Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 7, 2017 The strength of the Central Texas technology / startup scene helps SXSW thrive as an epicenter of innovation. Monday, May 8: Grimoire Con 2017 North America This conference shows GrimoireLab updates, use cases and practical workshop/s for developers, community managers, project managers, etc.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: August 20, 2017 More than any other mayor in the history of Austin, Steve Adler has courted and created strong ties with the city’s tech and startup community. Another notable this week is the “ Capital Factory Women in Tech Summit 2017 ” on Wednesday, August 23.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The eCommerce industry is growing steadily, with a 24% increase in the number of digital transactions from 2016 to 2017. Founded by Aron Schwarzkopf and Sebastian Castro , Kushki is improving payment systems in Latin America by facilitating currency conversions and international transfers across the region. Industry gaps.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

By early 2017, some publishers had had enough. Google ended FCF in October 2017, shifting the responsibility of metering and experimentation back to publishers. Flexible Sampling (2017). Metering does allow sites to segment users who hit your paywall—a key audience for conversion optimization. hard sell for diet pills).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

General Partners Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp are fixtures in the startup community, and especially in driving forward female entrepreneurship. of deal-making partners in venture capital and 3% of venture-backed company CEOs being women.” - Letter from the Founding General Partner, 09/1/2015. Currently, they’ve raised $19.1m

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2017

Where do you see Platinum Rapid Funding Group going in 2017? By the end of 2017, we foresee associating with a lot more industries and businesses. Currently, we are partnering with startups and helping fledgling firms blossom to their widest potential. And Beyond? We’ve just started – 2012 was just five years ago.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2018

Brian Sheth, the Co-Founder & President of Vista Equity Partners will served as the keynote speaker for this event. Photo above from Silicon Hills News captures many of these winners from the 2017 ceremony. The emcee for this event is Doreen Lorenzo , who is the Assistant Dean of the School of Design at the University of Texas.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. Welcome to our annual boldstart recap and enterprise predictions letter. First check to Series B?—?congrats

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

As a company, we participated in 2017 in the Startup areas and we were also a part of the Team Quebec’s exhibit. It was an incredible experience for three of our partners?—?myself, Among these were AWE 2017 and AWE Europe 2017. I was also a panel participant on immersive entertainment at AWE Europe in October 2017.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Daimler will build upon their successful cross-divisional collaboration around the hackathon and jointly follow-up on the ideas to continue their conversations with some of the teams on how to further develop their concepts into usable tools for Daimler’s 289,000+ employees.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Most significant indicator of this growth is the fact that many of the startups on the list have raised next round of funding with the total funds closed above $50 Million just in 2017. Funding and Updates June 2017 was good for both Manoj Saxena led AI startups, CognitiveScale and SparkCognition which had the lions share of the funds raised.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Partner up. Latinos in particular are more likely to be organized as sole proprietorships, but by getting a partner you will have a whole new network to work with and have help in getting your startup off the ground. Published March 15, 2017. Accessed September 18, 2017. Sources Olsen D. PitchBook News. 2016;54:210–228.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2018

in the second quarter of 2017 vs. the prior year. Conversely, home sellers want to cut a deal before high interest rates thin the pool of qualified buyers. When you’re buying a home, you need to trust your mortgage partners. The Growth of Mortgage Fraud. Mortgage fraud is a growing problem. Stick to Credible Referrals.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Two of them made some major product directional changes based on the founder’s judgment and the feedback he was getting from partners and customers. None of us can un-ring the bell for whatever happened in 2017, but we can decide now to improve in 2018. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 28, 2017

Satya wrote up Year Four – 2017 so rather than repeat what he covered, let me add just two personal observations. I Like Satya, Our Founders, Our Investors and Homebrew’s Model – If I wasn’t doing Homebrew, I likely wouldn’t be the 3rd, 7th or 11th partner at someone else’s fund.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2019

Nike’s B2B arm, on the other hand, partners with select brick-and-mortar apparel retailers, including high-end boutiques for its limited edition sneakers and chains like Foot Locker for its popular Jordan line. Conversion. What types of micro-conversions produce the highest lead values? Are visitors turning into leads?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. Complete our product pilot with our new partners, Grupo Bimbo, in designing a sweetener of the future for the baked goods industry.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

and we are already building a strong network of partners and customers. At the same time, we are looking for strategic partners and investors to help us maximize our market presence and adoption. We started drafting the CargoX idea in August 2017, out of the desire to simplify the paper-plagued world of Bill of Lading documents.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 31, 2017

