I N T R O T O T H E D A L L A S S T A R T U P

C O M M U N I T YP R E S E N T E D B Y : A L E X A N D E R M U S E , T H E H A U L C O M P A N Y

@amuse

Alexander Muse

Co-Founder at HAUL

Office: 214.550.2003

Mobile: 214.558.1079

!Website: http://www.haulstudios.com

Personal blog: http://startupmuse.com

LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/amuse

Agenda

• Entrepreneurial hub?

• Growth of the Startup Scene

• Notable Dallas Startups

• Notable Startup Exits (M&A and IPO)

• VC’s, angels and media

• Accelerators, Incubators, Coworking

• Networking Events, Meetups, Conferences

• Where to Find Talent

• Other ways to get involved

• Q&A

W H Y D A L L A S

Pros and Cons

• Concentration of Fortune 500 companies

• Fourth largest metro area in the US

• Third largest in self-employment

• 19,000 new companies each year

• Ranked third for startup founders (Kaufmann Foundation)

• More tech jobs than Austin & Houston combined

• Low cost of living/doing business

• Two major Airports

PROs• Dearth of experienced VCs

• VCs have very little committed capital

• Very little early stage capital

• Few high growth entrepreneur angels

• Few startup focused service providers

• Leveraged Workforce

• Inexeperienced Startup Workforce

• Massive Geography (9.286mi vs. 46.9mi)

CONs

Startup Growth in Dallas !(in 5 minutes)

• startupmuse.com

• Barcamp/PitchCamp

• Startup Happy Hour

• Startup Weekend

• CoHabitat/TechWildcatters

• LOTS of startups

Notable Startups• Koupon Media

• ShopSavvy

• Genband

• Firehost

• Epic Playground

• Bookshout!

• Connectcloud

• Hiplogic

• HAUL

• Pure Discovery

• Image Vision

• Traxo

• Architel

• Modx

• AllPlayers.com

• Mutual Mind

• ZenCash

• OrderMyGear

• Mobility Ventures

• ID90 Technologies

• Nimbix

• NetSocket

• Mobility Ventures

• Vivify Health

• Quiqq

• Who@

• Sparxlife

Notable Dallas Exits• Broadcast.com (Yahoo for $5B, 2001)

• EDS (HP for $13.9B, 2008)

• Gamestop (IPO)

• Gearbox Software (IPO)

• Hotels.com (IPO)

• Id Software (ZeniMax for $105M, 2009)

• ITKO (CA Technologies for $330M)

• Metasolv (Oracle for $219M, 2006)

• New Toy (Zynga for $53M, 2011)

• Perot Systems (Dell for $3.9B, 2009)

• Quickoffice (Google, 2012)

• Softlayer (IBM for $2B, 2013)

• Texas Instruments (IPO)

• Woot.com (Amazon for $110M, 2010)

• Bottle Rocket (WPP, 2013)

• MetroPCS (T-Mobile, 2013)

VC• Trailblazer Capital

• Silver Creek Ventures

• Dallas Venture Partners

• Remeditex (Pharma/Life Sciences)

• Cypress Growth Capital

• Green Park and Golf Ventures

• Naya Ventures

• Pangea’s Edge Holdings, Ltd.

• Aristos Ventures

• Mark Cuban Companies

• New MainStream Capital

Dead Pool

• Covera Ventures

• Sevin Rosen

• HO2

• Orix Fund

Angels• Dallas Angel Network

• Dallas Ventures Angel Network

• Dallas Women’s Venture Fund

• North Texas Angel Network

• Lone Star Angels

• Cowtown Angels

• Golden Seeds - Dallas

• Southwest Venture Forum

• Texas Mezzanine Fund

• Tyler Texas Angel Network

• Dallas Venture Partners

• Baylor Angel Network

• Texas Entrepreneur Network

Media Publications• Dallas Morning News

• Dallas Business Journal

• D Magazine (inc. D CEO & D Money)

• KERA

• WFAA

• LaunchDFW

• Dallas Observer

• Pegasus News

• Culture Map

• Dallas Startup Digest

• Texas BioTech News

• Geekbeat.tv

Accelerators• Tech Wildcatters

• Forbes top 10 Accelerator in 2011 and 2012

• 37 companies including: Key Ring, Proxomo, Koupon Media

• Health Wildcatters

• Raised $1M from 30 investors

• VentureSpur

• Dual classes in Dallas and OKC

• Accelerate NFC

• Accelerated Ventures Program (Baylor)

Incubators• The Dallas Entrepreneur Center (Dallas)

• NTEC (Frisco)

• Collide Center (McKinney)

• Tech Fort Worth (Fort Worth)

• Venture Development Center (UTD)

• United Way’s The GroundFloor (Dallas)

• BioPipeline at BioCenter, UT Southwestern

• BioTech Manufacturing Center of Texas

Coworking• Common Desk (Dallas - Deep Ellum)

• WELD (Dallas - Design District)

• The Grove (Dallas - West End)

• SpryRocket (Dallas - Greenville)

• The Foundry Group (Dallas-Mockingbird)

• XL Lounge (Dallas - Mockingbird)

• Oak Cliff Hive (Dallas - Oak Cliff)

• Dallas Fort Work (North Dallas)

• Dallas Makerspace (North Dallas)

• The Garage (Dallas-Deep Ellum)

• Connective Hub (Addison)

• CoLab (Fort Worth)

• The Lab (Plano)

• The Backlot (Fort Worth)

Meetups For Creatives AIGA DFW Big Design Meetups Creatives in Dallas Dallas User Experience Group Dribbble Meetup Refresh Dallas WELD Creative Labs DFW Usability Professionals Association !For Developers Dallas Android Developers Group Dallas IGDA Dallas.JS Dal Mob Dallas Makerspace Dallas Ruby Brigade DevOps Live DFW Big Data DFW Pythoneers DFW Scrum Drupal Developer Group

iPhone Developers Group North Dallas Cloud Computing Group Red Oak Hackerspace HackerNest DFW HTML5 User Group !For Entrepreneurs 1 Million Cups Dallas and Fort Worth Big D Open Coffee Club BioCenter Dallas CEO Netweavers CoFounders Lab Dallas Entrepreneurs Network Dallas New Tech Dallas Startup Weekend Dallas Startup Happy Hour DigitalDUMBO Dallas EWomen Network Entrepreneurs Organization (EO) Health 2.0 Health Industry Council House of Genius

LaunchDFW Metroplex Technology Business Council Mobile Monday Dallas NEXT Dallas (Google for Entrepreneurs) SCORE Dallas Startup Grind Dallas Tech Cocktail Dallas Texchange Dallas TiE Dallas Untyed VentureSpur Happy Hours !For Marketers 4A’s Dallas Council Dallas Internet Marketing and SEO DFW AMA DFW IMA DFW Wordpress Meetup Social Media Club of Dallas !Events Calendars LaunchDFW Startup Digest Dallas

Conferences!• Big Design Conference

• Circles Conference

• Emerging Tech Conference

• Big Android BBQ

• Front Porch (Front End) Web Developers

• AIGA Big Design Week

• Results Oriented Web

• Dallas Digital Summit

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Where to find talent• Campus2Careers

• Startup events, meetups

• LaunchDFW job board

• University Job Boards

• CoFounders Lab

• AngelList

Other ways to get involved• Join the conversation online - comment

on articles, tweet, spread the word that you’re a part of the audience.

• Volunteer your time at meetups, events, startup weekend, mentor, host open office hours

• Contribute your own stories or event recaps on your own blog or write for LaunchDFW

• Give before you get, and when you get, pay it forward.

Q & A