Texas-Squared Startup Newsletter #175
Texas Startup News, Opinion & Events in the Lone StartUP State
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With Tech Expansion, Austin Is Still Weird. It’s Just More Wired Now, Too. — Link
- New York Times’ Manny Fernandez
“We don’t want to become Silicon Valley — we want to be Austin,” said Joshua Baer, the founder and chief executive of the Capital Factory, launched in 2009 to mentor, finance and support start-ups and entrepreneurs. “What makes Austin really different, to me, is the culture clash. But it’s not a clash. It’s the culture collaboration.”
Phunware, one of Austin’s fastest-growing tech companies going public — Link
- Austin Business Journal
“We don’t want to become Silicon Valley — we want to be Austin,” said Joshua Baer, the founder and chief executive of the Capital Factory, launched in 2009 to mentor, finance and support start-ups and entrepreneurs. “What makes Austin really different, to me, is the culture clash. But it’s not a clash. It’s the culture collaboration.”
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Looking to streamline your business so you can spend more time on growth? Zoho’s coming to Austin on January 11th to help you learn how you can run your entire business online with one suite of apps for everything from sales and marketing, to support and collaboration, to finances and more. We’ll go over basics and best practices for running your business and provide everything you need to get you through a full day of learning, including breakfast, lunch, and plenty of coffee. !
Zoho One Tour
January 11th 8:00am-4:00pm
AT&T Conference Center
1900 University Ave, Austin, TX 78705
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Startup Grind Austin — https://www.startupgrind.com/austin/ Theme: Technology Company Leader Interviews 2nd Wednesdays at Capital Factory 701 Brazos Austin, Texas 78701
OpenCoffee Club Austin — www.opencoffeeaustin.org Theme: Tech Startups
1st and 3rd Thursday mornings at Houndstooth 401 Congress Ave #100c, Austin, TX 78701 & last Wednesdays at Whole Foods Domain 11920 Domain Drive Austin, TX 78758 [ Web | iCal ]
Wake Up! CPG Conversations over Coffee — http://bitly.com/wakeupcpg Theme: Consumer Packaged Goods — fourth Thursday mornings at Cosmic Coffee & Beer 121 Pickle Rd, Ste 111 Austin, Texas 78704 [map]
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- Capital Factory Mentor Arie Brish’s new book “Lay an Egg and Make Chicken Soup” is “ #1 New Release” and ranked among the “Top Ten Best Sellers” in the Venture Capital category. The book covers all the moving parts and potential blind spots in commercializing new products or services. It is on sale for my friends & family during the launch period until Jan 15. www.cxo360.net/book
- Vista Private Equity promotes three senior vice presidents, Rachel Arnold, Justin Stalder and Justin Cho, and Director of Capital Markets Kevin Sofield, into its partnership ranks — Link
- Buyouts’ Chris Witkowsky - Saxena: More Than a Tool, A.I. Must Be Used With Society in Mind — Link
- Xconomy’s Angela Shah - Newly-founded Texas firm sues over Apple Pay’s virtual wallet — Link
Apple Insiders’ Roger Fingas - How This Woman-Owned Sewing Studio In Texas Combats The Refugee Crisis — Contributor ForbesWomen Jane Claire Hervey — Link
- Bay Area startup bets on Texas with HQ move to Austin — Link
- San Francisco Business Times - Vista Equity Pays $1.9 Billion For MINDBODY — Link
- Texas Tech Pulse - Culture can be defined by what employees don’t say — Link
- Hack your CV into standing out to recruiters — Link
- Making Slack actionable makes you productive — Link
- GoFraudMe: How to avoid crowdfunding scams — Link
- Hobby to profession: The new-age entrepreneurs — Link
- Beware: LinkedIn is a social network with privacy issues, too — Link
- The American Genius - The Top Austin Tech and Startup Hires and Departures in December 2018 — Link
