Intro to the Austin Startup Scene for Investors
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- 1. by Damon Clinkscales Intro to the ! Austin ! Startup Scene ^ for Investors
- 2. HELLO
- 3. Austin Open Coffee Club! (2010-present) Austin on Rails! (Co-Founder / Leader,! Technology User Group! 2005-present)! Cafe Bedouins āØ (Weekly Hack Night, ! 2008-present) InvestorSheets! (Side project) TechstarsāØ (Mentor,! 2013-present) @damon Longhorn StartupāØ (Mentor,! 2011-present) https://linkedin.com/in/damonc
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- 6. Annual Calendar ā¢ Austin Startup Games (January)! ā¢ SXSW / Startup Village / Accelerator (March)! ā¢ Capital Factory Demo Day / Startup Crawl (March)! ā¢ Dreamit Ventures Demo Day (March)! ā¢ Longhorn Startup Demo Day (April)! ā¢ PeopleFund Innovation Week (May)! ā¢ Techstars Demo Day (June/varies)! ā¢ Innotech Beta Summit (Oct)! ā¢ Capital Factory Demo Day / Startup Crawl (Oct)! ā¢ Austin Startup Week (Oct)
- 9. Entrepreneur Meetup Organizers KevināØ Koym Damon! Clinkscales JoshāØ Baer JacquelineāØ Hughes BijoyāØ Goswami KimberlyāØ Patrick Ash āØ Maurya JohanāØ Borge MonikaāØ Ostrowski Val āØ Luessenhop
- 10. Ways to āPlug Inā ā¢ Sign up for newsletters and follow interesting folks/orgs on Twitter! ā¢ Attend community meetups, coffees, and happy hours! ā¢ Go to hackathons, Startup Weekends, and Demo Days! ā¢ Invite interesting people you meet for a cup of coffee! ! ā¢ Be helpful to others ā make introductions, give feedback, be open to the possibilities! ā¢ Share your experiences as you go on a blog and social networks! ā¢ Interact with / be helpful to others on social media! ā¢ Ofļ¬ce hours 10
- 11. Mentorship Opportunities ā¢CTAN Ofļ¬ce Hours! ā¢Capital Factory! ā¢Techstars! ā¢Tech Ranch! ā¢Dreamit Ventures! ā¢AVINDE ā¢Longhorn Startup Lab (Spring)! ā¢ATI SEAL! ā¢International Accelerator! ā¢SKU! ā¢Unltd USA
- 12. Startup Focused Orgs ā¢3 Day Startup! ā¢Austin Technology Council (ATC)! ā¢Bootstrap Austin 3.0! ā¢Entrepreneurs Foundation! ā¢Entrepreneursā Organization! ā¢Rice Alliance Austin! ā¢TiE Austin
- 13. Happy Hours ā¢Austin Tech Happy Hour (ATHH)! ā¢Big Ass Social Happy Hour (BASHH)! ā¢Tech Ranch Campļ¬re! ā¢Techstars Community Meetups! ā¢Capital Factory Happy Hours (various)! ā¢(NEW) Intro to the Austin Startup āØ Scene Happy Hour
- 14. Entrepreneur Coffees ā¢Austin Open Coffee Club! ā¢Austin TechBreakfast
- 15. Coworking Spaces 15 ā¢Capital Factory! ā¢Link! ā¢Perch! ā¢Opportunity Space! ā¢WeWork ā¢Tech Ranch! ā¢Vuka Co-op! ā¢Chicon Collective! ā¢Owenās Garage! ā¢Orange Coworking
- 16. Investor/Founder Meetups ā¢ Co-Founders Austin (Tech Map)! ā¢ Austin Lean Startup Circle! ā¢ Intro to Angel Investing in Austin (CF)! ā¢ Intro to Fundraising in Austin (CF)! ā¢ Intro to the Austin Startup Scene (CF)! ā¢ Intro to Austin Accelerators (CF)! ā¢ Startup Grind Austin! ā¢ TeXchange
