Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital? Money is like gasoline during a road trip.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The startups ranked most highly by investors and startup enthusiasts in terms of scalability and longevity received votes on how well they connected with investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. ► 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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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Startups ›.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. Let's get started. (00:29): This is John Jantsch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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SiliconHills

JULY 16, 2012

Last week at San Francisco Bakery and Café on Anderson Lane, Paula Soileau, cofounder and partner at Affintus Scientific Hiring, sat down with me to talk about her startup. Before Affintus, Soileau worked at the American Heart Association as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept.

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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. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. The results have helped guide our planning and I’m really excited about all the new options and sessions we’ve come up with for the October 23-25 event in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Remember your customers, culture, and connections.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

It meant frequent flights or moving your company to San Francisco to raise money from Bay Area VCs. billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). Yet, having a vibrant ecosystem to seed early stage startups is one thing. because every startup needs the support of its surroundings while we can’t physically be there. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Richard Ma , CEO and Co-Founder at Quantstamp , says, “We focus on helping our customers stay safe and succeed because our philosophy is that technology is only a tool to solve people’s problems.” Another movement we’re seeing right now is DeFi, or Decentralized Finance. What has the startup experience taught you about life?

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

It's the plight of every startup: mucho trabajo, poco dinero. In return, all Davis and his cofounders had to do was promise to spend six months in the country working on their startup, CruiseWise - an online travel agency for booking cruises - and engage with Chilean businesspeople. What to do? They raised $1.6

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Here at The Startup Magazine , we don’t typically “do” press releases, but occasionally an item comes to us that warrants including it in the magazine. Joe Zhu is a quick study with a natural desire to offer assistance anytime, anywhere startups face marketing, operational, and financing challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?” My blog was wiped out. He handled this perfectly.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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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. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Approaching investors for the first time is a daunting exercise for any startup. The best way to do that is to leverage the hard-won experience of real-world startup. Turns out that while every startup is unique, they share some common difficulties in trying to find just the right strategies and tactics for funding their companies: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 21, 2010 What is a startup? I think most people have a fairly specific image that gets conjured up when they hear the word startup. It leads people to mistakenly believe that any time they see two guys in a garage attempting the impossible, that’s a startup. Wrong again.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Everyone wanted to work in finance. Everyone wants to work in tech startups. Competitions : YHack , Yale Venture Challenge , $25K Entrepreneurship Prize , Venture Clash at Yale SOM ; NYU vs. Yale Pitch Event; Yale vs Harvard Pitch Event, Startup Yale. See Why Venture Capitalists Are Investing in International Startups.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Successful founders believe anything is possible but they build strong founding teams to achieve their startup dreams. Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

Austin has built a name for itself within the startup scene, ranking among the top cities in the U.S. For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. The tens-of-millions-of-dollars rounds aren’t going to the early-stage startups. for funding amounts.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

In Part I , I gave a quick summary of the who, when and why of forming and documenting a new startup company. This week we’ll delve into what , exactly, is necessary or desirable to lay a solid legal foundation for a startup to build upon. Pick a name for the new legal entity (e.g., Newco, Inc.”)

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable). We are implementing the innovative web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Those of us who have had the privilege of working in the premier startup hub in the world often take its advantages for granted. Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. And then the world changed. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

OH in South Park, San Francisco (or on Zoom from Big Sky, Montana): “OMG, crazy – that firm just paid 100x revenue to invest in [insert hot startup here] – what could they be thinking?” Here’s an example: Solid Software Co.currently trades at 8x forward revenue, ~1/3 of the ~24x multiple that Incredible Software Co.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Startup life is all about bootstrapping, but you need a place to work, right? Here’s a breakdown of three workplace styles — home-working, coworking and traditional office space — with pros, cons and input from startups utilzing each environment so you can figure which the right choice is for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

The new hot spots are San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, the east bay, etc. San Francisco - San Francisco has actually successfully co-opted the Silicon Valley magic and even surpassed it in some ways (Twitter, Salesforce.com); it’s again a very hot place to be right now and this will continue.

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