Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

Startups in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio shouldn’t need to move to Austin to scale. In 2018, we launched in Dallas with the help of The DEC, the Dallas Regional Chamber, UT Dallas, Accenture, Deloitte, Varidesk and many other partners. Our word of the year was “Dallas”. It’s working?—?40

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the Dallas keynote , Dave Copps, CEO of Worlds was lamenting how things are different than a few years ago. Capital Factory holds events for all of Texas, not just Austin or Houston or Dallas, and attracts people from around the country and around the world. We amplified this in last month’s sessions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. Ben previously co-founded Simply Interactive, Chaotic Moon, and Conversable leading all of them to successful exits. STOIKY is his callsign.

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2020

This first all-virtual AFWERX event included over 2,000 online attendees, 88 virtual pitches, 60 online Air Force and Space Force judges, and 599 government contracts worth $625 million in what Dr. Will Roper called “the largest small biz transaction in gov’t history!” Not all of the “unprecedented” events were good.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2017

Both Dallas and San Antonio are rolling out their own initiatives. Dallas launched its smart city living lab in March “with the installation of an interactive kiosk outside the Dallas Entrepreneur Center at 311 N. But there is a conversation developing at City Hall about smart kiosks. In short, it’s against the law.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Crave Retail (Austin, TX) Matthew Cyr, CEO Crave is a SaaS platform purpose-built to enhance the fitting rooms of premium enterprise retailers with modern digital experiences and analytics to optimize conversion opportunities. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Two robot buses full of dozens of venture capitalists and family office investors from around the world traveled for three days around the great state of Texas from Dallas to Houston to Austin. Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2019

This unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sector brings entrepreneurs and government innovators shoulder-to-shoulder in a coworking environment where they can learn from each other and have a kind of serendipity that can’t happen behind high security.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Several anecdotes and insights were shared by the panelists for the hour-long conversation (little known facts: Huston-Tillotson was founded here years before UT-Austin and Austin’s Public Library System is led by a black man), and then things really heated up in the packed room when anonymous audience questions were introduced.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 15, 2018

The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2017

The internet of things (IoT) is at the center of this evolution and at a recent Tech Titans event in Dallas, corporate leaders from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ericsson, Texas Instruments, Samsung, AT&T, Verizon, Nokia and more gathered to talk about the latest developments, biggest obstacles and their predictions for the future.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

Notley supports pretty much every other social entrepreneurship initiative there is in Austin and they are now expanding their reach to cities like Atlanta, Dallas and Denver. Capital Factory is a certified B Corp and we look forward to helping spread the word about this new form of corporate governance to other Austin companies.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2018

There are many ways to get plugged into Capital Factory, here are just a few: Sign up for our Austin Tech Live Newsletter or Dallas Tech Live Newsletter Follow @CFWoman & @CFDiversity on Twitter Host your next event at Capital Factory Apply to our Accelerator Become a mentor or coworking member Up next at Capital Factory!

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

5: Dallas, TX?—? City governments connect with local entrepreneurs, corporations, and community leaders to grow and sustain a vibrant startup economy. See below for Schwartzfarb’s speaking schedule, and see here for more information and to register for specific dates: Sept. 4: “Sell More Faster” Launch Party?—?Austin, Austin, TX?—?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Carrie: Yeah that’s a daily conversation with myself thank you for that. John: Awesome Carrie thanks so much for joining us today and hopefully I’ll run into you in Dallas or you in Kansas City or somewhere out there on the road. Carrie: Okay go ahead. John: And this is again just from knowing you. Carrie: Soon!

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

I’ll add on one more – are there regional members of David’s team in at least the major markets like Dallas/Fort Worth? A third of our work life goes to paying for government services, and yet few have scratched the innovation possibilities in Government, so what might be the Google strategy for their Government footprint?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. Bryan joins us full time January 1 after serving in a part-time capacity for the past 6 months and is our senior leader in Dallas. However, Bryan isn’t just focused on Dallas?—?in

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Conversely, plenty of folks who write code in more “acceptable” languages/platforms are lazy bastards who have no concept of the underlying complexities of their chosen tools. Absolutely NOTHING forces you to use Microsoft’s prefab libraries, if you don’t want to. March 26, 2011 at 11:53 pm. “Why?”

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 28, 2017

As part of the Texas Startup Manifesto , we are expanding the mentor network from Austin to all of Texas, starting with our partners The DEC in Dallas, Geekdom in San Antonio and other partners in Houston. You will lead and grow a team across Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio who are passionate about entrepreneurs and mentorship.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. As the third U.S.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The reason I wanted to have him on was that we have been having this conversation in Washington about how do you reform the healthcare system? It is a very narrow conversation. It’s a fun interesting conversation. You couldn’t increase wages, and that was mandated by the government. I like healthcare a lot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2017

In an OP-ED this week, in the Dallas Morning News, Michael E. Smith’s loyalist climate change deniers and senior scientists in the US Government. The EPA, Climate Change and our Economy 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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This conversation was recorded before the announcement of Ron's new position in the incoming Biden administration. In our conversation, I ask Ron point blank if the outcome we are living through was inevitable, or could we have avoided this catastrophe? Here's my conversation with Ron Klain. You're not going to like his answer.

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