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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #2: What’s in a name?

Austin Startup

grow into international markets, other industry verticals, and other product lines). we would not be limited by geography, industry verticals, or expanding into new product lines (data is a truly huge industry with no TAM, or total available market, limitations). Austin Ventures hated the name. and hopefully?—?grow

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Dreamit is to me a shining example of this vertical approach. Or, you can just let it be a party. Your choice.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Are Media Sites Fundable?

ReadWriteStart

Misty Gibbs from Austin, Texas, presented Empower Lounge , a concept for a website that focuses on offering inspirational content along four major vectors: work, health, play and giving. The company that has successfully monetized in the women vertical is Glam Media, but their model is of a Vertical Ad Network. Be careful!

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Q&A Wednesday :: GuruStorms

Austin Startup

GuruStorms is a new brainstorming site that offers a unique crowdsourcing solution: a curated crowd of gurus that represent the world’s best and brightest online experts. Tags: Consumer austin Featured gurustorms SXSW. Q: Give us the elevator pitch that you gave at SXSW Accelerator?

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. While the company is not primarily a marketplace, each order is hand-curated by a work-at-home “stylist” who works part-time on their own schedule from the comfort of their own home.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

” Introduced a few months ago as an Austin event, I’m now doing this live audio advice column to the web, taking phone calls from startups around the country. And if you did make one that was kind of like these three, in that vertical, you’d be awesome. It’s Episode 3 my little “ Loveline for startups.

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