Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As we enter year three, we are excited to announce that both accelerator programs in Austin and Houston will run simultaneously which gives us the ability to support up to 200 early-stage startups, and help connect them to Texas’ innovation communities. All of this is available to startups for zero-equity and no strings attached.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Summits focused on key under-represented groups are one example of how we try to do that and we’re starting to see some results. Winners include thriving Texas startups like Dallas-based ShearShare , Houston-based GroupRaise , and Austin-based Journey Foods. Want a chance to pitch?

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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. Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a

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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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Up and Running

AUGUST 10, 2016

While most of the media attention about this new opportunity has focused around the ability for an entrepreneur to sell shares (equity) in his or her enterprise, the real (and neglected) opportunity for Main Street businesses comes down to debt crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding versus debt crowdfunding for Main Street businesses.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Yet as providers announce that Texas cities like Dallas, Houston, and Waco will be receiving 5G in the near future, Austin is left on the outside looking in. compared to hundreds in other Texas cities like Dallas and Houston. Austin Tech Alliance is a nonprofit building a culture of civic engagement in Austin’s tech sector.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Follow Amber on Twitter @amberallen_aa #Gaming #Esports #VirtualReality #AugmentedReality #MixedReality #AmbersReality Andy Tryba recently launched a new company with Donald Park from Vista Equity, called Ionic Partners, after almost a decade running companies for Joe Liemandt.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 29, 2014

Quite simply, companies that build asset and equity value for their shareholders are vigilant in ensuring that their monetization strategies are built around long-term customer retention and satisfaction, and NOT short-term gain. Famous technocrati like Brian Chesky , Drew Houston , and Garret Camp pray to it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Mellie Price is a Capital Factory co-founder and started our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts. In 2019 Minh Vu expanded the strategy to collaborate with more partners and to add programming in the Dallas and Houston markets. Houston is one of the most international and diverse cities in the country. everybody wins.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Mellie Price is a Capital Factory co-founder and started our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts. In 2019 Minh Vu expanded the strategy to collaborate with more partners and to add programming in the Dallas and Houston markets. Houston is one of the most international and diverse cities in the country. everybody wins.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. Over time, the concept of broad-based equity ownership has become characteristic of most tech companies and embedded in Silicon Valley startup culture very early on. Venture capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2012

Previous speakers have included folks like Steve Blank, Scott Cook, Hiten Shah, Dave Binetti, Janice Fraser, and Drew Houston. Put another way: the past process helped us field excellent speakers, but it drew from a limited pool of candidates and thus didn’t achieve great equity.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Austin is still a great place to see attractive people gallivanting near a watering hole or trail, still a great place to catch a live music show (once we get through this pandemic), still a place to avoid some of the suburban sprawl of Dallas or Houston, still a place to make fast friends, and still very much a place to enjoy life.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

O-Port Then Raymond McGlamery pitched the O-Port , a guitar and drum accessory company based in Houston, Texas. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. The question is, why has this shift occurred?

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Participation" means that investors "double dip" by getting both their liquidation preference and their equity allocation. - A "1x liquidation preference" without participation means that investors choose to either (a) get their money back or (b) convert to equity and get the equity value only.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

To generate long-term brand equity and trust, and maintain competitive advantage, every brand campaign should be influenced by a strategy that’s built on four principles: 1. Had this strategy not been in place, a misjudged shoe could have easily defined mass brand perception. Purpose is your reason for existing.

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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. So he added more criteria, including the amount of equity an accelerator takes and the size of its alumni network. Would you invest in a startup from its program?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 11, 2020

This story was originally published on MassChallenge.org on April 9, 2020 Written by Jon Nordby, MassChallenge Texas in Houston and Bill Powell, Stadia Ventures In the face of catastrophe, innovators turn challenges into opportunities. still on. ## ABOUT MASSCHALLENGE MassChallenge is a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In townslike Houston and Chicago and Detroit its too small to measure. Silicon Valleydominates, then Boston, then Seattle, Austin, Denver, and New York. Afterthat theres not much. Even in New York the number of startups percapita is probably a 20th of what it is in Silicon Valley. Why is the falloff so sharp?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 29, 2019

million in seed funding , though it already had 150 apartments under management in Austin, Houston and Nashville beforehand. depending on how one counts it: $80 million in cash plus another $80 million in equity. A relative newcomer, Locale (based in Austin as well), also recently announced it had secured $2.5

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We’ve got another Texas city, Houston, number seven. It’s the other side of that coin. Peter: I think there’s a little bit more of a metaphorical version here as well. Health and safety, license and regulation, so fallowing on the Colorado trend, number eight is Fort Collins, Colorado. Jonathan: Yeah. Peter: Good barbecue.

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ConversionXL

JULY 13, 2016

According to an article in the Houston Chronicle , “Some corporate names become powerful marketing tools in their own right, which can lead to a halo effect to marketing other products.” A similar variation of the brand equity effect is when a product does really well, it makes the rest of a company’s catalog look attractive as well.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Prior to joining Uber, Kandace worked on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusiveness team at Teach For America helping build an equitable internal culture. With the help of DivInc, we recently held three $100,000 D&I Investment Challenges in Austin, Dallas and Houston and made investments in Kiss & Tell, ShearShare and GroupRaise.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Both Sides of the Table , July 22, 2010 An updated Digital Trends presentation - Jeff Hilimire , June 2, 2010 I do what I hate - Jessica Mah , January 7, 2010 Startup Equity Allocation - charliecrystle.com , January 11, 2010 When good investment decisions end up backing more women CEOs: Conversation with Cameron Lester at Azure Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., Racial equity protests campaigned hard for change in how policing is done. If it wasn’t necessary to work in physical proximity to your co-workers, if your favorite restaurant shuttered and if your kid’s school went remote, why stay?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MASSCHALLENGE TEXAS NAMES TOP 14 FINALIST STARTUPS FROM AUSTIN-BASED ACCELERATOR International accelerator to award up to $500,000 in equity-free cash prizes to select top startups from the region’s third startup accelerator program at Oct. all at zero cost and with zero equity taken. 17 awards ceremony (AUSTIN, Texas?—?Sept.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Consider that just in the past two years, we’ve seen these wins in tech, the industry we personally know best: Oracle’s global HQ move to Austin Apple second HQ continuing to grow in Austin Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s global HQ moving to Houston Army Futures Command selecting Austin as their headquarters Elon Musk’s move and his companies, from Tesla, (..)

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