Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

Steve Blank says "get outside the building," Eric Ries says "seek validated learning," Sean Ellis says "seek product/market fit," Drew Houston says "the only way to learn on a $0 budget is to talk to people.". I say "get off your ass and produce hard evidence that customers are in your future light cone? ". I'm scratching my own itch.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This Tuesday we’ve chartered a bus and are coming to Houston with 30 investors, mentors and entrepreneurs to announce $100,000 just for Houston ! Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in Texas have banded together to give one startup from Houston with a diverse executive team a $100,000 investment to try and change the world.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas and Houston, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Exposure to customers, incumbents, and competitors all drive success. Being close to your customers, your vendors, or even your competitors can make all the difference. Today, Silicon Valley is the consumer and enterprise software capital of the world. The list goes on and on.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Capital Factory’s Texas Fund , in partnership with Beam Angel Network , Seven Seven Six Fund , and Golden Seeds (Houston) , is excited to announce the next $100,000 Investment Challenge at our 4th Annual Women In Tech Summit. Houston based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8

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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. You [will] learn very different and important things.”.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2017

With 9 locations spanning (primarily) DFW, we have created programs that helps connect entrepreneurs with customers, strategic partnerships and funding necessary to see an entrepreneur to find success. Entrepreneurs from Austin will drive to pitch Fortune 500 companies in Houston and Dallas.

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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. Drew Houston. For decades, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been on all of the “Top 10 Places for…” lists. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2013

Sam at Website Design Houston : “When I was starting out I was working for a non-profit for a few hours a week to help them build and manage their website. Ultimately one of their board members saw the great work and recommended me to one of the fastest growing companies in Houston and that was my first paid job.”.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

For Basecamp—and other SaaS companies offering free trials—getting a customer to start using their trial is a priority. As Dropbox CEO Drew Houston detailed in a presentation , a referral offer that let Dropbox users “earn” 16 extra GBs of storage space drove millions of signups and dramatically reduced customer acquisition costs.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the Houston keynote , Joe Alapat, CEO of Liongard, said “When you invest in Houston, you get the oomph of the Texas Triangle.” Capital Factory holds events for all of Texas, not just Austin or Houston or Dallas, and attracts people from around the country and around the world. We amplified this in last month’s sessions.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

From manufacturer to air shipment company to warehouse to ground shipment company to customer, each participant in the supply chain must be blindly trusted by participants further down the chain to store and handle temperature sensitive assets correctly. Some of those sources are different blockchains. not as a hash, but the actual data.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2021

But we think there’s a deep vein of opportunities to help our existing customers and many more people manage and expand their professional network. We stayed firm and even did a sale for our customers which had the proceeds benefiting the CDC foundation to provide PPE equipment to front-line responders to the virus.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While it’s likely that you have a general city in mind, there’s a lot more to finding commercial real estate in Houston , San Diego, and even the smaller cities in between. Where your target customers spend their time. It’s important to consider why customers should walk into your store instead of others. Foot traffic.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2011

But, then so do the Bay Area, New York City, the Boston 128 corridor, and for that matter Houston and Dallas. You have a computing platform if it allows you and others to accomplish the following less expensively than if they did it on their own: Continuously gain new customers. Introduce new services.

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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. So for this year we try increase our revenue and launch a social campaign to get our customers to be more involved.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Winners include thriving Texas startups like Dallas-based ShearShare , Houston-based GroupRaise , and Austin-based Journey Foods. We’ve helped winners connect with customers, mentors, and secure capital from Google, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Fund, Backstage Capital, and many other VC investors.

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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. You [will] learn very different and important things.”.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 11, 2021

A Buzzfeed survey in the same year, however, revealed that Uber drivers in Detroit, Denver, and Houston took home less than $13-25 per hour after expenses. An Uber driver should be aware of peak hours where he or she lives, as Uber increases its rates for customers during this time. per hour. .

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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. Houston is the US headquarters for about 25 oil & gas and energy companies?—?most Houston is also home to the Texas Medical Center?—?the

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

Already this week I’ve been in Dallas, Austin, Houston, Dayton and as I mentioned Cincinnati. It’s how you gain customer insights. I was in Houston on Monday night. But, Mark, the [investor, biz dev parter, customer, M&A buyer] told me a telephone call would be fine for the first meeting!” Win over customers.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Her company, Citizen Made , which makes tools to help companies sell custom products, won a L’Oréal Women in Digital grant , giving it the funding it needed to open a new office in New York City. About a year ago, Rachel Brooks was poised to bring her startup to the next level.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas and Houston, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2021

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors, and customers. Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers, and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes, and coworking.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Starting with an audit of your current strategy, the competitive landscape, a deep understanding of your business objectives, and customer discovery, a CTO will develop a holistic product roadmap that will provide you the unfair advantage you need to succeed in the market. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin?—?culminating Retail CPG, Financial Tech, Real Estate Tech June 5 in Houston ?—?Energy, Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are four of the fastest growing cities in the country and have been for the past decade. culminating in an epic 10 year birthday party for Capital Factory!

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2018

In October we announced our $100,000 Dallas Investment Challenge and then in November the $100,000 Houston Investment Challenge. Easy Expunctions leverages technology to assure our customers a clear and cost-effective solution to clearing criminal records.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Greg Abbott expects the rebuilding of Houston to cost up to $180 billion. Whether you’re in e-commerce or rely on in-person customers for your service, advertise and donate portions of your sales for the relief fund. Entrepreneurs for Houston (E4H) launched a $10 million campaign to fund their volunteers and codify their efforts.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2015

Explain your plan for customer acquisition. a shipping company, won the Liftoff Houston Business Plan Competition after a four minute pitch and 10 minutes of Q&A, but she says she never would have gotten to that point without writing her business plan first. Explain your solution. Describe your successes. Outline your competition.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 23, 2019

Today, social media has become an essential marketing strategy in Houston for businesses of all sizes. Loyal customers make great online ambassadors. Gone are the days when marketing of products and services was limited to mainstream media, the use of billboards, flyers, and word of mouth. Image by Khusen Rustamov from Pixabay.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

And after one meeting they started asking for his advice about marketing, customer engagement, product design, monetization – whatever. Chamillionaire has a way more refined sense of what customer behavior is like than most ivy league graduates with nice Powerpoint slides that I meet.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

. “I doubt that you consulted the Navajo Nation about using their tribal name on sophisticated items such as the ‘Navajo Hipster Panty,''” wrote Navajo Nation member Sasha Houston Brown. When or if your company makes a mistake and customers or employees are telling you they want change, listen.

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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. When Michael started the company that would one day become Dell Technologies, he sold desktop PCs that he customized to his customers’ exact specifications. PLAY NICE BUT WIN.

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