Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio began in May of 2016, in the RebelBio accelerator program run by SOS Ventures. They joined the StartupBootcamp Foodtech program in November of 2016, forging connections with the food industry and mentors specifically experienced in that space. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium.

Ireland 62

Ireland Morocco North America Philippines 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

South Korea 89

South Korea Technical Review Open Source Vertical 89

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

3) Lastly, an empathetic approach to conversations. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. I mean really taking the time to understand how things work at the atomic level. (2)

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cofounder New York Software Review 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

My experience is that when we engage men in the conversation and we make it personal for them?—?they This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. For now, men still control the VC checkbooks.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Seattle Elevator Pitch Equity 62

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

So there was always the affiliate program and then all this other and business development, I think now it's all coming under one roof under one platform. In fact, you know, we have an event every year for outside of global pandemics for like the top 20 programs in the world, the people that are running them sort of like a mastermind.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Cleveland Software Review Iowa 62

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

We invited entrepreneurs considering joining the 1M/1M premium program to the Stanzr chat room and did a one-hour Q&A session. However, the mistake Said has made is to go "spray and pray" and build numerous different verticals without really fleshing out the business strategy for any of them. We thought it was very cool!

Entrepreneur 116

Entrepreneur San Francisco Technical Review New Jersey 116

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

I have been responsible for organizing and wrangling mentor groups for the Longhorn Startup Program for UT Austin undergraduates when I as an instructor there. Not all incubators and accelerators are the same, and many have adopted vertical specializations and come packing serious heat from major partners in those verticals.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Incubator Software Review Vertical 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Los Angeles Cofounder Silicon Valley 63

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Sometimes it’s because the business grows market-by-market, like Favor, or sometimes it’s that the business needs to grow its sales or programming teams in multiple cities. Texas is one of the only places where we can run a single Accelerator program across multiple cities. Many businesses expand geographically city by city.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. They also incorporated a satisfaction survey program to gain a fresh perspective on new customers needs and desires. Perhaps that’s why Amazon Prime is such a successful program?

Retention 115

Retention Customer Developer Programming 115

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

In October, UbiQD was one of the five selected companies for the Wells Fargo Incubator program. We are very humbled and excited to get into the Wells Fargo IN2 program. Once you have the content down, then can you relax and be conversational, with good jokes. Plants love it. The best advice I can give is to practice.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Startup Harvest Advisory Board 54

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review New Jersey Valuation Singapore 62

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals.

Technical Review 62

Technical Review New Jersey Valuation Singapore 62

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And sometimes we're just used to always thinking in a certain way about who that audience is sometimes within a vertical segment, other times maybe within a certain type of person that comes from a certain demographic background. But the point of view and the method is the same, regardless of what stage you're in. So sorry about that.

Customer 101

Customer .Net Arizona Networking 101

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s very frustrating to be led through a long conversation with no substance to be told no. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. For startups, time is our most precious commodity.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review San Francisco Artificial Inteligence Cofounder 65

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We worked closely with a faculty member at the Rice University Executive MBA program and found talent that were actively looking for an exciting startup to join. Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW , the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. I founded Fluidity Technologies in Jan.

Las Vegas 55

Las Vegas Technical Review Houston Startup 55

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Managing shopper experience for medium-sized eCommerce businesses presents a lot of opportunities for conversion testing, and the ability to see real and immediate revenue results when tests are successful. This one small change led to an additional 110 orders, bringing in an additional $43,230 in revenue in a 2 week period.

Revenue 124

Revenue Caching Software Review eCommerce 124

Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

The number is computed based on a ML algorithm that has learned from deep analysis of your user behavior and conversion data. Action #1: Analytics Program Maturity Diagnostic. Which quadrant reflects the maturity of your analytics program? Slice the matrix vertically along the time-to-useful dimension…. If yes, hurray!

Analytics 93

Analytics Framework Metrics Algorithm 93

SVPG

APRIL 28, 2012

Product management (which goes by the program manager title) defined the products to be built. Market and customer research (what matters in and beyond our category, what’s the engagement model of the people influencing product conversion or the perception of our product? Vertical/affiliate/evangelist programs.

Product 108

Product Technical Review Marketing Affiliate 108

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

We have developed a product that first meets the needs of public safety agencies and organizations, but we have seen a ton of interest from corporations across multiple verticals?—?hospitality, I learned to pitch well via Techstars Boulder and am forever grateful for the rigorous process in that program.

