Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2018

They Build Skill and Agility This one’s a gimme: passion projects are opportunities to learn and test new skills, techniques or approaches efficiently. Whether it’s participating in an Instagram challenge or developing an independent concept, finding a robust self-generated project roster is a strong symbol of value.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. 4 LAUNCH EVENT FOR NEW BOOK ‘SELL MORE FASTER’ (AUSTIN, TEXAS ? —?Aug. Voltron Room (701 Brazos, Austin, Texas 78701) that same day. Austin, TX?—? Austin, TX Nov. 30, 2019; source: Juice Consulting) ? —? RSVP here Sept. RSVP here Sept.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Winners in 10 categories will be honored at the Accelerator Award Ceremony at 7 pm on Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin. Based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, DashTag will show off its own stats at 12:30 pm Sunday, March 11, along with the other finalists in Sports and Performance Data Technology , at the Hilton Austin, Salon AB.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Jeff Degraff took to the stage and wasted no time in jump-starting the conversation, “What does your innovation kill?” Moderator Kevin Landtroop was joined by Tony Perez , Director of Spark for AFWERX, Matthew Scott , Director of AFWERX Austin, Jason Ballard , CEO and co-founder at ICON3D, and Larsen Jensen , co-founder of Harpoon.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

We believe in attracting and retaining the best talent and that culture is the operating system that powers our company here in Austin. And while not more important than the other lines of our credo, I love when we put our minds to “be lean, be agile, and small teams kick ass. So how do you go about it?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2020

It leads to an increase in quick and direct conversations and, ultimately, to fewer meetings and more space and time for the things we want (and need) to do. Circular Conversations. Everyone starts talking haphazardly and conversations go in circles. We’ve got things backward: we meet and then do “the work” after the meeting.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Staying ahead of the curve in a competitive world Written by: Farouk Dossa , Senior Account Executive SXSW is a film, interactive media, and music festival and conference held in Austin, Texas that draws thousands of people from all over the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Conversion optimization is a form of kaizen.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. We trade off resources for agility, which I love, and the need to be resourceful. I both enjoy and hate the need to viciously prioritize. We need to be creative to address challenges.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Id be honored to have you join the conversation. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Id be honored to have you join the conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Unfortunately, the video of our sllconf conversation is not online (due to technical problems), but we have a physical tape backup which we are endeavoring to get online soon. Although many of the non-technical folks in the room didnt understand what was happening in the moment, plenty of hackers were on high alert. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. And how do you pick a new direction? Both are lethal outcomes. Expo SF (May.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Photodex is a little company you've never heard of I worked for in Austin in the 90's. Even "cool, agile" companies like 37signals are trapped. Leave a comment and join the conversation. Google's search algorithm was just better, therefore they won the eyeballs, therefore they were able to monetize.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. I think theyve succeeded. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. Leave a comment or reply to someone else. Fostering that dialog is important. Expo SF (May.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

I always learn a ton from him and this conversation was no exception. For example, it doesn’t make sense to combine an order in San Francisco and an order in Austin into one trip or send a shopper in Austin to deliver in SF. So, by definition, San Francisco and Austin are different zones.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

He summarized that conversation well, so rather than re-tread that material, Ill quote it here: One thing that I was surprised to learn was that IMVU started out with continuous deployment. They were deploying to production with every commit before they had an automated build server or extensive automated test coverage in place. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

How Austin’s Smart City Infrastructure could resolve social and economic inequities amplified by Austin’s technological and industrial growth Like many other fast-growing urban centers, my hometown of Austin, TX has reached a historic tipping point triggered by Austin’s rapid urbanization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups. Thats what this conference is for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Austin Startup

JULY 27, 2019

One of the things we’re trying to do at Daimler Trucks North America is not only move faster, accelerating into the digital age, but also find tech that we can implement faster and is more agile than some of the more traditional systems that we currently have.” Our winners of the @DaimlerTrucksNA Hackathon were announced!

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said. Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. Great post! You do a great job articulating. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. We see the benefits of being an agile tech startup and the limitations of the financial systems, and we are bridging the gap between those two ecosystems. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin. But as they added new features, their conversations with users had changed - they became more narrowly focused on new features and whether each individual change was usable and useful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

If you find yourself getting asked non-key questions, try to use your answers to steer the conversation back to the key questions. Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

The advantages of cross-functional teams are well documented, and for a thorough treatment I recommend the theory in the second half of Agile Software Development with Scrum. I want to focus here on one particular strength: the ability to operate semi-autonomously. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. After a few months of early beta at IMVU, we discovered that our actual conversion rate was about 0.4%. That’s not too surprising, because our product was pretty bad in those days. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

JULY 17, 2019

But I think the biggest reason RPA is special is that we have a chance to increase speed, agility, and efficiency without culture change. Join us in Austin August 6–7th, at the AT&T Executive Conference Center. Without this, RPA adoption would be gated by centralized decision-making, bake-offs, and central planning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 2, 2010

By all accounts, the conversation was a success. By all accounts, the conversation was a success. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Maycotte answered some questions about his Austin-based company. Their superpower is joining data lakes with data streams to power real-time, intelligent applications. CEO Higinio O. The people.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 21, 2018

However, working in an agile environment means that you’re able to react quickly to feedback and therefore future plans are quite flexible and less detailed. How to Kick-Off the Design of an MVP 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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