SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. On the rare occasion that it rains in Austin we get these deep puddles in the backyard. But, seeing it articulated so well and establishing a common vocabularly for us to talk about it is immensely valuable.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 4, 2011

Lean startups: Office space for the 21st Century (what to consider when leasing office space) – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Sweet Music Doc Straight Out of Austin – [link].

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

Reply Thomas Finsterbusch , on May 7, 2009 at 2:24 pm Said: I’m a PhD Student in CS at UT Austin, and Austin too has all the crucial resources necessary for startups (VCs, angels, law firms, top talent, etc.).

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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) 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. You're usually your own worst critic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 5, 2012

Lean Startup ideas will be a big part of the festival this year. Last year SXSW invited me to produce an official Lean Startup track for the conference, which I did in partnership with 500 Startups. And so I've once again partnered with 500 Startups in an effort to bring you the most comprehensive Lean Startup event ever.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

I first got to know the person who recruited me to HomeAway when he volunteered as a judge at Jason Calicanis ’ LAUNCH festival hackathon , for which my friends and I flew from Austin to San Francisco just to participate and surround ourselves with some of the world’s smartest developers, designers and tech nerds at-large. family of brands.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. Outstanding review of the iPhone 6/Plus focusing on photo and video capabilities (versus 5S) – Austin Mann crowdspring.co/XNQsuX. This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Hiring startup engineers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The Lean Startup Book is done. If you've been waiting for a comprehensive account of the Lean Startup and how it can help you achieve dramatically better business results, this is it. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I found TechRanch Austin and signed up for their Venture Forth program, an 8-week entrepreneurial bootcamp designed to support and rapidly accelerate new ventures. As a “seasoned&# entrepreneur, I was primarily looking for a few bits of wisdom and a group of like-minded souls to lean on.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. A hippie at heart with a strong leaning towards verifiable, peer-reviewed scientific results. Walk us through your team members and the collaboration involved in the BehaviorMe creation process. Andrea VIllegas?—?A

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Jonathan Van, a student at UT Austin, co-founder of UT Entrepreneurship Week, is currently coordinating the Austin Lean Startup Machine. But tonight Van is hosting a Lean Startup Machine Pre-Show featuring Travis McCutcheon of Leap for Mankind. He will be teaching a Lean Startup 101 class at Capital Factory. [.]

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Jonathan Van, a student at UT Austin, co-founder of UT Entrepreneurship Week, is currently coordinating the Austin Lean Startup Machine. But tonight Van is hosting a Lean Startup Machine Pre-Show featuring Travis McCutcheon of Leap for Mankind. He will be teaching a Lean Startup 101 class at Capital Factory. [.]

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

Snapchat is a “lean forward” technology. If a company like MakeSpace that offers physical storage for households in NYC, Chicago and DC wants to advertise why should it waste its resources on a product that serves up ads in Austin, Texas? Engagement. Users are highly engaged. Brand Recall / Uniqueness.

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Up and Running

MARCH 4, 2013

Entrepreneur Zack Price is guest blogging his experience this week on the 2013 StartupBus as it makes its way from Chicago to SXSW in Austin. Before we left Chicago, I emailed the grandaddy of the Lean Startup movement , Eric Reis , for some ultra lean skinny tips. You can catch up with Post #1 in this series here. .

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 12, 2013

One of the great things about being a startup entrepreneur in the Austin and San Antonio region is there are tons of resources to help with the venture. One of those is Lean Startup Machine, based on the ideas from Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup book.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

For Austin, one of the first steps is going paperless. In 2017, Austin City Council passed the Smart Cities Strategic Roadmap. The nonprofit Austin Tech Alliance (ATA) noted that the city would need to move past paper-driven processes to fully benefit from smart city opportunities.

