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Austin-Based Perigon Raises $5 Million

SiliconHills

Austin-based Perigon has closed on a $5 million seed stage round of financing led by LiveOak Venture Partners. Josh Rickel, co-founder, said the company plans to use the money to hire key employees and further develop its technology.

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Honor Technology Closes $370 Million in Financing, Plans to Triple its Engineering and Product…

Austin Startup

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna Shayna Brown, Founder of Chez Boom Audio, Jan Ryan, Exec. We reached out to the M.io Vote ] 2. Vote ] 10.

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The Austin Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

Austin Startup

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. In the years following its implementation, the number of minorities hired to fill head-coach roles doubled. I’ve named the Walker Rule after Madam C.

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How the COVID-Preneur Led to a Micro Business Renaissance

Austin Startup

In fact, our team at Austin-based ZenBusiness , a one-stop-shop to form, run and grow a business, recently announced that more than 100,000 micro businesses have been formed using the platform since the onset of the pandemic? “It The micro business renaissance is here to stay and we are excited to be along for the journey.”

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Take 5 minutes to help other Austin entrepreneurs and vote in the SXSW Panel Picker!

Austin Startup

Being part of a community means lifting each other up and one easy way you can do that is with your mouse clicks… please take 5 minutes to go and vote for these other Austin entrepreneurs! If you are in the Austin startup community and have another panel to promote, please leave it in the comments below! Deadline to vote is August 30.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

This is the lesson that has been shared more than any other from Lucky7 over the years, and I believe it is the one that has had the biggest impact on Austin’s startup culture. It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire.