intro to the austin startup scene

Austin Startup Sceneby @joshuaBaer

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revenue focused

quality of life

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Bijoy Goswami @Bijoy

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Annual Calendar• January

• February

• HTML5 TX

• Startup Games

• March

• SXSW

• Capital Factory Demo Day

• ATX Startup Crawl

• April

• Dreamit Ventures Demo Day

• Techstars Austin Applications Due

• 3 Day Startup

• May

• June

• X-Games

• July

• August

• Lone Star Ruby Conference

• September

• Techstars Demo Day

• October

• Austin City Limits Festival

• ATX Startup Week

• ATX Startup Crawl

• Capital Factory Demo Day

• HackTX

• November

• 3 Day Startup

• Formula 1

• Innotech Beta Summit

• Global Entrepreneurship Week

• DreamIt Austin Applications Due

• December

• Austin Web Bash

Annual Calendar• January

• February

• HTML5 TX

• Startup Games

• March

• SXSW

• Capital Factory Demo Day

• ATX Startup Crawl

• April

• Dreamit Ventures Demo Day

• Techstars Austin Applications Due

• 3 Day Startup

• May

• June

• X-Games

• July

• August

• Lone Star Ruby Conference

• September

• Techstars Demo Day

• October

• Austin City Limits Festival

• ATX Startup Week

• ATX Startup Crawl

• Capital Factory Demo Day

• HackTX

• November

• 3 Day Startup

• Formula 1

• Innotech Beta Summit

• Global Entrepreneurship Week

• DreamIt Austin Applications Due

• December

• Austin Web Bash

F%@KING HOT

Tech Hub Network

History

George Kozmetsky

Bobby Inman

Pike Powers @auspow

MCCMicroelectronics and Computer Consortium

Dell

ionaireDell

virtuous cycle

Angel Investors

Startups

Success Stories

virtuous cycle

Tivoli TippingPengun

SMART Technologies

Trilogy

Up and coming

• Compare Metrics

• Gazzang

• Greenling

• Main Street Hub

• Spredfast

• Sparefoot.com

• Spiceworks

• Tabbed Out

• uShip

• WP Engine

Recent Success

• Black Locus > Home Depot!

• Mass Relevance > Spredfast!

• MapMyFitness > Under Armor!

• Dachis Group > Spriklr

Organizers

• Damon Clinkscales

• Jacqueline Hughes

• Bijoy Goswami

• Alex Jones

• Garann Means

• Pat Ramsey

• Lani Rosales

• Travis Swicegood

• UT - Bob Metcalfe

• UT - Taylor Barnett

• UT - Nick Spiller

Happy Hours

• Tech Happy Hour

• Big Ass Social Happy Hour (BASHH)

• Capital Factory Happy Hours

Coffee Shops

• Cafe Medici

• Houndstooth

• Bennu

• Halcyon

• Lola Savannah

• Jo’s on Second

!

Bars too...

• CU29

• Buffalo Billiards

• The Gingerman

• The W Bar

Coworking

• Capital Factory

• Conjunctured

• Golab

• Link Coworking

• Opportunity Space

• Tech Ranch

• Vuka

Hacking

• Cafe Bedouins

• HackTX

• 3 Day Startup

• Startup Weekend

• Lean Startup Machine

• AngelHack

• Hack4TX

• Civic Hack Night

• Makersquare

Hardware

• ATX Hackerspace atxhackerspace.com

• Technology Kitchen technologykitchen.com

• Techshop Austin techshop.ws

Dev SHops

• Chaotic Moon chaoticmoon.com

• Electrik Company electrik.co

• Jackrabbit Mobile jackrabbitmobile.com

• Mutual Mobile mutualmobile.com

• Thinktiv thinktiv.com

Pitch Events

• Capital Factory Demo Day (2x)

