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Intro to Austin Accelerators
- 1. Intro to Austin Accelerators by @joshuaBaer
- 2. people move here every day150
- 3. top of every list
- 7. Accelerators in Austin? • Austin Technology Incubator (UT affiliated) @ATI_UT • Bunker (veterans) • Capital Factory (tech) @CapitalFactory @JoshuaBaer • International Accelerator • Longhorn Startup Lab (UT Austin students) @LonghornStartup • SKU (consumer packaged goods) @IncuStation • SXSW Accelerator • Techstars (tech) @Techstars @Seats • Medical Innovation Labs (medical devices) • Unltd USA (social good) @UnLtdUSA
- 8. entrepreneur training • ATI SEAL • Rice Alliance Entrepreneur’s Workshop • Tech Ranch VentureForth • General Assembly • IronYard • MakerSquare
- 9. Accelerator components All programs • Funding ($20,000 - $200,000) • Mentor Network • Formal Training • Server Hosting Credits • Demo Day Some more than others • Office Space • Recruiting Assistance • Customer Introductions • Investor Introductions • Press Opportunities • Alumni Network
- 10. Austin Startups • Sparefoot (Capital Factory / Silverton / Insight VP) • Trendkite (DreamIt / Capital Factory / Silverton) • Cratejoy (Capital Factory / Y Combinator / Charles River) • Pristine (Capital Factory / S3 Ventures) • Plum (Techstars / Capital Factory) • Patient.io (Techstars / Mercury Fund) • PivotFreight (Techstars / Capital Factory / Silverton)
- 11. When Can I apply? • Austin Technology Incubator - anytime • Capital Factory - anytime • SKU - spring • Innovation Plus - ? • International Accelerator - anytime • Longhorn Startup Lab - fall and spring • Techstars - January • Texas Medical Accelerator - anytime • Unltd USA - January
- 12. capital factory Austin’s Center of Gravity for Entrepreneurs Last year 32,000 entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gathered day and night for meetups, classes and coworking. Entrepreneurs come to Capital Factory to Hone skills meetups and hackathons Find a co-founder Build a Minimum Viable Product Meet angel investors and VCs Find lighthouse customers Keep costs low Grow your team
- 15. 46,000 Square Feet full of Entrepreneurs
- 16. programmers and entrepreneurs 700Meetups and Hackathons 32,000
- 17. classroom teaching skills startups need
- 18. Some of the meetups
- 19. THe Blueprint • Community Center • Coworking pace • Mentoring • Fund VIDEO STREAMING Follow @Austintechlive
- 21. As your company starts to grow reserve Dedicated Desks
- 22. Private offices Sound proof and secure
- 23. Private offices teams from 2-10 people
- 24. phones and tablets available in the Device Lab
- 25. Google glass available in the Device Lab
- 26. DEVICE Lab 3D Printers and more
- 27. DEVICE Lab 3D Printers and more
- 28. Find investors, introductions & advice at office hours
- 29. Peer Roundtables Learn from other entrepreneurs
- 30. SXSW and startup week demo dayS
- 32. Happy hours bringing people together
- 33. DENSITY DRAWS IN EVERYONE THAT STARTUPS WANT TO MEET
- 34. VIP Guests • Bram Cohen, founder of BitTorrent • Michael Dell, founder of Dell • Richard Garriott, founder of Ultima Online • Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet • Alexis Ohanian, founder of Reddit • Peter Thiel, founder of Paypal • Slash, Guns & Roses • Stephen Wolfram, founder of Mathematica
- 35. Accelerator • Introductions to angel investors, mentors, customers, strategic partners, employees • First priority on offices and desks at Capital Factory • Access to $150,000+ in matching funds from Capital Factory, Silverton, FLOODGATE and our AngelList Syndicate
- 37. Revolutionizing the $24 Billion self storage industry 180 employees - $26 million funding insight Partners
- 38. wordpress hosting Platform for business 150 employees - $18 million funding Northbridge
- 39. $6 Million Funding CHarles River Ventures, A16Z
- 40. Lots more… • Aceable • Goodybag • Chiron Health • Zing • Nuve • Pristine.io • Smart Picture Tech • Lynx Laboratories • LanternCRM • Impossible Ventures • eRelevance Corp • Pingboard • Togga • Curb • Kenguru • Aunt Bertha • Weeva • RealMassive • ManagerComplete • ihiji • TripChamp
- 41. Apply online • Coworking http://capitalfactory.com/join • Accelerator http://angel.co/capitalfactory/apply • Back the Syndicate http://angel.co/capitalfactory/syndicate
- 42. if you found this helpful Please help someone else http://ATXStartupScene.com
- 43. ask me anything • What do you look for? • When am I ready? • Am I too far along? • What is the real time commitment? • How to get the most out of Demo Day? • How to get the most out of AngelList? • What’s an example of how a mentor helps? • How active is the alumni network? • Y Combinator, Techstars • Capital Factory • Longhorn Startup • International Accelerator • SKU, Unltd • Austin Tech Incubator • Bootstrapping • Angel Investors • Venture Capital • Coffee Shops • Coworking Spaces • Associations • Hack-a-thons • Finding a Co-Founder • Diversity • Hardware • UT Austin • Crowdfunding
- 45. Angel investors • Capital Factory Fund Mellie Price, Andrew Busey • ATXSeed Chris Shonk • CTAN Rick Timmins • Individual Angels Ross Buhrdorf, Andrew Busey, Brett Hurt, Dan Graham, Rony Kahan, Joe Liemandt, Tom Meredith, Joel Trammell
- 46. Pitch Events • Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition (February) • SXSW Accelerator (March) • Capital Factory Demo Day at SXSW (March) • Techstars Demo Day (June 2015?) • Global Venture Labs Investment Competition (May) • Capital Factory Demo Day at Startup Week (October) • Innotech Beta Summit (October) • SKU Demo Day • ATI Clean Tech & Wireless Forums • CTAN Presentation Day (5x) • House of Genius
- 47. venture capital • 500 Startups Dave McClure • Disruption Paul Singh • E-merge Patrice De Cafmeyer, Laurent Drion • ff Ventures John Frankel • First Round Josh Kopelman • FLOODGATE Mike Maples, Jr. • Mohr Davidow Bryan Stolle • Sutter Hill Ventures Sam Pullara
- 48. coder training? • General Assembly • IronYard • MakerSquare
- 49. what are the venture capital firms? • Austin Ventures Mike Dodd, Tom Ball, Chris Pacitti • Silverton Partners Jon Bassett, Morgan Flager • Live Oak Venture Partners Venu Shamapant • Mercury Fund Aziz Gilani, Ned Hill • S3 Ventures (enterprise + health) Rajiv Bala • Sante Ventures (biotech) Kevin Lalande
- 50. what Blogs should I read? • Bryan Menell - Austin Startup austinstartup.com • Jason Cohen - ASmartBear asmartbear.com • Brett Hurt - Lucky7 lucky7.io • Gordon Daugherty - Shockwave shockwaveinnovations.com • Ash Maurya - Running Lean practicetrumpstheory.com • Kip McClanahan - ReOverthinking reoverthinking.com • Silicon Hills News siliconhillsnews.com • WeAreAustinTech weareaustintech.com • Silicon Hills Law siliconhillslawyer.com • Joshua Baer - Austinpreneur austinpreneur.com
- 51. if you found this helpful Please help someone else http://ATXStartupScene.com