. A study conducted by Gartner last year stated that 80 percent of attempts to gain benefits from using social collaboration tools will not be seen until at least 2015. This is astounding.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. Team Info: Co-Founder/Managing Editor: Stephanie Choporis.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. Thanks to Dave Munson, Saddleback Leather Co. ! #16- I also love that it’s a community, and how entrepreneurs help each other. Thanks to Katie Horgan, Giving Assistant !

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 25, 2017

I had a great time and it’s fun to see the vibrancy of the Atlanta startup community. If you don’t know Scott, he was the co-founder and CEO of ExactTarget (2000) – one of the original SaaS companies. He was on the Salesforce.com leadership team until he left to start High Alpha in 2015.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Austin Ventures remained the dominant firm in Austin — and Texas — from the launch of its predecessor fund, Rust Ventures, in 1979 through 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). As a result we need somebody well networked into these communities already.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC By 2015 ebooks will triple to $3 billion industry – [link]. Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You – [link].

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

As part of this, TechStars announced the TechStars Network , an affiliation of TechStars-like programs across the country along with our commitment to the Startup America Partnership to help 5000 experienced mentors work with 6000 entrepreneurs to create 25,000 new jobs by 2015.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2015

And it hopes to grow its company size as well as add support for more platforms in 2015. “We really think the way to get someone interested in investing is to make it a daily habit,” Robinhood cofounder Vladimir Tenev told Benzinga. And similar to Quirky , community members can vote on the best products.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. While you may not know Bobby, this is a huge add for CU Boulder and the Boulder Startup Community. Bobby has a long history with CU Boulder.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2018

Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? In rural communities, the Department of Agriculture also can be a resource. by Maria E.

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View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. These companies have a long way to go until global dominance in many cases, but they are all growing, hiring, and strengthening the local community right now.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). Bullish in this space since 2015 I see the air cover in place for institutions and private wealth managers to now take the plunge. No, but close. 9/ MR (mixed reality) finds a killer use case.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

We are a community that is always in beta, that’s how you get things done,” says Kalu Yala’s founder Jimmy Stice. Tactivate founder Jesse Levin brought guests on private helicopter rides on the last day of the event.). The team will then continue to build 20 houses per year starting in 2015.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. In 2015, Nelly received the honor to be chosen as one of Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” in the category of food and wine.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

He also didn’t believe in supporting the community and supporting local organizations through our skills. More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. On the 4th of July, 2015, I shared my vision with Erin.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 30, 2016

In 2015, businesses owned by women brought in more than $1.5 Successful women in the investment community need to be on the lookout for them and support them by funding, giving access to resources or simple advising. Share A census in 2012 found that 36% of all businesses were owned by women – a number which has steadily increased.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. We moved our company from Michigan to Baltimore in 2015, and it was a great decision for us.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. We have some announcements set for 2015. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Let that ideal co-founder find you. Start building your customer community early. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/15/2015. I see too many investor pitches, and even executive summaries that ramble on for many pages without a clear message. Start today.

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