Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

I started making predictions for the decade ahead in 2020 , then made 2021 predictions , then 2022 predictions. This is a fun quote to start things off with because I began this journey with my 2020 predictions. I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. Bill Gates. 1: Failed it.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 13, 2020

Q1 2020 marks Reset ’s two year anniversary, from when we had our first conversation about how we could help distributed teams find affordable space to meet and work. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos kudos to ya’ll.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. All throughout 2020, people have decided now is the time to start a business. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. 18- Conversational marketing.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. As we head to 2020, Latinx will be the MAJORITY in the US. I've never been around this many Latinx in tech.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

The sudden arrival of the global pandemic has shifted the playbook for founders and venture capitalists. As high-conviction, seed stage investors, we are inherently relationship-driven, and we value meeting exceptional founders face-to-face. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 Seattle-based Syndio has a bold ambition: to eradicate unlawful pay disparities in the workplace. This SaaS company, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , enables global organizations to analyze and resolve pay gaps due to gender or race and stay in compliance over time.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 25, 2019

As for the top startups that are located in Central Texas, many of these will be honored at the annual Austin A-List Awards , which are co-presented by the Austin Area Chamber of Commerce and by SXSW. Click here to enter your startup for this competition.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Even in 2020, a difficult year by any measure, the Austin community has surpassed all of my expectations. On the entrepreneur side, founders like Brett Hurt and John Berkowitz have gone above and beyond for Breyer Capital. For example, we just announced our Mark Benioff co-investment in Richard Socher’s You.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

For example, Zappos led a revolution in online shoes and clothing, not because of any revolutionary shoe technology, but because they sensed a clothing customer obsession for customer service, including long phone conversations and unlimited free returns. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 03/19/2020.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Voting in 2020 for many people will take more time than planned, given high turnout, social distancing requirements, and COVID-19 forcing other changes to our electoral processes. It also facilitates a productive conversation beyond our echo chamber. In 2016, an estimated 100 million eligible voters did not cast a vote.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 15, 2021

In my own view, this is awesome news — because I’ve been an investor in Aurora since February 2018 when I co-led its Series A round for Greylock and joined Aurora’s board. Its three co-founders already had deep experience in the nascent AV space, with each of them playing key roles at early leaders in the field.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. The city was ranked number 6 on CBRE’s Tech Talent Report in 2020 out of 50 North American markets and is home to 5,500 startups. It’s no surprise investors are choosing to come to Austin.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

by Todd Connor, founder of Bunker Labs. The economic devastation of 2020 speaks for itself: the end of Q2 saw the highest ever recorded drop in GDP, 50 million people out of work, 12% decline in consumer spending and trillions of dollars added to the national balance sheet to try and steady us during this unprecedented time.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

This start-up is headed by industry-leading professionals including its CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, and Hillel Kobrinsky the CSO and co-founder. The company is headed by Shimon Hason, the CEO, and Erez Fliess , Omer Raviv and Alon Fliess all of whom are cofounders of the startup. oz-code.com.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Jacqueline is the f ormer Managing Partner and the Head of Strategy Story Worldwide and current founder of BrandCrudo. 19:26] 2021 is still going to be a year where people are reeling from 2020. She's a former managing partner and the head of strategy for story worldwide and the co founder of Brand Crudo.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Based in Amsterdam, Skilllab is co-founded by Azza El Hayek and Ulrich Scharf. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 17, 2020 Skilllab has a clear mission: to develop technology-based solutions to empower employment services to better integrate refugees into local labor markets. What is your top goal for Skilllab for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Maria Tanjala and Irina Albita , the co-founders of FilmChain. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 16, 2020 Maria Tanjala , co-founder of FilmChain , is passionate about tech solutions that bring transparency and automation to creative industries. What is your top goal for FilmChain for 2020? film and tech?—?and

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

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. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

On November 5th, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT, I’m co-hosting a DEIS Practicum with Rodney Sampson and the OHUB Foundation. In Rodney’s words: It is not a conversation to regurgitate the dismal data. Rodney was one of the dozen Black colleagues I reached out to after George Floyd was murdered. It is not a performative event.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

My cofounder Tom Tichy and I worked together at our former employer to conceive of and launch their first cloud-based software application. What technology would you call the Myspace of 2019…in other worlds, something we won’t be thinking so much about in 2020 and beyond?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. Ioffe founded TILE , the world’s largest conversation series, which now has more than 400 chapters and is in 49 countries. What is your top goal for Arist for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 10, 2020 Here’s the problem Arist set out to solve: too often video-based learning and training is ineffective, inaccessible, and expensive. Ioffe founded TILE , the world’s largest conversation series, which now has more than 400 chapters and is in 49 countries. What is your top goal for Arist for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Flugauto Co-Founders (left to right): Frank Noppel , CEO, Gerrit Becker , CCO, and Alexander Xydas , COO. The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 A B2B tech company, Flugauto is developing a world-class UAV platform for aerial delivery of industrial cargo for the energy industry. What is your top goal for Flugauto for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Ed Yu , CEO and co-founder of StrongSalt The Forrest Four-Cast: February 3, 2020 Is it possible for companies to protect their customers with data privacy that complies with regulations and is easy for developers to use? StrongSalt Co-Founder and CEO Ed Yu says yes it is. “Encryption sucks and we fix that.”?—?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Stine Mølgaard Sørensen, co-founder and COO for Radiobiotics, based in Copenhagen. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 29, 2020 Here’s a problem: worldwide, there aren’t enough radiologists to meet patient needs. What is your top goal for Radiobotics in 2020? All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 5, 2020

With the average transaction price at $36,000 as of early 2020, paying cash for a new car is out of reach for a lot of people. For startup founders, the sacrifices add up and don’t leave much for personal expenditures. If you’re to have any hope of success, you’ll need to know how to ask someone to co-sign a car loan.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Quicc co-founders Jason Toevs and Mike Mathia. The Forrest Four-Cast: January 31, 2020 Make video captioning easier and better in a world where audiences now watch extensively without sound. What is your top goal for Quicc for 2020? That’s the mission of Quicc , launched in 2019, in Wichita, Kansas.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2020 One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Virsix Games reimagines how people play together by remixing analogue play with cutting-edge emerging technologies such as AI, voice-activated smart speakers, augmented reality, near field communication, machine learning techniques and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. In addition, a complete transcript of our conversation follows the show resources below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In our conversation, we talked about the history and difficulties of school nutrition before the pandemic, scaling a company while having a young family, what's changed at Revolution Foods since March, and how investors and partners have supported and helped expand the company. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Left to right: Heather Shen , CTO; Melina Lopez , CPO; and Elise Smith , CEO The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2020 As the saying goes: Before you judge a person, walk a mile in their shoes. My co-founders and I all met at Stanford so Palo Alto is really where it all began. We joke that we were always running somewhere?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

We were a couple of creatives who were craving connection and conversation. After a year or two of this we decided to hit publish on our “business bestie” conversations and release them in a podcast called Being Boss. By 2020, the population of self-employed women in America will triple, growing from 5 million to 15 million.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 27, 2020 Winding Tree has created the world’s first open marketplace for travel. Winding Tree Co-Founders: CEO Maksim Izmaylov (left) and COO Pedro Anderson (right). What is your top goal for Winding Tree for 2020? How Winding Tree works to improve travel bookings.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Cove.tool CEO Sandeep Ahuja recently won a Forbes 30 under 30 award The Forrest Four-Cast: January 30, 2020 Bringing together sustainability and efficient architectural practices, the team at Cove.tool is committed to fighting climate change one building at a time. What is your top goal for CoveTool for 2020?

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