Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Mucker’s first meeting with Emotive happened in November of 2018, though our initial investment wouldn’t happen until 18 months later in May 2020 when we would lead their Series A. Today, Emotive announces their $50M Series B closed just 7 months after to accelerate growth after a transformative year for eCommerce brands.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

It is 2018—why are there still light gray below-the-fold add to cart buttons? I mean developing and inserting a subtle collection of gentle nudges that can help increase the conversion rate by a statistically significant amount. Go look at your ecommerce conversion rate. Go look at your ecommerce conversion rate.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

When you started Snyk, did you think about the importance of building a community from the offset, and is that what drove your decisions in terms of building and architecting the product? The community approach is instrumental to the developer tooling landscape. It’s a community movement, rather than a technology or specific practice.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Unsurprisingly, that will continue in 2018. These four areas have been in conversations – and the news – recently and will continue to be hot topics in the coming months. These four areas have been in conversations – and the news – recently and will continue to be hot topics in the coming months. Privacy and Data Protection.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 30, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: April 30, 2018 Maker Faire is a family-friendly gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community. They are of all ages and backgrounds.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

It’s only our second year on the market and our biggest accomplishment of the year is launching the deluxe version of our LUCKY Life Planner 2018. So we’re excited to keep developing our little company and evolving our product line in 2018. We’re coming into 2018 with a significant momentum and a fiery determination.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: January 15, 2018 The final deadline to apply for the SXSW Release It program is the end of the day on Friday, January 19. This competition is designed for startups (as well as established companies) that have a product, a service or an app that will launch in the first quarter of 2018.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

The Forrest Four-Cast: August 20, 2017 More than any other mayor in the history of Austin, Steve Adler has courted and created strong ties with the city’s tech and startup community. Learn more about Adler’s vision of Austin’s tech community at the “ Tech Town Hall ” at 5:30 pm on Thursday, August 24 at Capital Factory.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Ask yourself if you will be aiming for the older generation, young mums, the gaming community or any other specific group of potential customers. These return visits will hopefully turn into conversions, and your sales will start to grow. An example can be seen with this guide: How to Make a Website in 2018.

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Austin Startup

MAY 13, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: May 13, 2018 Inclusiveness and diversity was one of the most important themes at SXSW 2018. John Slatin AccessU: May 14–16 in Austin was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 2, 2018

It is a community dedicated to live, spoken conversation online. Their aim is to create a space for intelligent, empathetic conversation (which we all know can be hard to find on the Internet today). The post Q3 2018 Summary: Portfolio News and Activities appeared first on Version One. Dialog (Helpful) launched.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2018

We asked 19 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2018. #1- Working with other business owners and entrepreneurs we are looking to create workshops for the local community to help assist them in entrepreneurship and winning the career lottery. I am so excited for 2018!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 28, 2017

Ignite and the City of Austin’s Communications and Technology Management Department. August 31 is GigaTECHs App Competition was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. The prize money is made possible by U.S

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

Conversational marketing. Drift “conversational marketing” 0.70 Drift and “conversational marketing”. For Drift, founded in 2014, that was easier said than done: Drift didn’t go all-in on “conversational marketing” until 2018. Inbound marketing. The subscription economy. Growth hacking. So how do you create one?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: June 5, 2018 Show your tech pride at the world’s only LGBTQIA-themed Startup Weekend Hackout ! Startup Weekend HackOut, June 7-10 was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm. 79 entry fee.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2018 We are less than a week away from the start of March Magic. So many amazing thought leaders will be gracing the Featured Speaker stages in 2018. From the Community Service Awards to the Outdoor Stage, browse the full list of official free activities here. SXSW Accelerator Finalists.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. Conversational AI has been here for a while now and it’s constantly improving. Conversational AI can help businesses achieve this.

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Board Effect

JANUARY 6, 2021

As the details of these tragedies unfolded, the incidents opened up a national conversation about the need to take a serious look at the issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion within every organization and walk of life. 2018-A New York study, What Lies Beneath: The State of NYC. of nonprofit boards were white.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2019

Social media is the only one which allows you to be hyper-granular and drill down to micro-segments, to dramatically improve engagement levels and conversion ratios. Identify the communities for these micro-segments. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 28, 2020

Engaging in conversation with potential or current clients over platforms like social media is a great place to start. Christopher Lee is the Marketing Manager at WNY Holdings LLC , a customer-focused digital marketing company that was started in 2018 to provide tailored marketing strategies for small businesses. Think Out of the Box.

