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SXSW Pitch Finalist: LexSet

Austin Startup

In January, LexSet, one of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , won third place (and $250,000) in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge , a nationwide search for solid 5G innovations that could be commercialized using its low latency, high bandwidth millimeter wave 5G network. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

Hello Alice is a free, data-driven, and multichannel platform helping small business owners on their entrepreneurial journey by providing access to relevant funding networks and technical assistance tools while increasing owner success rates. 12:50] So how does the process work for businesses who want to join Hello Alice? [13:37]

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Are Incubators Really Necessary for Startup Success?

ReadWriteStart

Twice a year, every tech website seems to devote lavish coverage to just what startups made it into Y Combinator ’s latest class. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings. For those of us actually bent on founding our own startups, the coverage creates mixed feelings.

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Opportunity Hub Partners with Capital Factory To Bridge Opportunity Gap

Austin Startup

A systems-wide approach to operationalize diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the startup ecosystem is required and must be built from the ground by communities of color with the support and investment of all. The business model is simple.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

Many of you have probably read by now that I am returning from Austin to my roots in Atlanta. This will not be a personal essay about that move, which is motivated by family and opportunity, but it does give me reason to address the decision process about where to locate your startup. You are, after all, attempting to run a business.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The decentralization conversation in blockchain is more of a libertarian ideology than information architecture — most of the people talking about decentralization are libertarian quacks rallying up thoughts of not being beholden to tyranny and has nothing to do with actually implementing decentralized networks.

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The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs - Startups.

Tim Keane

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Steve Belkin , owner of the Atlanta Hawks, couldn't get his first deal financed and wound up cobbling together a friends and family round to start his travel company in the 70s. Funding startups. Startup ideas. Resources for startups. Check credentials. Google Ads.