- 17. Hacker/Dev Meetups ā¢ ATX Hardware Startups! ā¢ Product Austin! ā¢ Women Who Code! ā¢ Refresh Austin! ā¢ Austin Python! ā¢ Austin on Rails! ā¢ Austin JavaScript! ā¢ ā¦
- 18. Incubators / Accelerators ā¢ Tech Ranch Austin ! ā¢ Dreamit Ventures! ā¢ Capital Factory! ā¢ Longhorn Startup! ā¢ Techstars! ā¢ UnLtd USA! ā¢ Austin Technology āØ Incubator! ā¢ Medical Innovation āØ Labs! ā¢ Texas Venture Labs! ā¢ SKU! ā¢ International āØ Accelerator
- 19. Incubator/Accelerator Directors KevināØ Koym SteveāØ Welch JoshāØ Baer Jason āØ Seats ZoeāØ Schlag Isaac! Barchas MichaelāØ Patton Rob! Adams Shari āØ Wynne āØ Ressler! Dean! Kakridas
- 21. Facebook Groups Austin Startups Capital Factory News https://www.facebook.com/groups/austinstartups/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfstartupnews/ Austin Angel Investors https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATXAngelInvestors/
- 22. Austin Startup Press ā¢ Austin American-StatesmanāØ Lori Hawkins, Omar Gallaga, Kirk Ladendorf! ā¢ Austin Business JournalāØ Christopher Calnan! ā¢ The Austin PhoenixāØ Kelly Holt! ā¢ FortuneāØ Stacy Higginbotham! ā¢ Silicon Hills NewsāØ Laura Lorek, Susan Lahey! ā¢ Xconomy TexasāØ Angelah Shah
- 24. Investment Firms/Groups ā¢ Austin Ventures! ā¢ Corsa Ventures! ā¢ CTAN (Angels)! ā¢ G-51 Capital! ā¢ Live Oak Ventures āØ Partners! ā¢ S3 Ventures! ā¢ Silverton Partners! ā¢ Access Venture Partners! ā¢ Alara Capital Inside Austin ā¢ ARCH Venture Partners! ā¢ ATX Seed Ventures! ā¢ Covera Ventures! ā¢ Murphree Ventures! ā¢ Next Step Capital Partners! ā¢ Sante Ventures! ā¢ Sevin Rosen Funds! ā¢ TEXO Ventures! ā¢ Trellis Partners
- 25. Investment Firms/Groups ! ā¢ Floodgate Fund (SF)! ā¢ Disruption Corporation (DC)! ā¢ ATAN (Texas Angel Alliance)! ā¢ Golden Seeds (Dallas)! ā¢ McCombs Partners (SA)! ā¢ Trailblazer Capital (Dallas)! ā¢ Sutter Hill Ventures (SF) Outside Austin ā¢ Foundry Group (Boulder)! ā¢ Mark Cuban Companies (Dallas)! ā¢ Mercury Fund (Houston)! ā¢ First Round Capital (NYC)! ā¢ ff Ventures (NYC)! ā¢ 500 Startups (SV/SF)! ā¢ Mohr Davidow Ventures (SF)!
- 28. Thank You Onward to the future!
- 29. ā¢ The Startup Slingshot: How to Raise MoneyāØ http://x.thestartupslingshot.com/how-to-raise-money/ (by @william_griggs)! ā¢ The Startup Slingshot: Austinās Startup Brain TrustāØ http://x.thestartupslingshot.com/austin-startup-brain-trust/ (by @william_griggs)! ā¢ A Smart BearāØ http://blog.asmartbear.com/ (by @asmartbear)! ā¢ We are Austin TechāØ http://www.weareaustintech.com/ (by @weareaustintech)! ā¢ Shockwave InnovationsāØ http://shockwaveinnovations.com/blog/ (by @gordondaugherty)! ā¢ Built in Austin: Top 100 Tech Companies in AustināØ http://www.builtinaustin.com/2015/05/12/top-100-tech-companies-austin (by @BuiltInAustin)! ā¢ Lucky 7āØ http://lucky7.io/ (by @bazaarbrett)āØ Further Resources