Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link]. Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks | TechCrunch – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where campaigns to build brand awareness and generate top-of-funnel sales drive traditional marketing, data across the entire customer lifecycle drives growth hacking in marketing.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. Commercial: business naming, slogans, commercial campaigns, public relations, advertorials. Web content: Personal and company blogs, feeds, community bulletins. Browse through your Google Docs.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Thus began my marketing campaign. We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country. billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Social networking is a very important marketing channel at some startups – [link]. So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups. Amazon’s secret $90 million ad campaign – [link]. Nearly 50% of surveyed retail shoppers use social networks – [link]. Ad Networks Next?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. We both loved this company (and lamented the fact that we weren’t investors since they were founded in LA before relocating to Silicon Valley). Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network.

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The Next Web

JULY 6, 2013

You don’t have to be located in Silicon Valley to take part in a great startup community. If you’re motivated enough to start your own business and create something great from a simple idea, then you’re certainly motivated enough to jumpstart a local startup community. Why worry about a startup community?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council. She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

But once again, Brian and his team showed a remarkable ability to adapt, and they did so in a way that preserved the health of the entire network of Airbnb. I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do we cut through the news in the disinformation campaign? He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

Matt, Jeff, and I believed that there was an opportunity to bring market dynamics and workflow automation to the freight markets…better visibility into prices, access to a broader network of providers, eliminating the human error component in order entry, etc. Can you share an overview of what you discovered?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

But once again, Brian and his team showed a remarkable ability to adapt, and they did so in a way that preserved the health of the entire network of Airbnb. I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders. Very easy to use and share. I am not associated with the company. Reply Dave Jafari , on April 10, 2011 at 10:11 am said: Great list Steve. Reply Faren , on April 11, 2011 at 1:40 am said: Hi Steve, Thanks for adding my ipod, ipad and web wireframe template post to your list.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. The Past (1985-2002).

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. I went to excellent public schools (so-called science magnets) that had computer classes, which meant they had networked computers that I could use. Ill explain in a moment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2017

I’ve long been a big fan of partnering with not for profits in your community. (I There are so many organizations that need and deserve our support and by partnering you further cement your business as a community asset. Hannay has experience in Silicon Valley, Hollywood and independent consulting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve long been a big fan of partnering with not for profits in your community. (I There are so many organizations that need and deserve our support and by partnering you further cement your business as a community asset. Hannay has experience in Silicon Valley, Hollywood and independent consulting.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics. Share/Bookmark.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 12, 2015

We aren’t some Silicon Valley giant. I decided to start Noble Brewer to give great homebrewers an easy and legal way to share what they love doing and to give craft beer lovers a way to try amazing beers that the homebrewing community is creating. Pathak, Relationship Center of Silicon Valley ! Thanks to Shirani M.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. That’s why i haven chosen to start working in Network marketing and MLM. We also provide custom campaigns for companies looking for something a bit more expansive. Check out our starter program.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Ning Communities. Campaign Monitor. Aretta Communications. web analytics measure marketing campaigns. SEO and campaign management tool. Campaigner - email marketing suite. Campaign Monitor â?? Create your own social network. free enterprise social network.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The East London area of Shoreditch, near old street is now known as “ Silicon Roundabout ” the UK’s rival to California’s Silicon Valley, which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London, the traditionally poorer part of the city, before the Olympics. Share/Bookmark.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

Before starting Cirrus Insight, Brandon was director of gifts and grants at Maryville College, and operations manager of Rangefire Integrated Networks. The real driver was that we wanted to fund the café without borrowing money, so we decided to spend these three years doing a capital campaign. It helped us get our brand out there.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2017

Here’s my take on the primary misreads RideAustin has made regarding both Austinites and the city’s transportation network company (TNC) marketplace — many of which also apply to its local nemesis, Fasten: 1. The Silicon Valley giants have been able to come back into a market they abandoned with very little effort.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other. A bit like Silicon Valley. While Topshop have opened in Nordstrom. It was anti-social in nature.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 25, 2011

Q&A communities have become grown in popularity in recent years with consumer and business offerings being developed at a blistering pace and established players emerging with their own offerings. I am most interested in the generalized Q&A communities, not the expert networks. Search and Q&A are Different.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

By the end of this article, you should have a better understanding of how to develop new products or tweak your existing offerings by working with existing or prospective customers to incorporate their feedback to create viable solutions to their problems, and clearly communicate their value. So What is Customer Development? Follow @peeplaja.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I offered to help him market his services through 1M/1M, since his target customer base overlaps rather nicely with the 1M/1M community. To begin with, today, I gave her a set of immediate action items, including starting a blog, a PPC campaign with some ideas on how to position her keywords, as well as some guidance on merchandising.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It Instead, Silicon Beach, a roughly 3-mile stretch of sand from Venice to Santa Monica , is home to Viddy and a host of other young tech companies with an entertainment, celebrity or mobile edge. Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

DemoTunes is proposed to be a LinkedIn of the music industry where a million plus musicians would be uploading music, getting feedback from their community, as well as, and more importantly, from talent scouts and connoisseurs who can help them further their careers. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro. the FEC deals with campaign finance information, regulating and disclosing all that information. Javier explained how the SBA helps drive entrepreneurship in the U.S.:

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most publishers are still caught up in an outdated “vision vs. metrics&# argument, which is already obsolete here in Silicon Valley. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. Eric, First of all, great post.

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