The Startup Magazine

APRIL 15, 2022

Houston is a big city – an urban sprawl that could swallow up the municipal definitions of Los Angeles in its footprint, or two New York Cities. With an eye on speed, patient care, and growth they offered Marise a job as Senior Vice President of Sales. . This unusual decision, however, soon paid off. Marise Condon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

billion dollar sale to Oracle from Bozeman, Montana. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai. Maxwell Wessel, in a classic article in the Harvard Business Review on this subject, points out the exception successes of Zappos in Las Vegas, Sendgrid’s massive growth in Colorado, and RightNow’s $1.5 The list goes on and on.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

While a short-lived experience, a thank you page reaches visitors while they’re still just a click or two away from a sale ; a confirmation page places added steps between a recent converter and another conversion. Should you have waited for a sale? Note: If you’re delivering the item via email (e.g. Did you make the right choice?

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Capital Factory’s Texas Fund , in partnership with Beam Angel Network , Seven Seven Six Fund , and Golden Seeds (Houston) , is excited to announce the next $100,000 Investment Challenge at our 4th Annual Women In Tech Summit. Houston based Syzygy Plasmonics is developing a green power source from hydrogen fuel cell technology and raised a $5.8

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2021

To get there, we’ve modified our service mix, processes, upgraded our team and refocused our sales and marketing efforts. We stayed firm and even did a sale for our customers which had the proceeds benefiting the CDC foundation to provide PPE equipment to front-line responders to the virus. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil ! #4-

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2013

Sam at Website Design Houston : “When I was starting out I was working for a non-profit for a few hours a week to help them build and manage their website. Ultimately one of their board members saw the great work and recommended me to one of the fastest growing companies in Houston and that was my first paid job.”.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

While it’s likely that you have a general city in mind, there’s a lot more to finding commercial real estate in Houston , San Diego, and even the smaller cities in between. From basics regarding sales to how to create the perfect customer experience for your brand, training can have a large impact on the success of your storefront.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Winners include thriving Texas startups like Dallas-based ShearShare , Houston-based GroupRaise , and Austin-based Journey Foods. million in funding Houston’s GroupRaise is a marketplace that helps groups of 20–200 people make reservations at restaurants willing to donate a percentage of the sales back to a charitable cause.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. They shorten the sales cycle, mitigate risks, and provide assurance in the context of technical due diligence. We facilitate Design Sprints in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

We successfully completed the grand opening for our new office located in Houston, Texas. In Houston, we will continue our work in the criminal defense industry, defending clients and protecting their rights. #4 – New Office. Image Credit: Christopher Corso. This past summer was an exciting time for our firm.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 21, 2015

. “I doubt that you consulted the Navajo Nation about using their tribal name on sophisticated items such as the ‘Navajo Hipster Panty,''” wrote Navajo Nation member Sasha Houston Brown. These items, along with many others, were also quietly discontinued. Tinder delivers a million dollars worth of sexism.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Greg Abbott expects the rebuilding of Houston to cost up to $180 billion. Whether you’re in e-commerce or rely on in-person customers for your service, advertise and donate portions of your sales for the relief fund. Entrepreneurs for Houston (E4H) launched a $10 million campaign to fund their volunteers and codify their efforts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2017

Make sure you do, and you’ll be a winner regardless of the outcome in Houston. It might not guarantee sales, but you won’t even have a chance until people are aware of the venture. Therefore, everything you do in business should be geared towards your end zone, which means converting the sale. Teamwork Is Everything.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 15, 2014

LiveOak Venture Partners of Austin has invested $2 million in CS Disco, a Houston-based software company. CS Disco plans to use the Series A funds “to triple the size of its engineering, sales, and operations teams and expand its offices in Houston in 2014,” according to a news release.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When Michael was a high school student, he took a job selling newspaper subscriptions to the Houston Post through telephone cold-calling. When he realized that newlyweds tended to subscribe at higher rates than others, he figured out how to simultaneously focus and scale his sales efforts. And ‘Can’t wait to work with you!'”

