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WATCH THE VIDEO AT http://youtu.be/aU9_a-MyeDg Joshua Baer from Capital Factory gives a comprehensive overview of the Austin Startup Scene including it's unique elements, some history, the up and coming stars, the organizers, happy hours, meetups, coffee shops, coworking spots, incubators, university resources, venture capital and more. Welcome to Austin! Here are the things you need to know about the Austin entrepreneurial and tech community. Most important is that you sign up by email for the Austin Startup Digest, a weekly email with all of the events going on in the Austin entrepreneurship scene. SIGN UP FOR EMAIL LISTS Weekly Startup Calendar http://startupdigest.com/austin Weekly Video Interview http://weareaustintech.com/ WATCH THIS VIDEO Intro to the Austin Startup Scene (1 hour) http://youtu.be/aU9_a-MyeDg ATTEND THE NEXT MEETUP Intro to the Austin Startup Scene Meetup http://bit.ly/welcome2austin FOLLOW ON TWITTER JOIN FACEBOOK GROUPS READ BLOGS COWORKING COFFEE SHOPS DOWNTOWN COFFEE SHOPS IN THE BURBS HAPPY HOURS ENTREPRENEUR MEETUPS TECHNICAL MEETUPS HACKING MEETUPS CLASSES EVENTS INCUBATORS VENTURE CAPITAL DEV SHOPS LEGAL PRESS CONTACTS PUBLIC RELATIONS REAL ESTATE ACCOUNTS & TAXES RECRUITING EVENT PLANNING ASSOCIATIONS STARTUPS TO WATCH ATX EQUATION PHILANTHROPY AUSTIN FUN
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Austin Startup Sceneby @joshuaBaer
people move here every day150
top of every list
Bootstrap first
revenue focused
quality of life
social capital
rising tide
http://baer.ly/austinscene
http://baer.ly/austinscene
ATXequation.com
Bijoy Goswami @Bijoy
http://startupdigest.com/austin
http://startupdigest.com/austin
http://startupdigest.com/austin
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
capital factoryCapital Factory is the entrepreneurial center of gravity in Austin, Texas. 25,000 entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night for meetups, classes and coworking. !
Apply to join the community and work at the best office in Austin. Surround yourself with the talent you need to build a team and angel investors who will give you the chance to pursue your dream. !
Quit your job and become an entrepreneur.
SQUARE FEET OF STARTUPS46,000
LOCATED IN AUSTIN’S DOWNTOWN STARTUP DISTRICT
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
Revolutionizing the $4 Billion self storage industry
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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