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Spring Lab● For teams that have built a minimum viable product

● Mentor Speed Dating

● $1,000 grant

● $5,000 credit at Amazon Web Services

● Free table at SXSW ATX Startup Crawl

● 2-3 Local Mentors per Team

● Guest Mentors each week

Office Hours● Josh Baer and Mellie Price

○ Th 5-6PM at the GDC Lobby

● Sam Lin (TA)

○ MW 1-3PM at the Blackstone Center

Open Pitch Pizza● You give a 2-minute pitch (Sam is timing)

● Then I take a crack at it or give you feedback

● Should be targeted at a customer or investor

● Video recorded, streamed & posted to Facebook group

● Line up along the left wall

● 10 students will get to pitch each week

Let Instructors and Mentors give feedback for pitches, if you have

Social Media

Spring 2018

Tweet pictures and quotes from classes

Volunteer position

Email TA@longhornstartup.com

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2018 & Fall 2018

Longhorn Startup Alumni Preferred

20 hours per week paid

http://baer.ly/longhornstartuptaapp

Austin Startup WeekOctober 9-13, 2017

How to Start Starting a Company(in school)

Joshua BaerFounder & Executive DirectorJosh@CapitalFactory.comJoshuaBaer@UTexas.edu

Tell me about you● Business/Management?

● Engineering?

● Computer Science?

● Communications?

● Fine Arts?

● What else?

Parent is an entrepreneur?

Have a startup now?

With customers?

Who pay you?

Want to be an entrepreneur?

Pick a proBlem that I have

personallyI help people quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs

@JoshuaBaer@CapitalFactory@LonghornStartup

(this is my license plate)

I got rejected by the web server beta program

SKYLIST

SKYLIST

We deliver email

How to Start Starting a Company (in school)

1. Become an expert at something you are passionate about

2. Meet someone new every day

3. Work your ass off

Pick a proBlem that I have

personally

fine print

Pick a proBlem that I have

personally

Pick a problem that I have personally

1. male2. kids3. bald4. nearsighted5. lots of email

Find a Co-founer

Find one or more co-founders

Bootstrap at the beginning

Bootstrap at the beginning

Use Crowdfunding

Get paid in advance with crowdfunding

Focus on Mobile

Talk about my idea with everyone

Focus on mobile first

Think about Artificial Intelligence

Build an MVP without any code

Outsource to people and API’s

Focus on MobileSurround myself with other entrepreneurs

The best day to plant a tree was 20 years ago...

Chinese proverb

The best day to plant a tree was 20 years ago...

Chinese proverb

The second best day is TODAY.

Pick a proBlem that I have

personallyAsk Me Anything

@JoshuaBaer@CapitalFactory@LonghornStartup