Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Amir Elaguizy pitching Cratejoy on stage at SXSW 2014 I know lots of investors from Texas and from around the world who are visiting Austin for SXSW and want to know where to go and how to plug in. Here are the lounges, parties, pitches and panels I can share publicly. You can see a much larger list at the end. or maybe just #GrumpyCat.

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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. Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 18, 2012

Each Sunday I’ll pick an item that is for me a foundation element in my line up of stuff that matters or as legendary Texas singer songwriter Guy Clark put it – “The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.”. This is a new Sunday series that I’m calling Stuff that Works. Steve McQueen's blue tinted lens Persols in Thomas Crown Affair.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Begin by taking stock of yourself and your situation: Why do you want to start a business? Like, if you think your target market is people making above a certain income in south Texas, a list broker may be able to tell you how many people fit that criteria, to give you a sense of how big your target market actually is. Sabrina Parsons.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

Community lenders can be found across the country, from Opportunity Fund in California; LiftFund , with offices in Texas and the southeast; Business Center for New Americans in New York City; and Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Lenders can secure loans with equipment, a stock portfolio, or other assets. Respect the process.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

The company really started over 8 years ago with a nickname from my fans in South Texas who affectionately gave me the nickname, Juan Lobo, which is my name in Spanish. As a financial planner, money was my stock in trade; however, I discovered true wealth was in good health and relationships. Thanks to Sara Schaer, Kango ! #7-

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

No matter how well my team did I knew that at the end of the year I would earn a predetermined salary with a small bonus that was based on the company stock performance. Louis and now Texas. Before becoming a business owner I used to be a manager at the Boeing company and managed a team of engineers working on the 787 Dreamliner.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2019

Stocked with cutting-edge technology, the VR Lab enables entrepreneurs, investors, VIPs, and tech influencers to learn about emerging technologies and the impact they have on their industries. In December 2016, Capital Factory launched Austin’s first VR Lab. One company will walk away with a $100,000 investment.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2020

The small coffee shops that usually stock their product are closed, but no fear, you can still enjoy a guiltless pleasure, delivered to your doorstep. If you’re blessed to live in the State of Texas, companies like Favor ( [link] ), will find and deliver anything to your home.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Not unless you’re Elon Musk and Governor Abbott has a smile as wide as the Texas Panhandle or you’re Joe Rogan and every tech bro in Austin is so pumped to point to your move (and Tim Ferriss’ move) here as some kind of stamp of approval that they never needed Silicon Valley. The State of Texas looms large over Austin politics.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2019

We build a robotic convenience pantry that places your everyday essentials and frequent out-of-stocks closest to your front door. Meeting anybody locally, any Texas-based Seed investors, family offices and also Angels would be on my immediate checklist. [link] Can you introduce yourself and give us your elevator pitch?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He led to the development of top Extensions like Magento PopUP and Magento Out of Stock Notification. He lives in Austin, Texas and currently working as a E-commerce consultant. He blogs regularly on ecommerce tips and tricks, PHP Development and social media.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Back in the mid 1990’s I had a front row seat to watch Dell’s ascendance from a small company in Austin, Texas to the world’s largest manufacturer of personal computers.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

It’s an online graphic design software that provides thousands of ready-made, professionally designed promotional design templates and millions of high-quality stock images, all in an easy to use, intuitive editor. A Texas Tech study showed that brands that engage on social media have stronger, more loyal followings.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 9, 2017

From running around Manhattan in 2008 selling to restaurants while the world economy was in tatters, to the first hire of a startup based out of Estonia, to my current role in Austin, Texas it sure has been a windy road. There have been many highs and lows along the way and many yet to come, but rarely a dull moment along the journey so far.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2014

Southwest cares so much about employees and customers that LUV is the company’s stock symbol. When a diner at Texas-based Pappas Restaurants (there are more than 100) informs a server that he or she has a food allergy, a manager comes to the table to find out exactly what the allergy is. Southwest Airlines. Pappas Restaurants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) 18:08) Carl's experiences at USAA following Hurricane Harvey's devastating 2017 hit on Texas. (18:21) Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22)

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

I got a call from this place in Texas. The clean, the inventory room, stock everything correctly. And I'm like, gosh, how can that always be true? Speaker 1 (05:15): Cause it seems like there's always this churn of firing and you clean on a few good people. It's a barbecue. It's called Kings smokehouse or Kings barbecue smokehouse.

