intro to the austin startup scene (brief)
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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, 2015)
Techstars(Mentor,!
2013-present)
@damon
Longhorn Startup (Mentor,!
2011-present)
https://linkedin.com/in/damonc
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)
Entrepreneur Meetup Organizers
Kevin Koym
Damon!Clinkscales
Josh Baer
Jacqueline Hughes
Bijoy Goswami
Tech Ranch!
(Various)Austin Open Coffee Club
Capital Factory!
(Various)
Austin!Startup!Week
Bootstrap Austin (3.0)
Entrepreneur Meetup Organizers
Kimberly Patrick
Ash Maurya
Johan Borge
Monika Ostrowski
Val Luessenhop
Startup!Grind
Austin!Lean!
Startup!Circle
ATX !Entre-!
preneursTeXchange Rice
Alliance
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. A little randomness is O-K.!
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• 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!
• Hold Office hours
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Mentorship Opportunities
• CTAN Office Hours!
• Capital Factory!• Techstars!• Tech Ranch!• Dreamit Ventures!• AVINDE
• Longhorn Startup Lab (Spring)!
• ATI SEAL!• International Accelerator!
• SKU!• Unltd USA
Startup Focused Orgs• 3 Day Startup!• Austin Technology Council (ATC)!• Bootstrap Austin (3.0)!• Entrepreneurs Foundation!• Entrepreneurs’ Organization!• Rice Alliance Austin!• TiE Austin
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
Coworking Spaces
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• Capital Factory!• Link!• Perch!• Opportunity Space!
• WeWork
• Tech Ranch!• Vuka Co-op!• Chicon Collective!• Owen’s Garage!• Orange Coworking
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
Hacker/Dev Meetups• ATX Hardware Startups!• Product Austin!• Women Who Code!• Refresh Austin!• Austin Python!• Austin on Rails!• Austin JavaScript!• … (100+ on meetup.com)
Incubators / Accelerators
• Tech Ranch Austin !• Dreamit Ventures!• Capital Factory!• Longhorn Startup!• Techstars!• UnLtd USA!• The Bunker!
• Austin Technology Incubator!
• Medical Innovation Labs!
• Texas Venture Labs!• SKU!• International
Accelerator
Incubator/Accelerator Directors
Kevin Koym
Steve Welch
Josh Baer
Jason Seats
ZoeSchlag
Tech!Ranch
DreamIt!Ventures
Capital!Factory Techstars Unltd USA
Incubator/Accelerator Directors
Isaac!Barchas
Michael Patton
Rob!Adams
Shari Wynne Ressler!
Phil!Pompa
Austin!Technology!Incubator
!Medical !
Innovation!Labs
Texas!Venture!
LabsSKU International!
Accelerator
Facebook Groups
Austin Startups
Capital Factory News
https://www.facebook.com/groups/austinstartups/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cfstartupnews/
Austin Angel Investorshttps://www.facebook.com/groups/ATXAngelInvestors/
Austin Startup Press• Austin American-Statesman
Lori Hawkins, Omar Gallaga, Kirk Ladendorf!• Austin Business Journal
Christopher Calnan!• The Austin Phoenix
Kelly Holt!• AustinInno
(various)!• Fortune
Stacy Higginbotham!• Silicon Hills News
Laura Lorek, Susan Lahey!• Xconomy Texas
Angelah Shah
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
Investment Firms/Groups
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• Floodgate Fund (SF)!• Disruption Corporation (DC)!• ATAN (Texas angel groups)!• 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)!
• 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 Techhttp://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
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