Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. 1:30PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Drew Houston.

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Reid Hoffman

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Talk with other entrepreneurs, not just famous entrepreneurs,” the Dropbox cofounder Drew Houston told Reid on the Masters of Scale podcast. I wanted to learn about safety, so I went to George Tenet, the ex-head of the CIA.”. Still, the world is full of experts who lack boldface names.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If you are currently looking for a CTO or technical co-founder, I’ve included some resources below that may help you in your search. HireStarter SPMB Stringer Executive Search The Bidding Network Whiterock Partner s Douglas Ferguson is a Fractional CTO and founder of Voltage Control. Please email douglas@voltagecontrol.co

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

It’s far less easy and takes more creativity and guts to write the rules, introducing a completely new niche of headphones designed for sleeping to the world. Jason- I love constantly learning new things to help me design and deploy effective processes in the business. 15- Designing and transforming ideas into reality.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

We successfully completed the grand opening for our new office located in Houston, Texas. In Houston, we will continue our work in the criminal defense industry, defending clients and protecting their rights. #4 – New Office. Image Credit: Christopher Corso. This past summer was an exciting time for our firm.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

What Cham rarely tells people – he’s both private and humble – is that he started making some small co-investments with me in tech firms starting with Maker Studios where he was one of the earliest investors. This past year he even decided to attend burning man (photo below) to get a sense of what that was all about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Two robot buses full of dozens of venture capitalists and family office investors from around the world traveled for three days around the great state of Texas from Dallas to Houston to Austin. Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph. ExxonMobil.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When Michael was a high school student, he took a job selling newspaper subscriptions to the Houston Post through telephone cold-calling. In part, he pursued this highly hands-on approach because as an 18-year-old founder funding his start-up entirely on his own, he had very little capital — only $1000 to start.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin?—?culminating Hear pitches from startups, investors, and partners Develop relationships between local and visiting investors so we can start to co-invest together VC Reverse Pitch What will do we do in each city? Retail CPG, Financial Tech, Real Estate Tech June 5 in Houston ?—?Energy,

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 28, 2012

am co-teaching a class at Harvard Business School on entrepreneurship called " Launching Technology Ventures " along with my friend and colleague, Professor Tom Eisenmann. But Houston did not strictly follow the Blank/Ries paradigm religously. The class kicked off this week with two cases: Dropbox and Aardvark.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. Recruiting founders requires investment (Nike and Adidas invest billions of dollars a year in talent pipelines), and I’m seeing Austin do just this. We need to intentionally do the same with people who have the potential to be entrepreneurs.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

What you are not aware of is how much struggle the founders had to go through to get to that pinnacle of success. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. The founders went through a lot of criticism some of which were posted online.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In October we announced our $100,000 Dallas Investment Challenge and then in November the $100,000 Houston Investment Challenge. We give you free rent, free hosting, a lot of other free stuff to make that $100,000 last as long as possible,” said Joshua Baer, founder and Executive Director of Capital Factory.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Austin is different from Dallas which is different from Houston and San Antonio.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2010

The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 18, 2011

The challenges are designed to be technology-related activities, things a “geek” would ideally know how to do and do well. A smartphone use-case challenge from Houston-based Seidio , manufacturer of premium smartphone accessories. M apQuest, Inc.,

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entrepreMusings

JULY 6, 2013

The top performing cities were Austin, Virginia Beach and Houston. Small businesses are top-of-mind for lawmakers nationwide, but too often their needs are more a matter of conjecture rather than actual evidence,” says Sander Daniels, co-founder of Thumbtack.com. The full methodology paper can be found here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Similarly, designing an iOS-­friendly app cost us a lot of developers’ hours, but hasn’t gotten traction so far.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The modern form of the venture capital firm — dating to American Research and Development Corporation and JH Whitney & Co. A more recent incarnation of this is the 2007 development of ARPA-E, designed to fund basic science related to advanced energy technologies. NASA in Houston; SLAC and Lawrence Livermore labs in California).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

So my co-founder, Amit Vij, and I built a new database from the ground up, centered around massive parallelization combining the power of the GPU (typically used to quickly process and generate graphics in video games) and CPU to explore and visualize streaming and historical data in space and time—an approach that we then patented.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Scotts Tower – designed by co-founder and principal architect Ben Van Berkel of Dutch architectural design studio UNStudio – combines the convenience and facilities of an office space, yet with the privacy and functionality of your own private apartment. . ” Small Office, Home Office.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

The panel covers a range of perspectives including companies with established programs, companies just getting started, thought leaders, and services organizations helping others design and execute internal programs. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. The future of tech is accessible, flexible, and inclusive.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 26, 2015

From specially designed, fully equipped spaces like Facebook’s Analog Research Lab , to the more “low-fi” approach adopted by Stanford D-school , it’s worth learning from global best practice to see what’s achievable in your own business. We have a 150-year plan and vision”, Tristan Walker, founder and CEO of Walker & Co.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

If it wasn’t necessary to work in physical proximity to your co-workers, if your favorite restaurant shuttered and if your kid’s school went remote, why stay? When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., At least, that’s what Mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang and many, many others thought, too.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. - Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it? First Principles.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. Jessica Houston Enterprises is a women’s empowerment business that provides personal and professional development training. 8) I found nothing.

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