Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

(Almost) everything you need to know (but are afraid to ask) before you wistfully ask a product manager to coffee so they will help you find a job. TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies.

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MAY 13, 2018

Edwards University (3001 South Congress Avenue in Austin). Named after the pioneering leader in web accessibility who taught at the University of Texas, John Slatin AccessU provides immediately useable information for designers, developers, project managers, administrators and content creators.

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JULY 22, 2017

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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OCTOBER 23, 2019

Austin Startup Week , spanning from September 22–26, flourished with learning opportunities and thought-provoking discussions that left us wanting more. From tips on international expansion strategies to using XR as a musical instrument, these sessions at Capital Factory showcased some amazing innovation in Austin’s startup community.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

ProductCamp Austin bringing the product community together. It is a free, volunteer run conference to help participants build skills and expand product management and product marketing knowledge. I attended with the goal of gaining insights on the Product Management world, and to meet and hear the stories of others who showed up.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In that spirit, I want to share some of my top resources for female entrepreneurs in Austin?—?the a chunk of time that has both whizzed by and felt like I’ve been doing this my whole life. What does that look like?

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AUGUST 13, 2018

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! These are 3 successful Austin CEOs who have built significant consumer-facing tech businesses. We reached out to the M.io Four successful female company founders?—?Shayna

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 28, 2020

“People, in general, take for granted the number of services and capabilities every day that are space-based,” said Jah, director of the Advanced Sciences and Technology Research in Astronautics (ASTRIA) program at The University of Texas at Austin. And Space […].

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AUGUST 19, 2018

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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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Car giant General Motors announced today plans to hire 500 people for a new Information Technology Innovation Center in Austin. The Detroit auto maker is looking for software developers, project managers, database experts, business analyts and other IT workers to staff its new center.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Office managers are the heart and soul of every organization. What’s more, besides all the industry-based technical skills an office manager has to possess, there are other generic qualities they should have in the bag, such as time management. This allows you to stay focus on oversight and management.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2021

Strap Technologies, the groundbreaking company headquartered in Austin, Texas with a mission to become the world’s first substitute for the white cane, has announced that Natalia Ferriz will join the rapidly expanding team as Marketing Director. With a $50 USD deposit now, the remainder is due prior to shipping later this year.

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Austin Startup

JULY 15, 2017

Screen capture of a rather “familiar” article on Texas Monthly’s website It’s now been exactly a month since I published an article about RideAustin , one of the local ride-hail startups that launched in Austin last year after Uber and Lyft left town. (NB: In rough chronological order, here’s what’s gone down since the piece went online.

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AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. 4 LAUNCH EVENT FOR NEW BOOK ‘SELL MORE FASTER’ (AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —?Aug. Voltron Room (701 Brazos, Austin, Texas 78701) that same day. Austin, TX?—? Austin, TX Nov. 30, 2019; source: Juice Consulting) ? —? RSVP here Sept.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Last week RideAustin’s two most senior executives — CEO Andy Tryba and COO Marisa Goldenberg —  published a Medium piece detailing “what they learned” during the first week following Uber’s and Lyft’s return to the Austin market, given that their ride volume immediately fell by 55 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

AcxiomAcxiom Logo, a publicly traded enterprise data, analytics and software-as-a-service company, today announced that it will be opening a new office in Austin, Texas, to accommodate growing demand in its technology, engineering and operations. Enterprise acxiom hiring'

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AUGUST 17, 2017

*Click here to see before & after pictures* My Background I moved to Austin right after college in 2012. Despite not having a stable salaried job, I was determined to buy a house in Austin. After a few years, a career change, and a lot of trial and error, I was finally able to buy my own house in Austin.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Red Method is one of the most innovative digital agencies in Austin, and we’re happy to have their support. Event Registration Online for Austin Tech Happy Hour – March 2011 powered by Eventbrite. The best part is that this is not an official SXSW event, so you don’t need a badge in order to attend!