- Austin Startup Funding, Acquisitions and Venture Capital Activity in December 2018 — Link
- The Best Austin Inno Event Photos from 2018 (Gallery) — Link
- AustinInno’s Brett Wistrom - This Week is How Austin Used to Be — Link
- Top 10 Austin Tech Stories of 2018 — Link
- SXSW’s Hugh Forrest - Sleek, creative and quirky: These 8 tech offices wowed us in 2018 — Link
- How Stocked Robotics is taking warehouses by storm with autonomous forklifts — Link
- New Year, New You: Live your passion at these 5 Austin tech companies — Link
- Austin tech raised over $1.7B in 2018. These were the largest 10 — Link
- Recharge when you need to: These 5 Austin tech companies offer unlimited PTO — Link
- Tech roundup: Hypergiant’s big plans, droves of funding rounds, and more — Link
- BuiltinAustin’s Katie Fustich - 3 things to know as Dell returns to stock market today — Link
- One of Austin’s fastest-growing tech companies going public — Link
- ABJ’s most popular slideshows of 2018 — Link
- Effort to help military veterans start businesses snowballs — Link
- Texas lawmakers to again debate subsidies for film, video games in 2019 — Link
- Real Estate Roundup: Home Depot expands innovation lab downtown while builder gets new home in suburbs — Link
- Austin promotes civil servant to oversee affordability issues — Link
- With tech expansion, Austin is still weird. It’s just more wired now, too — Link
- M&A wrap: Buying a bank, financial lubricant for oil companies & innovation software — Link
- Editors Picks: Austin’s top 10 business stories of 2018 — Link
- Readers Picks: Austin’s top 10 business stories of 2018 — Link
- In the money Dec. 24: More than $14M, from on-demand life insurance to U.S. Navy research — Link
- Looking back: A year inside the heads of Austin’s most influential business leaders — Link
- Austin Business Journal - Public again: Dell resumes trading on Wall Street — Link
- Tech Academy coding school opens Austin campus — Link
- Austin’s Phunware completes merger with Stellar Acquisition III — Link
- Austin’s Bumble launches “Convo Starters” to help break the ice — Link
- At UT’s design school, Fortune 500 firms investing to ‘stay in front’ — Link
- Startup Spotlight: Austin’s OutboundEngine aims to help small businesses succeed — Link
- Austin American-Statesman / 512Tech
SAN ANTONIO
- San Antonio Startup Events for the Week of December 24, 2018 — Link
- Startups San Antonio’s Iris Gonzalez - 2018: The Year in Rivard Report Photographs — Link
- City Looks to Clamp Down on E-Scooter Violations as Vehicles Multiply — Link
- Female Profs at UTSA Help Single Mom Defy the Tech Industry’s Gender Gap — Link
- The Rivard Report - Metallica Donates $100K to Texas College — Link
- Year of the Pissed-Off Citizen: San Antonio’s Top 10 News Stories of 2018 Point to a Trend of Rising Civic Engagement — Link
- San Antonio Current - Most read San Antonio tech stories of 2018 — Link
- Here’s what San Antonians Googled for the most in 2018 — Link
- End of Year 2018: Taking stock and finding direction of local business — Link
- SA virtual health care company acquires Colorado business — Link
- Schools, businesses and nonprofits push tech education in 2018 — Link
- End of Year 2018: Business on the Northeast Side — Link
- Electronics rise to the top of college bowl gifts this season — Link
- End of Year 2018: Business on the North Side — Link
- Cloud predictions by Rackspace, Hostway execs for 2019 — Link
- End of Year 2018: Business on the Northwest Side — Link
- Gabe’s Faves: Business Journal’s photos of the year for 2018 — Link
- Clear Channel Outdoor and iHeartMedia agree to separation — Link
- SA cybersecurity company helps businesses phish their employees — Link
- More than half of women are primary breadwinners — Link
- End of Year 2018: Business in Central San Antonio — Link
- Schools, businesses and nonprofits push tech education in 2018 — Link
