Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

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. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Mainstreaming Impact Investing Mainstreaming Impact Investing MAR 9, 2019 | 9:30AM?—?10:30AM

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To build a community. I wanted to be a part of a community of consultants that would provide me with the opportunity to build relationships with other practitioners, share lessons learned, and periodically collaborate. Photo Credit: Will Bachman.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In 2019 market conditions often are such that founders retain control of the board through the A-round, usually in a 2–1 (common to investor) ratio but sometimes it’s 3–2 (common to investor). If the CEO is popular in the community no VC wants to face the backlash in the community for firing a CEO unless it really is seen as the last resort.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2019, 181 CEOs of some of the world’s wealthiest companies, including Apple, Amazon, and Citigroup, signed a document declaring their intention to work for the benefit not just of shareholders, but also of customers, employees, and the society that is the source of their prosperity. So how will your organization do some good ?

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VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

If you think about virtual meetings, instead of being on Zoom — having a hologram of the person next to me to converse, a few years ago would be considered sci fi but now we have AR companies working on that,” he adds. In 2019 we had $6 million in revenue. This new medium has such a huge potential. With COVID-19, who knows?

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

She launched her financial practice, FARO Associates LLC (Latina/woman-owned/Minority Business Enterprise), and new fintech project, SHENIX, on her culturally-relevant financial services research and community needs. Crain’s Chicago Business named Olga among “Chicago’s Most Powerful Latinos” in 2019. My own experience.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I kicked off the idea to my current LPs that there would be another fund in February of 2019. She wound up pulling through—but yeah, after my wedding, things in 2019 kind of sucked. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, Amazon’s profits, and those of its founder and CEO, have spurred some conversation about how consumers should spend their money. The company’s treatment of workers, delays, and closer looks at its business practices are causing small communities to look elsewhere.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” I tried early on to engage him with data and conversation, but got nowhere. Hunter Walk : Thanks for doing this with me Kristen.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 21, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What are your goals for BehaviorMe in 2019? Help 300+ kids learn basic community life skills. Continue hiring an A+ team.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

The same goes for your sales conversations; why did new leads seek you out, and what objections do you hear during the sales process? Data sources include the publications, competitors, influencers, podcasts, and communities that your audience engages with the most. Go into each conversation with a broad set of questions.

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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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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

According to Infinite Dial 20, 55 percent—155 million—people in the United States listened to a podcast this year, up from 51 percent in 2019. 18- Conversational marketing. I believe conversational marketing is the most exciting trend we’ll be seeing this year and in the years to come. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 7, 2019

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. Mission-driven entrepreneurship is the answer to students who say, “I want to give back.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

In the SaaS industry alone, it’s estimated that every company founded in 2019 had around ten competitors on average. It builds brand equity with its entrepreneur audience by sharing helpful resources and creating a community of like-minded business builders. This has produced an army of community advocates. Every day in the 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. The phrases have defined brands.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2020

Below, I discuss five fresh and relevant features for marketers, regardless of technical ability: Kaggle datasets; Kaggle community analyses; Kaggle Notebooks; Kaggle cloud integrations; Machine learning with Kaggle. Kaggle community analyses: Jump start your analysis by reviewing others’ work. Kaggle has 3.5

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

My agency wouldn’t have expanded beyond digital PR if it weren’t for early client conversations. How you communicate as a function of that design is a critical problem that you should aim to solve. Listening to conversations among your peers is one of the fastest ways to find changes in the way they work. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2022

Forrester reports that since the pandemic, buyers now average 27 interactions when gathering information (up from 17 in 2019). This makes the right data harder to locate, resulting in poor conversion rates that affect revenues and dampen company culture. Cornerstone Fellowship uses omnichannel marketing to build community.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 14, 2020

2019 was all about the MVP, traction, software development, and infrastructure— we grossed $100,000. What do you want our community to know about eCarra? Saturday Startup Spotlight: eCarra 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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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2020

We developed Pages based on actual conversations we had with our customers,” explains Kenny Rueter, Kajabi co-founder and CEO. “We Posted by Kajabi on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. A recent user community meetup at Kajabi’s offices in Irvine, California. Core Functionality.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 25, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Our goal when creating MySideKick was to account for every single kind of user in a campus community?—?from how does your program work?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. Maybe we are talking about community servants or folks we previously thought were community servants.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 19, 2022

After having to reduce and rethink our strategy during COVID, we observed that our community and sales have skyrocketed. We have developed a new culture based on staff feedback, that is based around community. In 2019, I mainly dealt with biometric photo booths, but I wanted to create an application for taking photos for documents.

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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. She’s served as a mentor for Communities in Schools of Central Texas and continues to seek opportunities to serve in her community.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 30, 2018

The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community. Maker Faire Austin: May 5–6 at Palmer was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. They are of all ages and backgrounds.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We are also focusing a great deal on cyber-security as we have seen an all-time high in risks associated with doing business online in 2019. In 2019 we focused on adding new content to the site. 9- Changing our community. 2020 is going to be the year of making a difference in our local community. Thanks to Murat Bicak !

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

With SXSW bringing together the world’s tech, film, and music community in Austin, TX, you can’t ask for a better platform. But with the PanelPicker receiving over 4,300 proposals each year, how do you stand out for a shot at the 2019 SXSW stage? 2) Think Future-Focused Which trends will be relevant for your field in March of 2019?

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 5, 2020

Here are tips for improving communication with customers for startups. In 2019, there were 30.7 Business owners know how crucial communication with customers is as they’re the lifeblood of the company. You should also ditch emails and use modern production tools like Slack as it’s more laidback and conversational.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. We launched the larger channel back in 2012 and the smaller channel in 2019. Community engagement. The first thing we do is set our pixel to a 30-day conversion window.

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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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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. What are your goals for SteamChain in 2019? 2019 looks to be a breakout year for SteamChain. This is the hardest part.

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Austin Startup

MAY 13, 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. If you have a creativity-focused event that you want listed in this space, then please contact hugh at sxsw dot com.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

SXSW 2019 may still be many months away, but the time to vote for panels is now! Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. By: Tom Hadfiled, CEO @ M.io Technologist C.K.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 17, 2024

I even love leading a really meaningful performance feedback conversation. Textio relied on both of these strategies for a few years before launching our first truly generative AI capabilities back in 2019. I love leading workshops for the team on how to tell effective stories with data. This work is my zone of excellence.

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