Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2017

A poem from our very own CF-Poe at Sputnik ATX on the Austin Startup Crawl Startups are everywhere and that isn’t changing soon: 99.7% 4 This is important and highly encouraged along every step of the way in your product development process. Keep pivoting until you have a product that works, then you can scale.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 3, 2012

The product manager who was driving whispered, “For years that said no one needs off-line setup. The same thing happened on Friday in Austin. The product manager described the metamorphosis: We gathered that night at the hotel, but we were changed. Humility had crumbled the walls between marketing and engineering.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

Dear Shareholder, Happy Monday from Austin! Team morale is high, we are exceeding the [REDACTED] KPI by several months, burn went up faster than expected, and product development is ticking along well except for one hiccup. So rather than just sharing that redacted update with them, I will share it with the world.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. It is surrounded by free tools and services such as career postings, a document development tool from our partner doDOC™, preprint server, equipment and grants. This is an exciting time for the Company!

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities. Prior to this Series B, the company had already achieved meaningful scale but had raised only $15M in capital to date.

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SiliconHills

JULY 13, 2017

Austin-based LiveOak Venture Partners led the funding round. The company plans to use the money on product development, customer support and marketing. “We The post Austin-based Telestax Lands $4.7 Telestax announced this week it has raised $4.7 million in funding.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? To summarize: Anything that can be copied will be copied, including features, marketing copy, and pricing.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Austin, TX Fast forward 4 years later, here I am working for a startup at the South By South West Tech & Music festival in Austin, TX. SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. “What are you going to do now?”

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Advocates for diversity and inclusion (D&I) want to see a greater commitment to inclusion in product development and diversity in global employment and hiring practices. What’s the third largest market segment in the U.S.?

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 2, 2019

The Austin-based startup plans to use the funding for global sales and marketing expansion and product development. LiveOak Venture Partners of Austin led the Series B funding round. TalentGuard, a career and talent management software startup, announced this week it has raised $4 million.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

In fact, for the semi-curious as well as die-hard fans of UFC, you’ll get your first opportunity to attend an Austin-local event on September 15 , with a full program beginning at 8 pm, central, at the Frank Erwin center. It’s among the highest trafficked sites in its category, providing training videos, tips and techniques.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 16, 2014

Social media compliance and marketing experts Socialware today announced Matt Roberts has joined the company''s leadership team as Vice President of Product Development, reporting to CEO Ken Naumann. Enterprise socialware'

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

BATTLE FOR VALUE: NATIONAL VS ONLINE MARKETS SXSW EDU | Track: Policy & Civic Engagement Speakers: Richard Garrett, Eduventures Chief Research Officer at ACT | NRCCUA The Pitch: Does the future favor national or local online markets? as well as strategies for founders in raising capital and marketing to the public.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. We didn’t expect that they would come close to products currently on the market?—?but The biggest challenges have generally been around product development in a biotech product.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. Carmen Hijosa of Pinatex, Amanda Parkes of NYC Fashion Tech, and me, Melanie DiSalvo.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 12, 2014

OutboundEngine, an email, social media and content marketing platform, has closed an $11 million Series B funding round led by Silverton Partners. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money on office expansion, product development and new vertical markets.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 16, 2018

Earlier this year at the FUND Conference in Austin, Texas, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The Austin conference was the inaugural Texas event after several successful Chicago FUND Conference events. Describe the Yip Yap product/service in 10 words or less.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For Neopets, its simply a side-effect of their game-like product design. Either way, you can use any marketing channel thats available to bring in new customers, including word of traditional advertising, SEO, SEM - wherever you can find prospects who are going to find your product addicting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. Today, Calxeda announces three significant executive team additions: Karl Freund, formerly of IBM and Hewlett-Packard, as Vice President of Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

As I talked about in a previous interview, IMVUs original MVP took us six months to bring to market. Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Robert August 25, 2009 5:25 AM Bernard said. Thanks Eric, great blog!

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SiliconHills

JUNE 6, 2017

Activate Venture Partners, based in New York, and LiveOak Venture Partners in Austin led the Series B financing round. The Austin-based startup plans to use the money on marketing and product development. Digital Pharmacist announced Tuesday that it has closed on a $6.5 million round of financing.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 7, 2018

A recent article “Bay Area Bay Area’s High Costs Drive Away Some Tech Firms” details numerous examples of Silicon Valley start-ups that are moving their headquarters or opening a second location in places like Austin, Denver and Atlanta – and many engineers, marketers, even executives are considering moving.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. We know some products succeed and others fail, but the reasons are complex and the unpredictable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

What’s worse is that as you grow you’ve probably developed some pretty bad habits as far as setting priorities and strategy: like thinking you’re a genius - just because you got funded - and that genius is what allows you to *know* what the market wants. I remember having this exact same "aha!"

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Luckily, Chad Austin has recently weighed in with an excellent piece called 10 Pitfalls of Dirty Code. This development philosophy created a culture around rapid prototyping of features, followed by testing them against large numbers of actual customers. It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Venkat leads business strategy, partnerships and marketing functions at CodeLathe. He comes with over 15 years of experience as a Product Development Manager at Schlumberger and as a Product Manager at Garmin. Venkat holds a MBA from UT Austin and a Master of Science in Information Systems from Texas Tech University.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. We were using it to get features to market faster, and that was working well.

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 3, 2013

By ANDREW MOORE Reporter with Silicon Hills News After three weeks of intense product development, market research, business creation, mentor consultation, and presentation practice, a group of young entrepreneurs took the floor at Geekdom in San Antonio to present their new startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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