Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Then we reach out to all of the venture capitalists, accelerators and coworking spaces to spread the word.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Lead a team responsible for 10,000 life-changing connections per year between all of the entrepreneurs and investors in Texas. Entrepreneurs are people who change the world and make it better. Capital Factory is all about helping entrepreneurs and we do it in many different ways.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Perot Jain , one of the most active early stage venture firms in Texas, is joining DivInc and The DEC to support our $100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Challenge and help us get the word out as far and wide as possible! According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2013.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. March 10, 2018 9:30AM?—?11:30AM 11:30AM Fairmont?—?Indigo

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

Then I’ll help you start your own company, launch your own fund, or find a leadership role at Capital Factory or one of our portfolio companies. There is no better way to insert yourself into the Austin jetstream, expand your network, and explode your experience! You are at an inflection point in your life and career.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more troublr attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. Nice ideas, all of them. But let’s get real.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Salon A CF Member: Kelsi Kamin, Capital Factory Venture Associate Register: SXSW badge required Social Maps and the Future of Location-Based Capital Factory Panels We couldn’t just let our members have all the fun. Capital Factory is participating in and hosting several panels as well.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin?—?culminating culminating in an epic 10 year birthday party for Capital Factory! Each city will showcase entrepreneurs and scaling companies with different themes: June 4 in Dallas ?—?Retail Retail CPG, Financial Tech, Real Estate Tech June 5 in Houston ?—?Energy, June 4–6, 2019.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 21, 2012

Last year, Aziz Gilani, a director at Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury , ran a study of 29 North American accelerators for the Kauffman Fellows Program. He found that 45% of them produced not a single graduate who went on to raise venture funding. “A Finally he had enough data to come up with a ranking.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more trouble attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. Nice ideas, all of them. But let’s get real.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more trouble attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito. Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. Nice ideas, all of them. But let’s get real.

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Silicon Valley St. Louis Venture Capital Houston 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

I used to meet a high profile entrepreneur or investor moving here every month and now it seems it’s one or two a week. Normally, you can literally just show up at Capital Factory and hang out in the kitchen. Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Network effects of cities and innovation — and how it ties to inequality Just as there are network effects in online platforms, where a network grows more valuable to users the more users that join and use it, there are also network effects in the physical world. The same applies to cities. Federal government.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Like any entrepreneur, Jerry wanted to solve it. Entrepreneurship is at a 40-year low because there are thousands of Jerrys — great entrepreneurs, who understand problems, and don’t fit the pattern of what our financial system expects. We need to intentionally do the same with people who have the potential to be entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

First Principles. Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Ezra Klein : Hello and welcome to the Ezra Klein Show, a podcast on Vox Media Podcast Network.

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