Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2019

Funding early-stage resources?—?how The number of female-owned businesses has grown 58% from 2017 to 2018 (compared to 12% increase for all other businesses), and the number of black-female-owned businesses was 3x that (by the way, to add insult to injury they raised only 0.0006% of the total venture dollars pool). do they ever?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. While early-stage companies have all of their engineers working on product innovation, companies that want to scale realize that you also have to build systems to help with organizational scaling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Since 2021, Upfront returned more than $600 million to LPs and returned more than $1 billion since 2018. Obviously the funding environment has changed considerably in 2022 but as early-stage investors our daily jobs stay largely unchanged.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Especially in the early stages of growth, standing up to competition means that your business also needs to minimize the cost of acquiring new customers. Launched at the start of 2018, our affiliate program has been an integral part of our marketing strategy ever since. It’s not enough that your business has product/market fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. Secrets of Sand Hill Road.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 11, 2018

I am so excited and hopeful for 2018. But one of the things I’ve noticed through investing in seed startups these past few years is that early stage funding is incredibly skewed towards certain types of founders or ideas. This is because these founders didn’t fit what most early stage investors were looking for.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 11, 2018

I am so excited and hopeful for 2018. But one of the things I’ve noticed through investing in seed startups these past few years is that early stage funding is incredibly skewed towards certain types of founders or ideas. This is because these founders didn’t fit what most early stage investors were looking for.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Date: Fri March 9, 2018 Time: 11:00 AM?—?12:00 Date: Sat March 10, 2018 Time: 12:30 PM? The Food+City Challenge Prize is an international competition among early stage business startups encouraging innovation in the urban food system. Date: Tues March 13, 2018 Time: 9:30 AM?—?10:30

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

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. Just because something didn’t occur as planned last year doesn’t mean that it can’t have a desired outcome in 2018. Think about that.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

That’s a reason why some are quick to portend “a new bubble” but this post sets out to show that would be a misunderstanding of the market and in fact by historic levels this may be amongst the best times to invest in seed and early-stage funds. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It also turns out that embracing AR is very good for commerce conversion. In comparing 2019 with 2018, according to Hired “ global demand for AR/VR engineers up by 1,400%, gaming developers up 146%, security engineers up 49% but slower than in 2018 ” Global demand for AR engineers, 2019 compared to 2018.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 11, 2018

Developing a cohesive strategy: think about opportunities before, during, and after conversion. Automation sent post-conversion to check in on the experience, offer guidance, provide links to information, or encourage repeat purchases. Early on in the decision-making process, potential customers want to learn more about you.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. SXSW Panel: Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups Arlan ????

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This post is inspired by some of the earliest conversations I have had with the team here at NextView and since the beginning of my VC journey. Back in 2018, my colleague Rob wrote a blog post about how the VC asset class is doing. For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 2, 2018

All were published between 2016 and 2018. Using electroencephalography (EEG) to measure event-related potential (ERP) waveforms, the researchers found that negative framing generated the most activity in the early cognitive stage—but that same heightened level of interest also led to more difficult decision making.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

You can read more about this in Biggest Product Packaging Design Trends In 2018. By fostering and participating in these conversations, savvy businesses stay deeply in touch with their consumers’ interests, wants, and dislikes. The demand for organic beauty products is expected to grow to over $13 billion dollars by 2018.

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

At Kleiner specifically, after slowly shedding the “green” energy practice (more on that below), the growth team (led by Mary Meeker, more on her below) worked with the early-stage team, which is in rebuild-mode as Doerr eventually stepped aside. 6/ Big GP Losses: This part is simple. Those two alone are huge.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Startups from across Texas, around the United States and all over the world who are aiming to launch a new product, service or app in the first quarter of 2018 are also reminded to apply for SXSW Release It. The application deadline for this competition is 11:59 pm Pacific Time on Friday, January 19.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 1, 2022

Xenia has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and she spoke on the Innovation Stage at Cannes Lions in 2018. I think I, I was just having a conversation with my co-founder today on this topic. Xenia has been recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and she spoke on the Innovation Stage at Cannes Lions in 2018.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Instead of party-hopping, attendees had more substantive conversations about the future. The half hour conversation is worth a view. There were no surprises in there, and my take is that the conversation re-iterates the agency is studying the nascent digital asset industry closely after their initial slow start in 2017.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The book is also full of very practical early-stage marketing advice so you can break through the noise. Step Three: You need to think big or you will quickly fall into the pattern of being a first-stage entrepreneur (I describe the stages of entrepreneurship in this Lucky7 post ). We are glad we did.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In 2018 we published our first Accelerator Diversity report with a similar opening statement and our feelings haven’t changed. In 2018 we hired Savannah Barker as our first DEI Coordinator and she turned our diversity summits into a scalable and effective tool. We know things won’t get better without intentional effort.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In 2018 we published our first Accelerator Diversity report with a similar opening statement and our feelings haven’t changed. In 2018 we hired Savannah Barker as our first DEI Coordinator and she turned our diversity summits into a scalable and effective tool. We know things won’t get better without intentional effort.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. — Rand Fishkin (@randfish) October 12, 2018. — Ryan Hoover (@rrhoover) October 12, 2018.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Jim moved to Austin at the end of 2018 and has already become one of the most active venture investors. “I Why Jim Breyer? Jim Breyer has spent his career on the cutting edge.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 12, 2018 At the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11, 50 startups from around the world will attempt to impress a panel of judges. What does your startup hope to achieve in 2018? What is team most excited about at SXSW 2018? We had unfinished business.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Perot Jain , one of the most active early stage venture firms in Texas, is joining DivInc and The DEC to support our $100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Challenge and help us get the word out as far and wide as possible! Perot Jain, LP is an early stage venture capital firm founded by Ross Perot Jr. Ross Perot, Jr.,

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. And I think it’s ironic that today, we were just having a conversation with the great J.J. TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

says Ramaswamy, who joined Greylock in 2018 following 15 years at Google, where he ran the company’s massive advertising business. You can listen to the podcast here, and read the full transcript of the conversation below. And I think it’s ironic that today, we were just having a conversation with the great J.J. TRANSCRIPT.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I really enjoy our conversations and am especially glad you’re up for some candor, because it’ll help provide some insight into the state of the startup and funding market. Our team joined BC in 2018, and less than 6 months after that BC was acquired by Autodesk , where I continued on for about a year.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Konstantinos says, “As we were validating the value of our solution and recruiting early adopters, we started talking to a few VC firms. 4 Reasons to Brand Your Business.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In fact, to achieve your aggressive growth goals in the face of uncertainty and change, you need to follow a new set of rules that fly in the face of what is taught in business schools and are completely counterintuitive to accepted “best practices” of either early stage startups or classic corporate management. Rule #1: Embrace Chaos.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund visited Texas in 2018 when their seventh bus tour made a stop in Dallas. Revolution brought the Rise of the Rest bus tour to Dallas in 2018, and it’s no surprise that our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has since made 15 investments in the state, among the highest for any state in the country.

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