Más contenido relacionado La actualidad más candente (20) Similar a Intro to the Austin Startup Scene for Investors (20) Intro to the Austin Startup Scene for Investors3. Austin Open Coffee Club!
(2010-present)
Austin on Rails!
(Co-Founder / Leader,!
Technology User Group!
2005-present)!
Cafe Bedouins
(Weekly Hack Night, !
2008-present)
InvestorSheets!
(Side project)
Techstars
(Mentor,!
2013-present)
@damon
Longhorn Startup
(Mentor,!
2011-present)
https://linkedin.com/in/damonc
6. Annual Calendar
• Austin Startup Games (January)!
• SXSW / Startup Village / Accelerator (March)!
• Capital Factory Demo Day / Startup Crawl (March)!
• Dreamit Ventures Demo Day (March)!
• Longhorn Startup Demo Day (April)!
• PeopleFund Innovation Week (May)!
• Techstars Demo Day (June/varies)!
• Innotech Beta Summit (Oct)!
• Capital Factory Demo Day / Startup Crawl (Oct)!
• Austin Startup Week (Oct)
10. Ways to “Plug In”
• Sign up for newsletters and
follow interesting folks/orgs
on Twitter!
• Attend community meetups,
coffees, and happy hours!
• Go to hackathons, Startup
Weekends, and Demo Days!
• Invite interesting people you
meet for a cup of coffee!
!
• Be helpful to others —
make introductions, give
feedback, be open to the
possibilities!
• Share your experiences
as you go on a blog and
social networks!
• Interact with / be helpful
to others on social media!
• Office hours
10
12. Startup Focused Orgs
•3 Day Startup!
•Austin Technology Council (ATC)!
•Bootstrap Austin 3.0!
•Entrepreneurs Foundation!
•Entrepreneurs’ Organization!
•Rice Alliance Austin!
•TiE Austin
13. Happy Hours
•Austin Tech Happy Hour (ATHH)!
•Big Ass Social Happy Hour (BASHH)!
•Tech Ranch Campfire!
•Techstars Community Meetups!
•Capital Factory Happy Hours (various)!
•(NEW) Intro to the Austin Startup
Scene Happy Hour
16. Investor/Founder Meetups
• Co-Founders Austin (Tech Map)!
• Austin Lean Startup Circle!
• Intro to Angel Investing in Austin (CF)!
• Intro to Fundraising in Austin (CF)!
• Intro to the Austin Startup Scene (CF)!
• Intro to Austin Accelerators (CF)!
• Startup Grind Austin!
• TeXchange
17. Hacker/Dev Meetups
• ATX Hardware Startups!
• Product Austin!
• Women Who Code!
• Refresh Austin!
• Austin Python!
• Austin on Rails!
• Austin JavaScript!
• …
18. Incubators / Accelerators
• Tech Ranch Austin !
• Dreamit Ventures!
• Capital Factory!
• Longhorn Startup!
• Techstars!
• UnLtd USA!
• Austin Technology
Incubator!
• Medical Innovation
Labs!
• Texas Venture Labs!
• SKU!
• International
Accelerator
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
• Austin American-Statesman
Lori Hawkins, Omar Gallaga, Kirk Ladendorf!
• Austin Business Journal
Christopher Calnan!
• The Austin Phoenix
Kelly Holt!
• Fortune
Stacy Higginbotham!
• Silicon Hills News
Laura Lorek, Susan Lahey!
• Xconomy Texas
Angelah Shah
24. Investment Firms/Groups
• Austin Ventures!
• Corsa Ventures!
• CTAN (Angels)!
• G-51 Capital!
• Live Oak Ventures
Partners!
• S3 Ventures!
• Silverton Partners!
• Access Venture Partners!
• Alara Capital
Inside Austin
• ARCH Venture Partners!
• ATX Seed Ventures!
• Covera Ventures!
• Murphree Ventures!
• Next Step Capital Partners!
• Sante Ventures!
• Sevin Rosen Funds!
• TEXO Ventures!
• Trellis Partners
25. Investment Firms/Groups
!
• Floodgate Fund (SF)!
• Disruption Corporation (DC)!
• ATAN (Texas Angel Alliance)!
• Golden Seeds (Dallas)!
• McCombs Partners (SA)!
• Trailblazer Capital (Dallas)!
• Sutter Hill Ventures (SF)
Outside Austin
• Foundry Group (Boulder)!
• Mark Cuban Companies (Dallas)!
• Mercury Fund (Houston)!
• First Round Capital (NYC)!
• ff Ventures (NYC)!
• 500 Startups (SV/SF)!
• Mohr Davidow Ventures (SF)!
29. • The Startup Slingshot: How to Raise Money
http://x.thestartupslingshot.com/how-to-raise-money/ (by @william_griggs)!
• The Startup Slingshot: Austin’s Startup Brain Trust
http://x.thestartupslingshot.com/austin-startup-brain-trust/ (by @william_griggs)!
• A Smart Bear
http://blog.asmartbear.com/ (by @asmartbear)!
• We are Austin Tech
http://www.weareaustintech.com/ (by @weareaustintech)!
• Shockwave Innovations
http://shockwaveinnovations.com/blog/ (by @gordondaugherty)!
• Built in Austin: Top 100 Tech Companies in Austin
http://www.builtinaustin.com/2015/05/12/top-100-tech-companies-austin (by
@BuiltInAustin)!
• Lucky 7
http://lucky7.io/ (by @bazaarbrett)
Further Resources