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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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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

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It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group.

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

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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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IPA: a Quiet $10B Market (Automation is En Fuego part 2)

Austin Startup

these solutions can be paired with the cultural adoption of process and operational excellence at companies looking to improve the way their business performs. In the next post in this series, we’ll examine what’s going on in the AI Business Operations space, which is an exciting, nascent space. a process mining software company?—?for

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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. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.

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The longest shortest 2 years

Austin Startup

Since our pivot, we’ve served an additional 15 companies, half of which are outside of Austin. Your partner matters To all those solo-founders out there?—?kudos I’m incredibly lucky to have found a co-founder partner whose strengths are my weaknesses, and vice versa. kudos to ya’ll.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders. This is a guest post by Scott Allison, CEO and founder of Teamly.com. I want to reflect on my experience as a non-technical founder and reassess my original decision – almost two years ago – to stick to what I’m good at, and not waste time learning to code. guest author.