Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

get the attention of the market they choose. For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. It’s very important.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

It’s clear that Link put a lot of thought into the design of their space, providing co-workers with excellent lighting, some of the best chairs on the market, and even views of inspirational green space. Located in Houston, Caroline Collective offers a collaborative workspace for entrepreneurs, writers, designers, and more.

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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. To get there, we’ve modified our service mix, processes, upgraded our team and refocused our sales and marketing efforts. 13- Perfect my presentation skills and networking.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. 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. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston. Joe Lonsdale.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2017

Cisco, eBay, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Paypal, 3M, and Whole Foods Market. What does a Texas Wide Network look like for entrepreneurs? Capital Factory will host community events in Dallas and Houston with Venture Capitalists from across the state Startups in Dallas will open a customer service office in San Antonio.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Members of The DEC now have access to the Capital Factory and 1776 mentor networks in-person at The DEC or online via Skype. They also have access to work from Capital Factory in Austin and tap into our network for introductions to investors and strategic corporate partners.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

A CTO will guide your product strategy, market validation, architectural decisions, process optimization, recruiting, and hiring. The latter are strategists and evangelists and focus on product-market fit, market trends, and product planning. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics.

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Austin Startup

JULY 26, 2021

Do you dream of entering the American and/or European market, find new clients or boost your business? La French Tech Houston and Austin organize a challenge for Startups & SMEs to celebrate excellence on innovative projects & initiatives in 3 categories: Cleantech , Medtech & Aerospace. Are you a Startup or a SME ?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2020

Still, Facebook (91%), Linkedin (80%), and Twitter (67%) are the most popular social media platforms among B2B marketers. That potential continues to attract more B2B marketers, with 66% active on Instagram in 2019, up from 57% in 2018. Gather market research and better understand customer expectations. That’s not a shock.

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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. The Houston program is offering tracks for Sports Tech and Space Commercialization.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

There’s a new generation of startup companies that have been transforming Austin’s market, and it’s exciting to witness founders who are developing amazing startups every day. Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston were ranked ?29 According to Inc. On top of that, we’re fourth in early-stage funding. Tom Foster for Inc.’s s “The 50 Best U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Panel with Joshua Baer 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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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Greg Abbott expects the rebuilding of Houston to cost up to $180 billion. Volunteer opportunities such as disaster clean-up, recovery phone-line and marketing are still open. It’s an added benefit, not a marketing ploy. Have a food and drink networking event while sending proceeds to charities. Everybody wins.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Houston, TX. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S. startup ecosystem for many decades. That culture helped garner upwards of $1.7 San Jose, CA.

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SiliconHills

JULY 16, 2012

On Sunday, Sprint officially launched its 4G LTE service in San Antonio, Houston Dallas and Waco and 11 other markets nationwide. “Sprint and our vendors have been deploying Network Vision sites all across the country for the last several months and we are thrilled to deliver our new network to our customers today in and [.].

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Q&A with Kasey Long, Marketing Director at Texas’s newest natural sports recovery drink: Rally Electrolyte Beverage As Kasey Long warms into her new role as the Marketing Director at sports drink startup Rally Electrolyte Beverage, her first priority was to understand the “why” of the product. said co-founder Eric Boss.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. Austin is different from Dallas which is different from Houston and San Antonio. Many businesses expand geographically city by city.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Quarri Technologies, a security software company that empowers organizations to keep their most sensitive data secure, today announced a $1.288 million round of financing led by Houston Angel Network (HAN) and Daylight Partners, accompanied by Texas Halo Fund.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 13, 2014

They told me all about why this is such a good idea: hard to manage price discovery in the commercial real estate market; fragmented information about vacancies obtained from landlords and brokers; and the large scale of transactions. They wanted to come to pitch to my angel network. I told them they lacked an inciting incident.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Hope to Meet Up On the Road written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Well, summer is definitely over and that means fall conference season is in full bloom. Then it’s back to Texas, Houston area this time, for the 52Wiki conference to talk Community Building.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb describes “Sell More Faster” as the indispensable guide for entrepreneurs seeking product-market fit, building their sales team, developing a growth strategy and chasing accelerated, repeatable selling success. “I Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In October we announced our $100,000 Dallas Investment Challenge and then in November the $100,000 Houston Investment Challenge. 100,000 isn’t all of the money you’ll ever need, but it’s enough for a scrappy team to focus full-time on building a minimum viable product and finding product market fit for about a year.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

If your company’s market is huge corporations, how do you convince investors you can crack the market, and how do you deliver? The great advantage of the B2B market is the potentially huge size of revenues from just one sale. He is an active angel investor, and he manages several angel funds in Texas. Starting up'

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch.

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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. Local/state governments.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Thanks to all of the news I received, I was able to avoid driving to Houston on what would have easily been the worst weekend to visit my second favorite Texas city. A rumor broke out during Harvey stating that immigration papers were needed in order to get assistance at Houston-area shelters. The maps on SNAP was useful today.

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Rob Go

APRIL 1, 2012

These folks also have more credibility to sell into enterprises, and have stronger networks within those enterprises. The “ Tom Brady Entrepreneurs ” will have learned at the side of Zuck, Andrew Mason, Jack Dorsey, Drew Houston etc. Technology and markets change so fast.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Throughout the day, you might chitchat and network with other people in the common areas?—?people Networking People benefit from being part of a community?—?from may come from your decision.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This mix is not a good start when it comes to sales and marketing. There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. Inbound marketing: Selling one-to-many. Inbound marketing has some downsides.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. Many of them have joined the network in the past year or two from Dallas and Houston.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

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. Many of them have joined the network in the past year or two from Dallas and Houston.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Who should I market to first? If you run things like a job, like if you have a career, you are not going to do what you need to do to build the business and to make yourself marketable. Because depending on who you are and who you stand for, and also what you stand against, that will determine who is going to be your target market.

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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. These innovations will make their way to commercial markets within the next 5–10 years.”

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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? This can work, too.

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