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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Director of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Texas at Austin, Alex Winkelman Zeplain, Founder of Hello My Tribe, and Autumn Manning , CEO of YouEarnedIt — will open up about their struggles, pressures, and leadership battles to share how they’ve coped and built a community. You don’t need rockstar engineers.

Austin 48
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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

I did, which is why I petitioned to take user experience design courses during my business school days at The University of Texas and concurrently enrolled in a part-time coding bootcamp during my final semester. I learned that software engineers?—?or or developers?—?are are just as much artists as they are scientists.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Photo Credit: Steven Randall. Photo Credit: Grant Gordon.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.