crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. Silicon Valley has dominated the U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting. Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

By creating a network of fractures in hot rock formations, water can be injected to extract heat and generate steam, which drives turbines to produce electricity. Fervo Energy, a Houston-based startup, has taken a significant leap forward in realizing the potential of enhanced geothermal systems.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Greg Abbott expects the rebuilding of Houston to cost up to $180 billion. You and your community can convene to support in whichever area works best. For example, while hurricane victims get the supplies they need to rebuild their lives, you can generate a fanbase and develop a positive image of your company.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2018

In October we announced our $100,000 Dallas Investment Challenge and then in November the $100,000 Houston Investment Challenge. We provide these startups with coworking space, hosting credits, investor relations, and access to a mentor network of the top entrepreneurs and angel investors in Texas.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Small cells and 5G wireless networks, with speeds up to 100 times faster than current networks, will revolutionize what is possible in the wireless space. Yet as providers announce that Texas cities like Dallas, Houston, and Waco will be receiving 5G in the near future, Austin is left on the outside looking in.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 4, 2017

Learning new skills, technologies, communication styles, networking tactics, sales strategies, and other things is crucial to your success in a business. Being an entrepreneur also means that I get to meet lots of new and wonderful people, all while developing new products. Thanks to AJ Saleem, Suprex Tutors Houston . #18-

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Austin?—?culminating You should come along for the ride if you are interested in investing more in Texas technology and disruptive commerce companies and want to develop relationships with local investors who can be your deal flow. Retail CPG, Financial Tech, Real Estate Tech June 5 in Houston ?—?Energy,

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2017

Trey Bowles from The Dallas Entrepreneurship Center (The DEC), Joshua Baer from Capital Factory, JR Reale from Station Houston, and Preston James from DivInc together in Kansas City, MO for the Kauffman Foundation Eship Summit. Many other communities are starting from nothing. We have first class problems.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Long is no stranger to high-intensity occupations with a history in the legal community. In this case, two young professionals feeling distinctly un-professional about drinking Pedialyte at their desks created something better to meet their needs after networking events and heavy workouts. “I Where can Rally be found now?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

By connecting Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas S tartup Megatropolis we can unlock billions of dollars in capital and unleash thousands of diverse entrepreneurs. The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2017

In October we announced our $100,000 Dallas Investment Challenge and then in November the $100,000 Houston Investment Challenge. Geekdom has been leading the charge to energize the San Antonio tech and startup scene since the very beginning and is probably the largest community of entrepreneurs in Texas.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Austin’s opportunity I’m excited to come to Austin next week because I’ve seen in the community everything we need to solve the problems we have. Austin can be a flashpoint for the problems in our country’s economy — it can also be a lab to develop solutions. Second, we need to innovate as much in HOW we invest as WHAT we invest in.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb describes “Sell More Faster” as the indispensable guide for entrepreneurs seeking product-market fit, building their sales team, developing a growth strategy and chasing accelerated, repeatable selling success. “I 6: Houston, TX?—? ABOUT TECHSTARS: The Techstars Worldwide Network helps entrepreneurs succeed.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Yet amid this grim news, we also can’t underestimate the triumph of modern biology over a novel disease variant — enabling companies such as Moderna to develop a vaccine formulation in two days without physical access to live cultures, faster than even the virus itself traveled around the world. The same applies to cities.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Heterogeneous architectures apply exciting advances in technologies such as GPUs (graphics cards originally invented for gaming and video), solid state memory, high network bandwidth and many other cloud components to break barriers and deliver meaningful progress. Our Team is Stellar BlazingDB was founded out of necessity.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

You can be the sales guy or gal with all the tools you need at your fingertips ­ email, phone, social networks, etc. Others may require a lot of time and significant development efforts, which raises the CAC. Similarly, designing an iOS-­friendly app cost us a lot of developers’ hours, but hasn’t gotten traction so far.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The last 2 years have seen exciting developments within our community, but we humbly admit that we’ve also learned some hard lessons. Capital Factory has been fortunate to have some incredible leaders step up to help make our community more welcoming and more diverse. Not all Texas cities have the same demographics.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The last 2 years have seen exciting developments within our community, but we humbly admit that we’ve also learned some hard lessons. Capital Factory has been fortunate to have some incredible leaders step up to help make our community more welcoming and more diverse. Not all Texas cities have the same demographics.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

My partners at Greylock and I have invested in a number of young founding CEOs who match this pattern and are doing a fantastic job leading their companies through hypergrowth, such as Brian Chesky of AirBnB and Drew Houston of Dropbox. I enjoy helping the team on strategy, corporate and business development, and product vision.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

With ~1,500 startups, the Capital Factory community will be all over SXSW! Despite regularly being named the “Best City to Live” and attracting 150+ new residents every day, Austin’s tech community lags its coastal peers in both investment dollars and successful exits. All of Austin is getting ready for SXSW- and that means us too!

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. That experience is consistent with research conducted by Aziz Gilani, a director at Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury. But that follow-on money has come primarily from local angels and high-net-worth individuals in our network. The Missing Piece.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019 2018 was an incredible year for the Capital Factory community that introduced new roles and team members, expanded to multiple locations, and partnered with the US Army. Abba developed and executed the MobilityX program with Mercedes. I’m better because of you.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. That experience is consistent with research conducted by Aziz Gilani, a director at Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury. But that follow-on money has come primarily from local angels and high-net-worth individuals in our network. The Missing Piece.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Because relationship networks and personal contacts still matter. That experience is consistent with research conducted by Aziz Gilani, a director at Houston venture capital firm DFJ Mercury. But that follow-on money has come primarily from local angels and high-net-worth individuals in our network.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

I’m the Community Manager for Bplans.com. During that time, I developed some pretty severe anxiety, and depression, and insomnia. Ann: With your existing network and opportunities that you are having back in your head commit them to writing. Musician who is … He was in Whitney Houston’s first music video.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., The “Big Lie” of a stolen election was perpetrated by politicians from places like Texas and Florida—the kinds of places New Yorkers were escaping to that had promised better alternatives to our local tech community. we have a problem.” Come to Miami!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She is a member of the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, a Fortune Most Powerful Women attendee, and has received numerous accolades, including being chosen as a Sam Walton Emerging Entrepreneur and American Express. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business? First Principles.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Basically what I’m trying to do is just paint the picture of what you you need to be successful in such a challenging industry and hopefully by recording these lessons and sharing them with other people we can create this community of support and everyone can learn together. We’ve got another Texas city, Houston, number seven.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2019

MassChallenge , a global network of zero-equity startup accelerators, today announced the top 14 finalist startups from its third MassChallenge Texas accelerator and second Austin-based program. GotSpot, Inc : (Houston, Texas): GotSpot is short-term space for your business. 17 awards ceremony (AUSTIN, Texas?—?Sept.

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