Austin Startup

JANUARY 24, 2019

The Startup world requires stepping outside of your comfort zone, the ability to take risks, resilience, innovation, and equal measures of planning and improvisation. But this list of super-skills isn’t exclusive to Startups?—?the (Austin, TX)?—?The the creative spark is alive and thriving within the Arts Community.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

His heroes were Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman growing up and the fictional Indiana Jones. But even as a little kid […] The post Techstars Austin’s Jason Seats on Startup Grind San Antonio appeared first on SiliconHills. At the age of eight, he thought he wanted to be an archaeologist.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

He explains why they chose Indiana Jones, Yoda, and Leonardo Da Vinci as the three individuals who capture what they want to be at Forward. Really what’s most exciting for me is the way that the startup ecosystem is growing and growing. Nic says that at Forward Partners they look up to characters who inspire and inform their work.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Forward Partners is a venture firm, but the size of our startup team and the way we support our partner companies makes us very different from conventional venture capitalists. But secondly, it’s important that Forward Partners is a great place to work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, March 6, 2010 Startup Visa update As I write this, I am traveling at 30,000 feet on Virgin Americas excellent IAD->SFO nonstop, following an intense few days of conversations in Washington, DC about the Startup Visa. Your support has been critical to everything thats happened with Startup Visa.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2016

This is the kind of message successful entrepreneurs and public figures share at Failfest, an annual celebration of failure that brings together entrepreneurs in Indiana. John Wechsler is the founder of Launch Fishers and an active advisor to entrepreneurs and startup teams. The event’s biggest takeaway?

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The five year old startup has raised $20 million to date. This is the company’s first office outside of its Indiana headquarters. […] The post SmarterHQ Opens Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills. The company, based in Indianapolis, recently received $8 million in financing led by the Simon Venture Group.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

From the way we invest and support startups, to how employees can own and build wealth in companies, to how finance can be used to reshape traditionally philanthropic sectors such as the environment and early childhood education, Colorado is leading the way.” This conference is not just about Coloradans.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 23, 2020

If you’ve ever founded a startup, you know how impactful it can be to work side by side, bounce ideas off each other, and collaborate as you learn more about opportunities and challenges in your market. Still, nothing beats face-to-face interaction. So we started planning a 2-day offsite together in New York.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Main Street Venture Fund LLC, an angel fund of about 25 private investors, was formed by Ruffolo Benson LLC in northeast Indiana with the intention of bringing together area entrepreneurs and private investors to create economic value for the region. I will share several of our group’s insights from the past two years.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2011

It has never been so easy to get a startup up and off the ground these days. You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. On to of that, connected communities of entrepreneurs are better at incubating and supporting startups now than ever before.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Louis has a different kind of transportation exchange: most of the major cross-country Internet pipelines have points of presence in various office buildings, so Web startups have access to a variety of connectivity. Today, downtown St. There are a number of hosting providers who offer services from downtown St.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 4, 2011

ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteWeb Channels ReadWriteStart ReadWriteBiz ReadWriteEnterprise ReadWriteCloud ReadWriteHack ReadWriteMobile International ReadWriteBrazil ReadWriteChina ReadWriteFrance ReadWriteSpain ReadWriteCloud All Posts VMworld Archives Case Studies White Papers RSS Twitter Facebook Would You Outsource Your Startup to a SaaS?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Driving to Bloomington a few weeks ago on my way to the older son’s graduation from IU, I was struck as I always am by the sight of a massive windfarm along I65 in central Indiana. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon. Lean Business: Do Unto Others*.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. As is often the case, I was wrong, and they turned their startup, Pushpins (acquired by Ebates in 2013), into a success. Don’t Fear Rejection.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 23, 2020