Denver 48

Denver Startup Austin Vertical 48

ConversionXL

APRIL 30, 2019

Too often, companies in the same vertical adopt a “me-too” approach in their design aesthetic. From what I’ve noticed, this is for two main reasons: The internal conversation about design aesthetic devolves into one about features, rather than developing a distinct visual identity. Visual appeal matters.

Design 132

Design eCommerce Search Chile 132

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

I've had several conversations over the years on TV show financing, and the basic formula is that you have to get a network to finance your show. In fact, in the discussion on JuJu brands is yet another validation of the verticalization and niche-ization of the Internet. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

So because they didn't know the industry, they just didn't have that ability to come into the conversation with something innovative. We thought there has to be a way to really elevate the conversation within our industry. Obviously you're not marketing a $29 product or even a very expensive course or program. It's so emotional.

Differentiation 73

Differentiation Sales Cycle Audio Networking 73

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

As I am going on, I am creating programs and services with various purposes but keeping it under my name at the moment. After a few conversations, she offered up an alternative name for the company, “Find Your Influence.” The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. We settled on “Ignite Influence.”

Naming 84

Naming Software Review Entrepreneur Atlanta 84

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2018

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. Troops is similarly embedded into the workflow of sales and marketing teams — it’s the glue between daily internal conversations and customer interactions.

B2B 120

B2B B2C Vertical Portfolio 120

ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2016

According to Experiment Engine’s data, anywhere from 50% to 80% of test results are inconclusive, depending on the vertical and stage of the testing program. This can stall a testing program – as an HBR article put it , “For many managers, no action resulting from the tests equals no value to the test. Segment The Data.

Conversion 48

Conversion Technical Review Video Revenue 48

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

He’s a former Dell exec that worked on their startup team with Ingrid Vandervelt, a Capital Factory mentor, and the co-founder of DivInc, Austin’s pre-accelerator program for diverse founders, which is hosted at Capital Factory. Stephen is a Capital Factory Mentor, serial entrepreneur and former General Partner at Austin Ventures.

Technical Cofounder 48

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

A curious conversation over a great meal and drink. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. To never lose the excitement of doing something for the first time. What’s your actual super power? Absolutely not.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Vertical Austin Conversion 78

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Lee Muhl, Managing Director, Growthink's New Media and Entertainment Practice Lee Muhl heads Growthink's entertainment-media vertical, encompassing the making and distribution of films, television programming, games, new media content and numerous related distribution platforms, technologies and methodologies including theatrical exhibition, DVD, PPV-VOD, (..)

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With SXSW starting later that week, the companies will be fresh out of the Techstars Austin program, ready to leverage the SXSW event as well. For more information about the Techstars Austin accelerator program, see here. “I Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

When you're applying to pre-schools, programs give clear cutoff dates. Still, don’t substitute that for live conversations. Grab a free trial and start sourcing names by doing searches of similarly staged companies in the same basic verticals that have recently raised. VC doesn't have those clear cutoffs. Am I still pre-seed?

ChatGPT 78

ChatGPT Database Salary Naming 78

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

You can listen to the conversation on the Greymatter podcast here. The way that Travis had set up Uber was a kind of vertical stack, very loosely coupled efforts, and any GM was essentially the CEO of their own city. We measure, we have programs against diversity inclusion. We’re having those conversations in the U.S.,

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Marketing demand creation programs (Search Engine Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Lead Generation, Trade Shows, etc.) It seems like businesses who focus on finding their repeatable and scalable sales model first get to revenue more quickly and the funding conversation becomes much easier.

Lean 244

Lean Silicon Valley Startup RSS 244

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Olivia Ramos , Deepblocks’ Founder and CEO, is a graduate of all three Singularity University startup programs, GSP, Incubator, and Accelerator, and was the only woman participant in the DARPA Innovation House program. Now working in the imperial and metric systems, Deepblocks addresses inefficiencies and costs of planning for housing.

Artificial Inteligence 76

Artificial Inteligence Miami Architecture Florida 76

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

But it is much harder to program the nuances of emotion, societal context and overall ethical considerations that humans learn from their biggest mistakes. The program, which was piloted over the last year, requires AI researchers to consider the ethics of their projects before they can receive funding from HAI. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36

Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

But it is much harder to program the nuances of emotion, societal context and overall ethical considerations that humans learn from their biggest mistakes. The program, which was piloted over the last year, requires AI researchers to consider the ethics of their projects before they can receive funding from HAI. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

Technical Review 36

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence America Algorithm 36