Intro to the Dallas Startup Community

Jason Illian Founder and CEO of Bookshout @jasonillian jason@bookshout.com

About me Founder and CEO of Bookshout Former CEO of Big Jump Media (GodTube.com) Published author and speaker Raised over $40M for new business ventures Advisor to The DEC and Chair of Startup Texas Go Frogs

Entrepreneur Manifesto Think BIG, start SMALL. Work with PASSION. Pursue the

IMPOSSIBLE, especially when no one else does. Make MEANING, not just money. FAIL at an exceptionally high

level. Do something NEW everyday. Build a LEGACY. Help others chase their DREAMS. GIVE, when others take;

LEAP, when other hesitate; and don't call it work if it is FUN. PLAY with each other, your assumptions, and the

company. Run 100 mph with your hair on FIRE and when you come to the edge--jump and build your WINGS on the

way down. REPEAT.

Agenda Why Dallas Entrepreneurial hub Notable Dallas Startups Dallas Corporations Notable Startup Exits (M&A and IPO) Raising Capital Accelerators, Incubators, Coworking Events and Programs Media Talent Q&A

Why Dallas will never be Silicon Valley *and why that’s a good thing

North Texas as an Entrepreneurial Hub

Notable Dallas StartupsKoupon Media ShopSavvy Rise Need Foot Cardigan Mizzen and Main The Citizenry Dialexa Firehost Bookshout! Hiplogic View Market Brain Space Image Vision Traxo AllPlayers.com Mutual Mind Glass Media Joinem Reward Style OrderMyGear

Notable CorporationsTexas Instruments American Airlines Sabre Southwest Airlines Top Golf Tenet Healthcare Dr Pepper Snapple Group Match.com Pier 1

Microsoft Intuit Ericsson FedEx Office Mary Kay PepsiCo (Frito-Lay) Fossil Haggar Clothing AT&T

Notable Dallas ExitsBroadcast.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)

The Rise of Coworking

Common Desk The DEC Fort Work Nod Coworking Addison Treehouse IdeaWorks Fort Worth Dallas Makerspace The Grove WELD Kaleidoscope for Her The Garage Denton TechMill Oak Cliff Hive The Lab

Early stage Accelerators and Incubators

Tech Wildcatters Health Wildcatters Collide Village RevTech Ventures The Dallas Entrepreneur Center Addison TreeHouse United Way Groundfloor NTEC Tech Fort Worth The Garage The WERX McKinney

Raising Capital$ 3 2 3 M I L L I O NInvested across 32 Companies in 2014

D A L L A S R A N K E D 1 8 T HBest city for VC funding

A C T I V E A N G E L STexas accounted for 12% of all deals in Q2

Education and Programs

Startup Weekend Startup Next Dallas Startup Week DEC Whiteboard Sessions CoFoundersLab Dallas New Tech Big D Open Coffee Club Denton Tech Mill 1 Million Cups Dallas and Fort Worth LaunchDFW Happy Hour RealTech House of Genius The Pulse DEC Ambassador Program The Grove Community Animator

Universities

Media outlets

LaunchDFW Dallas Business Journal - Tech Flash Dallas Morning News - Beat Biz D CEO Tech Cocktail Dallas Edition KERA WFAADallas Observer Culture Map Geekbeat.tv

Infographic - thedec.co/scene 2014 trends - soe2014.thedec.co Local media - launchdfw.com Weekly digest - startupdigest.com Faces of Dallas - thefacesofdallas.com Dallas Regional Chamber - drcinteractive.com/startups

References

Q&A