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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. That's where things go wrong. No big deal. Worked for almost two years. I'm like, "Tell me you didn't cash it."

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

In 2012, JCPenney’s sales were down more than 20 percent and its stock price had plummeted 30 percent. Worse, he got rid of practically everyone who knew anything about clothing retailing, including 600 folks from the company’s Texas headquarters and thousands of middle managers across the country. What Went Wrong?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 11, 2012

Each Sunday I’ll pick an item that is for me a foundation element in my line up of stuff that matters or as legendary Texas singer songwriter Guy Clark put it – “The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall.”. This is a new Sunday series that I’m calling Stuff that Works. Bob's Red Mill founder Bob Moore.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I did, which is why I petitioned to take user experience design courses during my business school days at The University of Texas and concurrently enrolled in a part-time coding bootcamp during my final semester. One essential element of communication is leveraging data. It’s not that compelling to state “I believe X to be true.”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 6, 2022

Pro tip: First take stock of where and how data is stored. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Maggie Douglas is a copy editor living in Orlando, Fla. Here is where your IT or network security teams shine. They monitor your company’s infrastructure all day every day, and they should know when something is amiss.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If later on the founders all agree that things should have been distributed differently because their initial estimates were off, the situation can be remedied through the issuance of additional stock options to the deserving parties. « High Tech Startup Packages Where Should I Incorporate: Delaware, Texas, California, Nevada?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Out of State VCs When you’re not CEO Material Preferred Stock v. Common Stock Ask the Users Because we’re known as Startup/VC lawyers who don’t represent VCs (just companies), I often get asked about my thoughts on “founder friendliness.” Good entrepreneurs and advisors know that. Background reading: Local v.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2020

” Britt Berrett, former president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, emphasizes the need to show your people who don’t necessarily share your values that you care. Right now, many people all over the world are taking stock of their lives and vowing to become better, kinder, more loving human beings.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

When I was a kid, I played junior tennis in Texas from age 10 – 14. We went to Rancho Valencia and played tennis at least five days a week and I used this trip to completely reboot my tennis game. I stopped playing around age 14 when I discovered girls and computers.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Basically, it’s common intuition that in a fearful market, people are looking to irrationally sell stock and in a greedy market people are looking to buy. You’re definitely aware of that Warren Buffett saying (or some variation of it), “Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.”. If she can do it, I can too, right?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

it could be your next investor or a big customer or the next president of the U.S. or maybe just #GrumpyCat. 2019 Capital Factory VIP Lounge during SXSW Interactive The 16th floor kitchen and coworking area will be buzzing with even more energy and excitement than normal. The ABC’s of SXSW Don’t forget the ABC’s of SXSW?—?Always Always Be Charging!

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

But the reality is that coronavirus cases are rising in states such as California and Texas, which has prompted some to worry about whether spa businesses should be shut down once again. After being stuck in homes for months being stressed out at the world going into flames, a spa treatment can sound like a wonderful thing.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Automatic extension, or conversion into common stock, upon achieving certain milestones — for example, upon raising an additional convertible note round, or hitting certain metrics — are another good option. Extensions are very common. Lawyers specialized in early-stage financing can help here.

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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. Before a storm hits, make sure your vehicle is weather-ready, your disaster kit is stocked & your family/friends know how to reach you!

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The University of Texas at Austin’s Longhorn Startup Demo Day AND Texas Venture Labs are underway and given the incredible and increasing impact Texas is having on entrepreneurship and innovation, I thought we should talk about cattle. The Unicorn Startup The Unicorn is a mythical beast.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Virtual Stock Exchange. Stock Quotes. based companies initially funded by venture capital between 2006 and 2011, 84% now are closely held and operating independently, 11% were acquired or made initial public offerings of stock and 4% went out of business, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. AllThingsDigital. AllThingsDigital.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Why is it that when I just visited news.yahoo.com, the ad says "New Rule in Texas!", Shows me again if the product is in stock. Underneath are two, mostly likely stock, photos of Farmers "Chuck" and "Frank" bearing copy that is almost certainly lawyer-approved – it is bereft of any passion.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The estimated annual GMV of GOAT and its leading competitor Stock X is already over $1B per year (on a combined basis). RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2015, Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano launched GOAT , a marketplace for the exchange of sneakers. SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES.

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