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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

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Office Hours● Josh Baer and Mellie Price

○ Th 5-6PM at the GDC Lobby

● Sam Lin (TA)

○ MW 1-3PM at the Blackstone Center

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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

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Social Media

Spring 2018

Tweet pictures and quotes from classes

Volunteer position

Email [email protected]

Teaching Assistant

Spring 2018 & Fall 2018

Longhorn Startup Alumni Preferred

20 hours per week paid

http://baer.ly/longhornstartuptaapp

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Austin Startup WeekOctober 9-13, 2017

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How to Start Starting a Company(in school)

Joshua BaerFounder & Executive [email protected]@UTexas.edu

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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?

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Pick a proBlem that I have

personallyI help people quit their jobs and become entrepreneurs

@JoshuaBaer@CapitalFactory@LonghornStartup

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(this is my license plate)

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I got rejected by the web server beta program

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SKYLIST

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SKYLIST

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We deliver email

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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

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Pick a proBlem that I have

personally

fine print

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Pick a proBlem that I have

personally

Pick a problem that I have personally

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

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Find a Co-founer

Find one or more co-founders

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Bootstrap at the beginning

Bootstrap at the beginning

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Use Crowdfunding

Get paid in advance with crowdfunding

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Focus on Mobile

Talk about my idea with everyone

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Focus on mobile first

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Think about Artificial Intelligence

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Build an MVP without any code

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Outsource to people and API’s

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Focus on MobileSurround myself with other entrepreneurs

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

Chinese proverb

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

Chinese proverb

The second best day is TODAY.

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Pick a proBlem that I have

personallyAsk Me Anything

@JoshuaBaer@CapitalFactory@LonghornStartup