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SiliconHills

JULY 10, 2021

billion Gigafactory in Austin to make trucks and other vehicles, but Tesla Energy is also creating a solar-powered local neighborhood. Last week, Tesla Energy announced the first Tesla Solar neighborhood called SunHouse at Easton Park, 12 miles east of downtown Austin. Tesla is working with Brookfield Asset Management […].

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Austin-based Hypergiant Industries, which is focused on creating new products using artificial intelligence for businesses, has hired a heavy-hitter in the software industry, Mohammed Farooq, as its new Chief Technology Officer and GM Products. He previously worked as general manager with IBM Global Technology Services where he […].

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Procore Technologies increased its footprint in Austin last week with its acquisition of Esticom, an Austin-based estimating software company. Procore, which has more than 500 employees in Austin, makes construction management software.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

By LAURA LOREKPublisher of Silicon Hills News The Founder Institute opened in Austin a little over a year ago and has already graduated three classes and helped dozens of entrepreneurs. Martin Martinez, managing director, joined with fellow directors Elisa Sepulveda and Paul O’Brien to launch Founder Institute Austin.

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JULY 15, 2010

We’re throwing our summer happy hour at The Dogwood (formerly Mother Egan’s) and we’d like to invite you to come out and join us and the rest of the Austin technology community. Event management for Austin Tech Happy Hour Summer Event powered by Eventbrite. You can pre-register for $7.50 or pay $10 cash at the door.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 28, 2017

Ignite and the City of Austin’s Communications and Technology Management Department. August 31 is GigaTECHs App Competition was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The prize money is made possible by U.S

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Evocalize Opens New Office In Austin, Texas To Support Growing Demand for Its Collaborative Marketing Platform Evocalize today announced the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas, giving the company the ideal environment to scale its go-to-market reach and gain access to Austin’s unique talent pool.

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MARCH 7, 2018

It’s a big priority in Austin and at Capital Factory, too. Her day job is Head of Commercialization but she is also the Director of Diversity & Inclusion at Capital Factory, leading the Austin Diversity Council and advocating for women and LBGTQ in tech.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 31, 2020

Stoplight, which manages application development software for companies, announced this week that it has raised $6 million in additional funding. The Austin-based startup closed its Series A round of funding co-led by Next Coast Ventures and Bill Wood Ventures. To date, Stoplight has raised $10 million.

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APRIL 23, 2020

The goal of this post is to encourage Austin to implement a system that makes it practical to test everyone each day when they arrive at work or school. The impact on some sectors has been especially severe: Austin hotel rooms booked?—?down down 97%: Austin Business Journal Restaurant revenue is down 73%?—?despite

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SiliconHills

APRIL 24, 2019

And Austin-based Affinegy, a 13-year-old company that creates software to manage Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things, has been at the forefront of the industry. The post Austin-based Affinegy is Acquired by NISC appeared first on SiliconHills. This […].

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OCTOBER 4, 2020

“Austin is Silicon Valley’s cooler, younger sibling that is on the rise” says Sputnik ATX Managing Partner and CEO Dr. Oksana Malysheva. “I The Forrest Files: October 1, 2020 Dr. Oksana Malysheva is an Austin-based investor, entrepreneur and business executive. She was born and raised in Ukraine and the Soviet Union.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 28, 2024

Aaron Thweatt, a former employee of AECOM, Activision Blizzard, SpaceX, and DoorDash, founded Respark Coaching to empower individuals to manage conversations effectively. He also […]

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. Austin, this time?—?to Bianca graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with degrees in Supply Chain Management and Hispanic Studies.

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SiliconHills

MAY 15, 2019

MassChallenge Texas announced it has accepted 74 startups into its latest program in Austin which kicks off in June. The startups hail from five countries, 14 states and five industries, said Mike Millard, managing director of MassChallenge Texas.

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JUNE 5, 2018

October 2: InnoTech Austin If you have a creativity-focused event that you want listed in this space, then please contact hugh at sxsw dot com. Startup Weekend HackOut, June 7-10 was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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