The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 20, 2010

TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator that just launched in Dallas, Texas. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Tags: Startup Lawyer dallas seed capital. The first program begins April 5, 2010. Customers: SMB through Fortune 500 (no consumer apps).

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator in Dallas, Texas. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Applications for the first 12-week accelerator “bootcamp” are due March 19. Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 8, 2010

TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator in Dallas, Texas. Location: Come from anywhere, willing to locate to Dallas for the program. Applications for the first 12-week accelerator “bootcamp” are due March 19. Technology: Web, SaaS, open source, data integration, middleware, etc.

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The Startup Lawyer

DECEMBER 18, 2013

A Primer on the new YC Docs“ It’s somewhat geared towards the Dallas Fort Worth startup scene, but I believe it’s probably relevant for most of the country/world. I wrote an article for LaunchDFW titled “SAFE and SOUND? Venture Capital'

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway. More in Financing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Panel The Texas Startup Manifesto is call to action to connect Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas Startup Megatropolis, unlocking billions of dollars in capital and unleashing thousands of diverse entrepreneurs.

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 31, 2014

This week, we present Mark Cuban , the superstar entrepreneur and angel investor, and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. In this short clip, Mark shares a few words of wisdom for entrepreneurs, including the following: “You need to understand accounting and finance.” (0:14). You have to know how to sell. Sales cures all.” (0:18).

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2020

Two companies received awards in the recently announced AFVentures’ Strategic Financing (STRATFI) program, where the Air Force is making big bets on early-stage companies with disruptive technologies and emergent investor backing. Federal funding awards ranged from $10,000 to $15 million, with four companies receiving more than $5 million.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Carvana is also in Houston and Dallas. With Carvana, you can buy a car entirely online – from financing, to trade-in to […] The post Carvana Launches into Austin and San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. Nationwide, it’s in eight markets including Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte and Nashville.

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The Startup Lawyer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Standard seed financing terms have moved beyond the boundaries of the Bay Area, but they haven’t completely reached all parts of the globe.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Seshu has already started operations in Dallas and Houston as well as launched in the Bay Area. He should penetrate Dallas, his home base, deeply and monetize that geography thoroughly. I said, no. It is much better to grow organically with revenue.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2017

Go Fund Me campaigns are wildly popular on social media, and there is no shortage of good causes who need financing. OurCalling , a ministry to the homeless in downtown Dallas, recruits volunteers to help feed, clothe, and create conversations with the homeless. Contrary to popular belief, Millennials have incredibly generous hearts.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

identify financing vehicles before you need them. Other incubators and accelerators in the health tech space include Health WildCatters in Dallas, RockHealth in Silicon Valley, Iron Yard in North Carolina, HealthBox Accelerator, Athena Health MDP in Boston and others.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2016

Today, we’re excited to officially announce our investment as they raise their Series A financing from Maveron, Madrona, and RRE, and other invests, as well as expand into Silicon Valley. Last year, we quietly invested in the seed round of Booster Fuels, a then-stealth on-demand gas delivery service. So why did we invest?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 16, 2013

Computer scientists Tyler Moore (from the Southern Methodist University, Dallas) and Nicolas Christin (of Carnegie Mellon University) found 40 exchanges on the Web that offered a service changing bitcoins into other fiat currencies or back again. Is this happens it won’t be the first time a Bitcoin exchange has shut down.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2013

Trying to get Mark Cuban to invest because ‘this would be great for the Dallas Mavericks.’ Business Planning Finance James Altucher Techcrunch' Having fights with partners in the first year. Fire them or split before anything gets out of control. Worrying about dilution. Asking people for five minutes of their time.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing. SPOTS Online.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Venture Financing. Founded by Matt Rutledge in 2004 and based in Dallas. Michael also discussed the problems of being public including our litigious society in the US and the time that CFO’s and executive teams need to spend on both shareholders and legal issues (for a CFO it can be up to 1/3 or half their time). TechCrunch.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2018

While working full time, the first thing I did on my quest to have my own business was to take a course on entrepreneurship at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX. Some of the parameters I had for my new business location included things I knew benefited me in my years of sales and marketing out of Dallas: An airport within 25 miles.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2011

For some reason, all those episodes of Gilligan’s Island and Dallas still have a place in my brain, right next to lyrics from 70s and 80s songs and movies. More Than 1/3 of Your Life. When I was a kid, so my parents tell me, I used to watch a lot of TV. I even wrote about it several years ago here.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed? Every accelerator also finances its cohort companies differently. Complicated agreements with MFN clauses and confusing future financing obligations are opaque at best.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

When I proclaimed I was going to change the population with my reverse-engineered online dating business, serial entrepreneur and Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban, rolled his eyes, called me delusional and immediately snapped, “I’m out.” He decided to read only educational and thought inspiring books pertaining to finance.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I hope you can join us at some of DC Finance’s upcoming Family Office conferences in NYC. I have no financial interest in DC Finance or any of their conferences, but I will be speaking at some of their events.). If you use registration code 207 , it will facilitate their tracking. (I

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 13, 2016

BR Finance Solutions is unlike any other lender out there. Unlike traditional and non-traditional lenders, online and in person, BR Finance. However, BR Finance Solutions is able to provide alternatives to those who have bad credit or no credit. Thanks to Lori Askins, BR Finance Solutions. #4 3 – Credit Solutions.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

By making his companies journey, experiments, problems and even finances public I have learnt many lessons. They added a 2nd date in Dallas are. Joel’s commitment to transparency has had a profound impact on the way I have chosen to build my own business. She was 33 then, so attracted a youngish crowd). Age was irrelevant.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

About the Author Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Click here to learn more about his practice.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

I’ve also had the good fortune to operate and sometimes live in several other fledgling tech corridors – Cambridge, NYC, Portland, Boulder, Santa Fe, Austin, Dallas, SLC, Frankfurt, Paris. Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. If you plop your company here, great things could happen. That has all changed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. It's in Denver, a Chicago, a Seattle, Phoenix, and Dallas. Learning how to code myself was the investment. But in terms of actually taking outside like cash from a venture capitalist, it was, it was four years in, it was in 2006.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

After getting laid off from a job back in 2008, I decided I would put all my passions together and become a personal finance journalist. The company has also grown from one Atlanta-based office to four offices in Dallas, Houston, Raleigh, and Detroit. After several rejections, a friend told me that you could actually just start a blog.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

As an example consider Pediatrics After Hours which operates in Dallas as a pediatric urgent care facility. Solv launched in Dallas-Fort Worth earlier this year and quickly expanded nationally after providers across the country requested their consumer-centric healthcare platform.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. Bryan joins us full time January 1 after serving in a part-time capacity for the past 6 months and is our senior leader in Dallas. However, Bryan isn’t just focused on Dallas?—?in

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

You know the next two cons for being your own boss kind of have to do with finances. Peter: Even those who do, have a good finance source, or a good initial start up loan, that kind of thing. Number two in line, Dallas Texas. Peter: Dallas, Texas, number two, number one in employment labor and hiring. Pretty exciting.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

I’ll add on one more – are there regional members of David’s team in at least the major markets like Dallas/Fort Worth? Money and Finance Lists. Thank you to John Jackovin for asking two great questions every entrepreneur and start up would love to know the answer to. July 18, 2012 11:30:30. Flag this comment.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In Dallas in particular, I happen to know, urgent care facilities are popping up left and right. So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. I’ll go into that for a second. This is early.

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