By Mary Scott Nabers | 10/30/2017 Startup companies of all types are hot topics today. With a startup partner, the city was able to develop a platform to extract data from all available city information repositories, track trends, handle registrations and alert citizens to upcoming programs of interest. Kansas City, Mo.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

In 2017 we began inserting an “Inclusion Clause” into our term sheets because we believe that the culture one establishes at the earliest stages of one’s business will set out the course of how it will grow and develop. We inserted the Inclusion Clause because in the midst of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements we wanted to take some action.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners spoke to this initial slow down: “ We couldn’t do anything until we understood the new normal. Of the eight venture capitalists we interviewed, six commented that they felt more efficient and were able to have more early conversations during this period than before.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We are very thankful and humbled at the trust our customers, partners and employees put into the Good Dog Labs and Lighthouse brands. In 2017, both my brother Dino and I purchased homes in the Austin area. New England has been good to me?—?I After all, I started my life journey in “Tejas”. It was time to come home.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

But we also frequently find ourselves at the other end of the table, looking for talented folks for our own projects or as partners to build solutions. Inkclear for 36 Days of Type in 2017 They Improve Our Processes My mother used to say to me that the people who are the busiest also seem to have the most time.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

I met my CSO/cofounder Andra Necula in November 2017 through the help of the biggest nonprofit in our industry: The Good Food Institute. While she and I worked to define our technical vision, we also had long conversations about our values. How and when did your team come together? My role as startup CEO is ideal for me.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. I had a lot of great conversations this year—not all of them were easy or comfortable, but they were real. Let’s start with my fundraising timeline.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2024

We partnered with them for their Brisbane show in 2022 as a trial and supplied staff to run the features at the Brisbane show. Looking back to when I started in business in 2017 to where we are today lights me up. Thanks to Melissa Ahlquist, Little Biz ! #2- We have now served over 1600 people from every continent, except Antarctica.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

in October 2017. People looking to drive true change and evolution in the Media Tech sector whether it’s investors, product owners from corporates, or potential partners. We also won second place at the Startups@Reeperbahn Festival 2017 in Hamburg, Germany, which we are really proud of. We are planning to enter the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

To discuss this seismic shift, Rodolfo Gonzalez, partner at Foundation Capital and one of the only major Silicon Valley investors from Mexico, will be joined by the CEOs of Rappi, Bitso, and Runa HR?—?three Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. What gives? Vanessa Dawson, Integris Software C.E.O,

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

SXSW and Edelman have partnered to launch a special report of the Trust Barometer?—?Edelman’s Room 211–212 Sunday, March 11 Social Airbag with Spredfast CEO Rod Favaron Social networks were under fire in 2017 following foreign interference of the 2016 US election. March 10, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM 6:00PM JW Marriott?—?Room Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The commitment to their nurses and clients has contributed to a 30% annual growth rate allowing them to gross revenue of $56,543,000 in 2017. PK advises one to learn to convince and negotiate during difficult conversations. Coasting on Auto Pilot … Linda Murphy, VP Client Sales of AMN Healthcare.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There are few bigger stages than SXSW to reach the financiers, partners and other supporters that we will need to be successful, and few with an audience as likely to be sensitized to the importance of what we are trying to achieve. I joined in March 2017. and we can’t do it by ourselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Take the time to explore new ideas and have deep conversations with creative people about things you enjoy. If you don’t enjoy the financial side of your business, find a partner to be creative there, so you can be creative in yours. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/23/2017.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

From 2015 to 2017, I flew 80,000 miles. After commiserating with my business partner, Romain Aubanel, who was my boss at the time, we discovered we both thought business travel could and should be better. Since that conversation, I’ve been a big fan of the concept of bleisure travel. That’s three times around the globe.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

How would you describe your primary business objective in 2017?”. We’ve had this conversation, or one similar to it, many times of late… enough that it prompted a question in our minds. by Jason Green, CEO at The Cambridge Group , and Linda Deeken, CMO at The Cambridge Group. Profitable Growth.”. What do you mean?

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