- San Antonio Business Journal’s Kristen Mosbrucker
- The Best Photos Published in D Magazine In 2018 — Link
- The Best Dallas Nightlife Photos of 2018 — Link
- The Editors of D Magazine Reflect on Their Favorite Stories of 2018 — Link
- D Magazine - Another Dallas investment firm raising more than $1B for new fund — Link
- North Texas biotech settles litigation over ADHD drug — Link
- Who were Wall Street’s biggest dealmakers of 2018? Here’s the tally. — Link
- A year of living dangerously: The biggest IPOs of 2018 — Link
- Does an unexpected middle market low mean trouble for M&A in Texas? — Link
- Dallas health care tech company raises nearly $11M — Link
- How this exec went from investor to president of this DFW company — Link
- See where Dallas ranks among best cities to start a business — Link
- Dallas firm raises funds to buy up small private equity stakes — Link
- Tyler Technologies gets love from analysts after rough patch on market — Link
- Dallas Business Journal - Sears said it will close an additional 80 stores, including seven in Texas — Link
- Army looks for a few good robots, sparks industry battle — Link
- Baylor-Hermann Memorial merger will create closely watched mega-provider — Link
- AT&T looks to prove itself as a big-league media company — Link
- North Texas wants to keep up the momentum in 2019 as a tech testing ground — Link
- Changes are coming fast and furious in the retail world in 2019 — Link
- Even without Amazon and Apple, North Texas attracts plenty of corporate headquarters — Link
- How does Dallas compete with Austin? Go big, get loud and beef up UTD — Link
- If you invested $1,000 a year ago, there are only two sectors where you’d still be ahead — Link
- Dallas Morning News
- NFP Ventures Invests in Vivante Health, Inc., a Digestive Health and Disease Management Health Care Company — Link
- NextSeed Year in Review — Video
- StartupGrind Bryan College Station — Quake Capital’s Chad Burgess — Video
- LetsLaunch to offer first active raise, MedCognition PerSimTM — Link
- 3 Brothers Joseph Amos, Jonathan Amos & Malcolm Sykes to all Have MBA Degree from Same University — Link
- New Houston app helps smart, sporty users find their next thrill — Link
- 5 top trending innovation stories in Houston this week — Link
- Daydreaming — when done correctly — can be good for business — Link
- Houston software startup pivots to provide digital networking solutions — Link
- 5 can’t-miss innovation events for January — Link
- Houston travel startup plans major relaunch for next month — Link
- Houston startup plans to expand services and footprint following $2 million seed round — Link
- 4 perks to using coworking space — Link
- Houston-based company’s device is revolutionizing drone technology across industries — Link
- 3 Houston innovators to know this week — Link
- InnovationMap / Culture Map Houston - Dr. Billy Cohn’s First Invention — Link
- HighDrive Network - As it fights dementia, BrainCheck raises money from Austin VCs, opens office in Texas capital — Link
- Washington Ave. coworking tenant above Julep revealed — Link
- Lone Star College selected to receive grant from heavy metal legends — Link
- Longtime Houston Farmers Market vendor to close (Video) — Link
- Houston health care tech co. raises VC funds, plans to hire — Link
- New York coworking CEO ‘a little shocked’ at lack of luxe options in Houston — Link
- Houston health care co. taps former Memorial Hermann exec as new CEO — Link
- Three meaningful strategies for managing rapid change — Link
- Houston-based energy retailer’s general counsel resigns — Link
- Houston-based health care software co. trades hands — Link
- Op-Ed: Latino leadership is Houston’s best-kept secret — Link
- Photos: Tour Life Time’s new $37M athletic resort near Baybrook Mall — Link
- Houston Business Journal - Tech entrepreneurs go ask Alice for help — Link
- The Houston Chronicle / Techburger Blog