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Brandanew

APRIL 23, 2018

The community was diverse with women entrepreneurs, working moms and senior professionals. What a wonderful turnout and great conversations. A post shared by Upasna Kakroo (@upasnakakroo) on Apr 16, 2018 at 8:26pm PDT. The glimmer of hope though, also came from the community. Feelings of guilt are counter-productive.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2018

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Next, we wanted the students to learn about the nation’s threats and security challenges while working with innovators inside the DoD and Intelligence Community. Hacking for Oceans. Hacking for Cities.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Friday, November 10 is also the application deadline for the 2018 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards. Nov 10 Deadline for SXSW 2018 was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

I even love leading a really meaningful performance feedback conversation. To this day, if you ask people who worked at Textio in 2018 what they most valued about their experience at the company, they will talk about the caliber of their coworkers and the energy they felt building alongside teammates in the office.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

We’ve been active within the regulatory community - as have you of course - to try to address this; I think it’s a critical issue to get right. We followed that closely and ultimately made the decision in early 2018 that there was enough of a market opportunity there to raise a dedicated fund to this effort.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. From September 2017 to September 2018, Milis Bio participated in the University College Cork IGNITE Incubator program, and they won Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of the Year for 2018. Business is a contact sport!

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2018

Startup Weekend HackOut 2018 is kicking off in Austin, June 7–10! link] || #SWHackOut The purpose of this event is to inspire potential entrepreneurs in the LGBTQA community to learn the ropes of validating an idea for a startup or lifestyle business and turn that idea into a business venture. Your community is here to help you.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

I got one of those in 2018, mere months after I started at data.world as their first growth marketing and demand generation hire. We had built the world’s largest open-data community but—like so many startups—didn’t have a clear product-market fit. . But if you have only a 5% conversion rate from MQL to SQL, something might be up.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

2018 was a bad year for some and to others, it was a great year. In the last few days of 2018, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- Our best accomplishment of 2018 was the launch of our first collection. Pivots were made and goals were shattered.

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Austin Startup

MAY 1, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 1 through May 7 are as follows: Monday, May 1: Food & Tech ATX Meet Up (FREE) If working on current or future challenges associated with food, you are invited to come network with innovators and ahead-of-the-curve thinkers in this community. At Capital Factory at 6:30 pm.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

They contacted the city to help and Paper Census , a collaboration between ATA and the City of Austin, launched in January 2018. Engage the Austin community As with any initiative of this kind, community engagement is critical. Be as transparent as possible, using a community engagement portal or a public dashboard.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I started with a tweet from Jeff Namnum about how he joined the tech community. We haven't done one in NYC in a while, but moreover it feels like the sense of a common community we used to have in the early days of the tech community has been replaced by scale and a lot of heads down work. Absolutely changed my trajectory.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Startup Chica Spotlight: Meet our 2019 Committee Members Meet the Austin professionals and community leaders who have embraced the Latinitas mission and helped make Startup Chica 2019 a reality. Currently, Nereyda is a Global Program Manager at Facebook where she leads global outsourcing initiatives for its community operations team.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Gifted Healthcare is listed as one of the Country’s 2018 Fastest-Growing Staffing Organizations by Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA). PK advises one to learn to convince and negotiate during difficult conversations. is listed as 2018’s 100 Most Influential People in Staffing. Health Carousel is one of the 2018 Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

As I sat in the dark hallway with the sounds of a loud conversation in Portuguese pouring through the door, only one thought was blazing through my head: had we pushed it too far? As these YouTubers showed what was possible, brands jumped in and tried to do the same thing, that is, create viral content and build communities of followers.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2023

Israeli B2C champions Back in 2018, when I last published the state of Israeli B2C startups on VC Cafe, I included success stories like Fiverr, Gett, Lemonade, MyHeritage, Houzz, Bizzabo and others. founded in 2018, raised $22M to date) HourOne – generative AI tex-to-video based on human presenters. Much has changed since then.

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