If you’ve ever founded a startup, you know how impactful it can be to work side by side, bounce ideas off each other, and collaborate as you learn more about opportunities and challenges in your market. Still, nothing beats face-to-face interaction. So we started planning a 2-day offsite together in New York.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This directory was created by New York-based digital agency Kettle , “because it’s easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an app to find a decent app developer,&# according to the site’s creators. Fees for these devs and shops run from under $5,000 to more than $20,000.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 20, 2020

by Daniel Pigg , director of business engagement and an instructor at Indiana State University. Statistically, plenty of startups fail — up to 90% a year. Here are several unconventional ways to generate the fiscal momentum necessary to breed startup success: 1. Would you bet money on an inexperienced horse? Few people would.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

In the mid-90s, late '94, early '95 my buddy and I were trying to figure out the best way to listen to Indiana basketball and we had to have a speakerphone where we had one set up in Bloomington, Indiana, one in Dallas, Texas. MC : Then took a couple of years off.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Driving to Bloomington a few weeks ago on my way to the older son’s graduation from IU, I was struck as I always am by the sight of a massive windfarm along I65 in central Indiana. Hundreds of gargantuan windmills line the fields in orderly rows almost to the horizon. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). And Courseload, the Indiana-based digital-textbook enterprise. While people in the article claim ‘this time is different, I am not so sure. (I

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 3, 2011

Driving through Iowa, Indiana or southern Illinois, they’re pretty hard to miss towering and turning on the horizon. As a startup things always happen last minute and we can’t break the bank on them. I’ve always known that coaching and advisors are important, but in the startup world it’s magnified 10000x.

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Rob Go

MAY 21, 2014

One of my friends in Boston admitted that he had never heard of Simplisafe until “one of my friends in Indiana bought it and installed it (and loved it)” What are other companies that built huge businesses focused on regular people as customers? This is counter-intuitive, but Boston startups I find are often too early.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

So now I'm home-based in Austin, Texas and I'm spending a lot of time with a lot of startups and a lot of CEOs that are trying to scale their companies. And I'm usually the rah-rah business transformation, startups guy, so even I feel like I've been infected by the sense that we're in a really dark place. And it's just beautiful.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. They were there for the job, not the startup. Thanks a lot for writing. Thanks again. link] Mark V. davetomback Great post.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

So when we were coming up with business names for it, we tried all of the startup tricks- removing vowels at weird places, (Nsights) replacing similar sounding letters (Kontentmetriks, Serendipiti, Metrix), or even combining parts of my and my co-founder’s names (Brato, which was short for Brandon and Tony). Photo Credit: Joe Horan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Unlike being the Mayor of, let’s say, South Bend Indiana, it’s not exactly the kind of thing you can learn on the job. If you donate $250 here , and send me the receipt to charlie@brooklynbridge.vc , I will consult with you for an hour of my time on your startup pitch, VC career trajectory—anything you think I could be helpful with.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I believe turnover and recruiting are some of the biggest capital leaks in startups, so it makes sense for VC’s to try to plug this hole. Strong connections to a top university (in our case, Indiana University), are an invaluable asset in creating a talent pipeline for portfolio companies.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I believe turnover and recruiting are some of the biggest capital leaks in startups, so it makes sense for VC’s to try to plug this hole. Strong connections to a top university (in our case, Indiana University), are an invaluable asset in creating a talent pipeline for portfolio companies.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The founder had not thought about his go to market approach, he had not researched competitors, and he had not done any market testing because it wasn’t convenient for him (wrong time of year – too hot in Indiana, so he didn’t bother). This founder isn’t ready to be a startup CEO. BEV BUCKLE.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Startups offering a new product can provide a demonstration of testing said product to highlight its value in a dynamic way. Companies can host live video feeds on the street where they ask passersby to try their product relative to the competition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 5, 2018

Welcome to the new year. What will it bring? Hopefully a lot less hatred, greed, stupidity, and angst than 2017. But we’re not holding our breath. We emerged from the winter break pondering several of the year’s burning biopharma questions, including the volatility of the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

One of the most talked about Fireside Chat’s of the 2-day Upfront Summit was the talk between my friend Joe Green and Pete Buttigieg , the mayor of South Bend, Indiana aka “The Happy Warrior” currently in a bid to become the new head of the DNC ( you can learn more here ). Joe and Pete went to college together at Harvard.

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