Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. I met Brian Dombrowski and Scott Bennett, who had been building the company in San Jose. Costs for startups are substantially less than in the Bay Area so our investment dollars have a longer runway.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? SXSW Pitch Finalist: StrongSalt was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. What has the startup experience taught you about life? Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow

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ConversionXL

MAY 3, 2017

Social proof can be a great way to improve your conversion rate. The San Jose Sharks used this high-value segment to successfully to drive 33x ROI on their Facebook Ads campaign. Here’s a masterful execution of reselling: The San Jose Sharks Facebook Ad. He picks a winner each month. These are your “whales.”.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 22, 2016

Actually we wrapped two Caltrain cars that shuttle daily between San Francisco and San Jose. This is one element of a campaign to start a conversation about the rapidly emerging platform economy. ” I’ve been getting that question a lot lately.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. TrackBack URL for this entry: [link]. Have not met anyone I wanted to hire who was willing to work for equity.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

Dan is already seeing strong conversion from site visitors to free registrations (over 17%, which is excellent), and reasonable conversion from free to paid subscribers for the service. Dan wanted to know how to increase the conversion. We discussed a numbers of customer acquisition methods to do so. Social Pulse.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 12, 2017

All of their headquarters sit in a 50-mile stretch from San Francisco to San Jose. As always, I’d like to hear your thoughts and reactions to this conversation. Of the 13 high-tech companies in the world that are worth over $100 billion, six of them hail from Silicon Valley. of the world’s population!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The decentralization conversation in blockchain is more of a libertarian ideology than information architecture — most of the people talking about decentralization are libertarian quacks rallying up thoughts of not being beholden to tyranny and has nothing to do with actually implementing decentralized networks.

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Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I've seen a number of conversations about universal search in the SEO trade circles (e.g. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles. To me, there is potential underserved opportunity here.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Users are given the ability to schedule, prioritise, converse, and monitor work in real time, culminating in tasks being completed with great speed and efficiency. . The company’s early operations were based in Mountain View before it relocated to San Jose, San California in February, 2016.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2013

Don Campbell lives with his family in San Jose California and is President of Expand2Web. The Art of Referral Conversion How to Boost Your Customer Referrals in 7 Simple Steps The Confusing Opportunity of Referral Would Your Employees Refer You? His company provides tools and training to help businesses succeed online.

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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

two hours on the connection then on to San Jose, Costa Rica. We opened the curtains to our first view of the airport area near San Jose. We set out and went through the city (San Jose) first. The whole country is just 5m people, so probably half of them are in San Jose. 3 hour second flight.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Next, Lee Bollinger President of Columbia University in conversation electrified the audience with description of the fourth purpose of a university. (I’ve I’ve summarized our conversation with the video and transcript of the entire talk following the summary.). And we had people doing that, both in Africa and in San Jose.

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dickey.xxx

DECEMBER 10, 2012

I attended another Startup Weekend in San Jose shortly after the one in Seattle that helped me network with people. The conversation will be a little crazy. Just let the conversation go wherever it goes for a little while. It won't be a boring conversation. I haven't looked back since. Grab a drink.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Security Choice: The Power of Conversion Through Transparency. Why not, at least, show me "Current Deals from San Jose" (my closest airport)? The price is easy to see, colors easy to find and change, micro conversions cleverly tucked under the Add To Cart button. Micro-conversions FTW! Sad, right?

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Analyzing each step of who comes to the website organic, paid, conversions etc [SB] Having a bottoms-up model is helpful. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Just like the low conversion rate from going to bars (unless it’s for that one night interaction), this is the same for finding a co-founder. Every conversation that I had was very high quality. We had comparable energy levels and great chemistry during our first conversation. In Conversation. This was the ‘one’!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Noise and cramped quarters basically force you to listen in on conversations) or University Café or the Peninsula Creamery to see engineers working on a startup or have breakfast in Il Fornaio to see the VC’s/Recruiters at work. You need to get inside of those building and deeper inside those conversations. Stanford – The Brains.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

Past livestream attendees have reported great conversations and networking. They represent more than 10,000 people total. If you're not attending the conference in person, consider meeting up with one of these groups to watch. Most simulcasts are free, although some charge a small fee to cover their costs.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We had a conversation. Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. How do you have that conversation? Time to purchase, conversion rates, those kinds of things. Jonathan: That’s our conversation about big data. I know that you know how to draw. We should make a comic book.”

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

Austin Texas, hometown of True Wealth Venture’s takes the top spot, followed by Miami, then San Jose and NYC ranks at number seven. As of now, the City of Austin’s startup density is greater than that of the Silicon Valley!

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. Before CardMunch even launched its product, I ran into some folks from LinkedIn at an event and in casual conversation mentioned what CardMunch was trying to do. Again a casual conversation transpired.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. Before CardMunch even launched its product, I ran into some folks from LinkedIn at an event and in casual conversation mentioned what CardMunch was trying to do. Again a casual conversation transpired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong. We're having this conversation still in the midst of a seemingly never ending pandemic and lockdown.

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Austin Startup

MAY 15, 2017

NVIDIA GTC: Innovation Accelerating, Ecosystem Gelling & Opportunity for Human Advancement Exploding As those who follow my social media handles know (perhaps all too well), I spent last week in San Jose at the Nvidia GTC with Austin-based, GPU accelerated startups BlazingDB and Bitfusion.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools. I have written countless products for startups including creating the internet kiosks at the San Jose airport you may have seen.

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