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! Capital Factory has been the most active investor in Texas since 2010.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin?—?culminating culminating in an epic 10 year birthday party for Capital Factory! 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.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. 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.

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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. Venture capital. The same applies to cities.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston. He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. He’s also on the board of the Planetary Society and the Arch Mission.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Did you know that our venture capital structure — the structure we use to invest in startups — was originally developed for 19th-century whaling expeditions, with very little innovation since? Second, we need to innovate as much in HOW we invest as WHAT we invest in. Fortunately, I’m seeing Austin think differently.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival.

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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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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston. Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Forum December 9th Lineup - Startup Houston , November 27, 2010 When to step on the gas and go for it? 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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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

janryan (@janryan) | Twitter Kerry Rupp Kerry is a Capital Factory Mentor and founding partner of True Wealth Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in women-led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health verticals. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Every day we host dozens of “office hours” meetings between entrepreneurs and people from our mentor network who can help them. As part of the Texas Startup Manifesto , we are expanding the mentor network from Austin to all of Texas, starting with our partners The DEC in Dallas, Geekdom in San Antonio and other partners in Houston.

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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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