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SiliconHills

JUNE 19, 2013

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News The founders of Cubit had a list of failures for each of their five years, but decided not to enumerate those for the crowd of 150 at Austin Lean Startup Circle at Capital Factory Tuesday night. The post Cubit’s Lean Startup Journey to Profitability appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

I have been responsible for organizing and wrangling mentor groups for the Longhorn Startup Program for UT Austin undergraduates when I as an instructor there. The better universities, like GA Tech and UT Austin, are leading the charge in making entrepreneurship part of the curriculum at the undergraduate level.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Arena Growth Partners | Venture Capital and Private Equity | Austin, Texas - Venture to Lead™ Aspect Ventures We bridge the gap between your seed and later stage venture so together, we can turn great ideas into great companies. A New Kind of Venture Firm AutoChrome Autochrome is an inception and seed stage venture capital fund.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Lean Startup Machine is proud to be holding an Austin workshop the weekend of September 21-23.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 12, 2012

” Food on the Table — a now-famous lean juggernaut in Austin run by IMVU alum Manuel Rosso — talked to 120. At AppSumo , another Austin startup with startling growth, Noah Kagan ( this guy and that guy ) talked to 0 people initially, but maintains ruthless pressure on a tight and measurable product.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. in computer science, environmental engineering and middle east studies from Stanford, Austin College and the American University in Cairo. This post is part two. Part one is here. Syllabus here. Xu Cui (Ph.D, Stay tuned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

After eight years in San Francisco, the Lean Startup Company's annual flagship conference is moving to downtown Las Vegas. From November 14 - 16, at the Zappos Campus, Lean Startup Conference 2018 will feature all-new workshops, speakers, and networking events covering all the latest Lean Startup insights and innovations.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The next semester, I went to a seminar sponsored by the organization Lean In when during a power point presentation I learned that less tan 18% of CS students were female. Several times, I would count the female students who showed up that day and I typically counted 5 or 6 students including myself. Bloomberg , 14 Sept 2017, [link].

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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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

A winner in each of 10 categories will be announced at the SXSW Accelerator Award Ceremony, 7 pm Sunday, March 11, at the Hilton Austin. First, frustration that video viewing on OTT, IPTV, TV and even VR were lean back alone experiences and not together with your friends who are separated by distance. Two things.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2018

I leaned hard on the latter and no one paid much attention to what we were really doing. Prove Yourself When it comes to fundraising, Austin (maybe other areas) cares about proving that you can be an entrepreneur. That doesn’t work in business or anywhere in real life to be honest. I had the “nice guys finish last” resentment.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“Is Austin Racist?” That’s a Good Question I owe a lot of my professional and personal growth to Austin. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Austin is my first love. Is Austin racist?” or just to walk around downtown, which was way more fun than walking around Killeen.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along We’re north of 100 people?—?but

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 9, 2012

Greetings from Austin, TX! Saturday March 10 Dave McClure and I will kick off the official Lean Startup track at the Hilton. 11am: Do you host or run a Lean Startup community event, such as a Lean Startup Meetup? 7pm: I'll be doing a brief Q&A with Jeff Gothelf at the DeLUX Lean UX event at Adaptive Path.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I apologize in advance that it is pretty hard-hitting but I want to be raw and honest with you in order to do my best to help you: We are at the tail-end of RISE week here in beautiful Austin. And, overall, it has been another great week for Austin, with TechStars announcing their launch, which I wrote about in this Lucky7 post.

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2018

Finally, as much as I appreciate keeping things lean, moving fast, and skirting the rules where the costs are low, realize that violating laws around employee compensation and hiring/firing can burn you, badly. Employment laws and taxes are not a place to move fast and break things. Originally published at Silicon Hills Lawyer.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Austin, Texas, is often heralded as a startup leader’s heaven, but Dallas is only a few hundred miles away, and it’s nothing to sneeze at. Cities with engaging, information-packed sites lean more toward being small business-friendly than those with poorly built, spammy-looking websites. In no particular order, here are my top picks: 1.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Heather Appleman (AKA, “Red Velvet”) came to us via Austin, Texas to become a mainstay of our Customer Service team. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. He is a generous and thoughtful person and this manifests in the dozens of conversations he has with our users every day. How cool is that?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 6, 2011

To see why, here’s a trick question: A person P living in Austin, Texas voted in the 2008 American presidential election for either Barak Obama or John McCain. But we also know P lives in Austin, and Austin is a blue pimple in the red sea of the south. If you had to make a bet, who did P vote for?

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