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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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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

Learning new skills, technologies, communication styles, networking tactics, sales strategies, and other things is crucial to your success in a business. Thanks to AJ Saleem, Suprex Tutors Houston . #18- Along with learning, sharing that information with others is just as important to my happiness as an business owner.

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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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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

.” And with the right culture in place Blinds.com had its best year yet in spite of a down economy and down housing market, doing more than US$80 million in sales annually. And the company was even named as Houston’s top place to work by the Houston Business Journal this year.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

How do you judge a company’s prospects, if a corporate business-to-business sale has to be your game? Just to be up front, as an investor, I am allergic to companies which rely on making potentially huge sales to corporate clients. The great advantage of the B2B market is the potentially huge size of revenues from just one sale.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley. Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2012

However, the sale of a piece of property doesn’t signal anything. Phillips 66 to build global headquarters in West Houston. Sometimes major financial incentives, usually in the form of tax relief, is offered as a sweeter. In the situations where this works, I can imagine a long term economic benefit to a region.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Some of them are entrepreneurship superstars like Steve Blank, Marc Andreessen, Drew Houston, Leah Busque, Scott Cook and Dave Binetti. If you’re considering joining us and you haven’t yet bought a ticket, today—right now—is the time to register. The main day of the conference, December 3, includes more than 30 speakers.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We’ve grown our farm support staff and our sales team, and are now preparing to scale our operations in other cities. In 2019, you should see GrubTubs moving into San Antonio, Dallas and Houston, both to large scale facilities and Mom and Pop restaurants. How are your plans shaping up to expand beyond Austin?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2012

Ash did spend a year at the University of Houston studying to become a doctor, but she gave it up and returned to her passion of sales instead of pursuing a medical career. She married young and had three children, building her cosmetic empire as an uneducated working mother. Thomas Edison.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 10, 2016

They are based out of Houston, Texas, and the founders have a proven track record (and clearly a large following). As an added bonus, it turns customers into marketing and sales agents for your business, because once they become an investor they have a vested interest in the success of the business (and getting their money back).

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 2, 2010

According to this study, companies that use Facebook and its fan page module to market themselves to customers can increase sales, word-of-mouth marketing, and customer loyalty. Dholakia and Durham surveyed customers of Dessert Gallery (DG) , a popular Houston-based café chain. Prior to the study, DG did not have a Facebook presence.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

We’ll also have copies of my book (all proceeds from sales will go to Entrepreneurs for Houston, a group of entrepreneurs rebuilding another great city post-Harvey). RSVP here if you’d like to join. Austin, we have a problem.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, don't invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. This mix is not a good start when it comes to sales and marketing. Step 2: Choose your sales channels. Direct sales: Selling one-to-one.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s a commercial cleaning business, and one down in Houston, Texas, a property management company. They do phenomenal things, great marketing, great sales systems, good culture, all of that sort of stuff. If a business today has to have human interaction to make a sale then its scalability factor is limited.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 3, 2010

His first stop was Houston, Texas, where he owned an executive placement business. They took the proceeds of the sale and used it as a base to grow their commercial real estate holdings. When he was in his fifties, he took his next major risk by deciding to leave the corporate world and became a full-time entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Consider the method used by TPGTEX Label Solutions, a Houston -based software company that specializes in bar codes and labels for manufacturers and chemical companies. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2018

I began to host these event to bring together like-minded people so I could have stronger business relationships within Houston. As we began to work, we noticed more people were sending us messages saying what they felt was missing in a community here in Houston. We will use coworking spaces that already exist in Houston.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Three years ago brothers Rodrigo Aramburu (CEO) and Felipe (CTO), from Houston were working on a consulting project for the Peruvian government involving 14 legacy systems. Delivery delivery models span from API, SaaS, PaaS and Enterprise Sales and even consumer. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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