• Incubation Station Demo Day

• DreamIt Ventures Demo Day

• TechStars Demo Day

• ATI Clean Tech & Wireless Forums

• RISE Fast Pitch

• Innotech Beta Summit

• Open Angel Network

Meetups• Austin on Rails

• AUSOME

• Austin.rb

• All Girl Hack Night

• Co-Founder Meetup

• Founder Dating

• Google Glass

• Hardware Hackers

• Lean Startup Circle

• JavaScript

• MongoDB

• Node.js

• Open Coffee

• Python

• Refresh Austin

• Web Architecture

• Wolfram Alpha Language

• Wordpress

Blogs• Bryan Menell - AustinStartup

austinstartup.com

• Joshua Baer - Austinpreneuraustinpreneur.com

• Jason Cohen - ASmartBear asmartbear.com

• Brett Hurt - Lucky7 lucky7.io

• Gordon Daugherty - Shockwaveshockwaveinnovations.com

• Kip McClanahan - ReOverthinkingreoverthinking.com

FACEBOOK• Austin Startups

http://facebook.com/groups/austinstartups

• Austin Digital Jobshttp://facebook.com/groups/austindigitaljobs

• Capital Factory Jobs http://facebook.com/groups/cfstartupjobs

• Capital Factory News http://facebook.com/groups/cfstartupnews

• Longhorn Startuphttp://facebook.com/groups/longhornstartup

Incubators

• Austin Technology Incubator

• Capital Factory

• DreamIt Ventures

• Incubation Station

• Longhorn Startup

• Techstars

• Texas Medical Accelerator

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SQUARE FEET OF STARTUPS46,000

LOCATED IN AUSTIN’S DOWNTOWN STARTUP DISTRICT

views of downtown austin and the texas capitol360º

programmers and entrepreneurs

600 Meetups and Hackathons

25,000

classroom teaching skills startups need

VIDEO STREAMING RECORDING A DOZEN HOURS PER WEEK

Not just Software makers and robots welcome

Happy hours bringing people together

charity events instilling corporate culture

phones and tablets available in the

Device Lab

Google glass available in the

Device Lab

experienced Mentors available for

office hours

SXSW and startup week

demo dayS

packed room full of

INVESTORS

sxswStartup Village

twice a year during SXSW and startup week

startup crawl

DENSITY DRAWS IN EVERYONE THAT STARTUPS WANT TO MEET

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150 employees - $26 million funding insight Partners

wordpress hosting Platform for business

100 employees - $18 million funding Northbridge

Angel Investors (angellist)

• Joshua Baer!

• Joel Trammell!

• Ross Buhrdorf!

• Rick Timmins!

• Andrew Busey!

• John Hime

Angel investors

• Capital Factory Fund Mellie Price, Andrew Busey

• CTAN Brent Elya, Rick Timmins !

• Individual Angels Joshua Baer, Ross Buhrdorf, Andrew Busey, Brett Hurt, Rony Kahan, Joe Liemandt, Tom Meredith, Joel Trammell

venture capital

• Austin Ventures John Thornton, Chris Pacitti, Tom Ball, Mike Dodd, Pat Noonan, Dai Truong

• Silverton Partners Kip McClanahan, Morgan Flager

• Live Oak Venture Partners Venu Shamapant

• Mercury Fund Aziz Gilani, Blair Garrou

• S3 Ventures (health) Rajiv Bala

• G-51 Capital Rudy Garza

venture capital• 500 Startups Dave McClure

• Disruption Paul Singh

• E-merge Patrice De Cafmeyer, Laurent Drion

• ff Ventures John Frankel

• First Round Josh Kopelman

• FLOODGATE Mike Maples, Jr.

• Mohr Davidow Bryan Stolle

• Sutter Hill Ventures Sam Pullara

Press

• Statesman Lori Hawkins, Kirk Ladendorf, Omar Gallaga

• Austin Business Journal Christopher Calnan

• CNN Josh Rubin

• GigaOm Stacey Higginbotham

• Silicon Hills News Laura Lorek, Susan Lahey

• Techzette

• The Phoenix

• Techcrunch Josh Dilworth

Lawyers

• KHGR Evan Kastner

• Jones-Spross Brian Spross

• Wilson Sonsini (WSGR) Brian Beard & Paul Tobias

• Andrews-Kurth Matt Lyons

• DLA Piper

• Sprinkle Law Steve Sprinkle (IP)

Associations• Austin Chamber Michele Skelding

• Austin Technology Council Julie Huls

• Brazos Tech District

• Downtown Alliance

• Entrepreneur’s Foundation Eugene Sepulveda

• Rice Alliance Robert McKee

• Texchange

• Young Entrepreur’s Organization

• Young President’s Organization

• Young Men’s / Young Women’s Business League

Banks

• Chase Jonathan Lee, chase.com

• Silicon Valley Bank Jonathan Miller

• Square 1 Bank

• Comerica

Real Estate

• Hill Partners

• Aleshire Company Jon Aleshire

• Aquilla Jay Lamy

• Endeavor

• CBRE

University of Texas

longhornstartup.com

Bob Metcalfe @BoBmetcalfe

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