- On Job Titles at Startups — Casey Software’s Keith Casey — Link
- The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019 — Intercom’s Scott Brinker — Link
- Willy Wonka and the Medical Software Factory — New York Time’s Kate Kelly — Link
- The Founder/Investor Honeymoon — Nextview’s Rob Go — Link
- The Biggest Tech Stories from 2018 in Every American Inno Market — Link
- Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States — E Pluribus Unum’s Alexander B. Howard — Link
- Residents Increasingly Fleeing New York, Los Angeles and Chicago — Bloomberg’s Alexandre Tanzi and Wei Lu — Link
- Why It’s Hard To Escape Amazon’s Long Reach — Wired’s Paris Martineau and Louise Matsakis — Link
- Amazon’s HQ2 decision starts local firestorms — Axiom’s David McCabe and Erica Pandey — Link
- How To Make 2019 Your Best Freelance Year Yet — Forbes Contributor Annie Ridout — Link
- How Much is Too Much? 4 Step Formula For Trading Startup Equity For Professional Services — Dan Martell — Link
- Amid plummeting stocks and political uncertainty, VCs urge their portfolios to prepare for winter — Techcrunch’s Jonathan Shieber- Link
- 2018 essay collection on growth metrics, marketplaces, viral growth in the enterprise, and more (PDF included) — Andrew Chen — Link
- The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, But It’s Not What We Expected — Wired’s Craig Mod — Link [I could not agree more with his assessment that email newsletters are a robust and flourishing medium]
- Stop Ending Your Speeches With ‘Any Questions’ and End with This Instead — Inc. Magazine’s Deborah Grayson Riegel — Link
- 44 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2019 — Business Insider’s Julie Bort and Rosalie Chan — Link
- Planning And Strategery Over The Holidays — Semil Shah — Link
- 10 startups outside of Silicon Valley to watch in 2019 — VentureBeat’s Anna Hensel — Link
- The Making Of A Tech Star — YPO’s Melissa Fleming — Link
- Startups spend at lower rates in some tech hubs — San Diego Union-Tribune’s — Brittany Meiling — Link
- Richard MacManus: 2019 tech predictions — Link
- Israeli VC, Hospital Launch $45M Medical Innovation Fund — Forbes Contributor — Amir Mizroch — Link
- How a New Generation of Black Entrepreneurs Built Atlanta’s Hot Startup Scene — Inc. Magazines’ Cameron Albert-Deitch — Link
- 6 Simple Steps How To Get The Most Out Of Your Mentor Relationship — Becky Holton — Link
- 2018 Was the Year of the Smart City Skeptic — CityLabs’ Laura Bliss — Link
- What Happens Next? Conversations from MARS — Narrated by Adam Savage — Link
- The Book That All Entrepreneurs Need To Read To Be Wealthy
Inc.com Contributor Benjamin P. Hardy — Link - How to Be Direct With Your Co-Workers, Without Sounding Like a Jerk — The Muse’s Kat Boogaard — Link
Tech Events Network: Austin | Dallas | Houston | San Antonio
Inventors Hackathon
by Fruition Technology Labs
Thursday, Jan 3, 2019, 6:00 PM — Saturday, Jan 5, 2019, 2:00 PM CST
16800 Imperial Valley Dr Houston, TX 77060
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FITA: Technology, Culture, & Policy with Dr. Bob Metcalfe
Freedom in Tech Alliance
Hosted by Freedom in Tech Alliance
Thursday, January 10, 2019 at 7 PM — 9 PM
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street 1st Floor, Austin, Texas 78701
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ATX Ladies Lab | Kickoff Happy Hour for Members
Wed, January 16, 2019 5:00 PM — 6:30 PM CST
BuildFax
115 East 5th Street #100 Austin, TX 78701
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Austin Startup Meetup
Fundraising 101 For Startups + 🍕
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street, Suite 1600 · Austin, TX
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The Refinery’s One Year Anniversary Bash
Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 7 PM — 10 PM
The Refinery
612 Brazos Street, Austin, Texas 78701
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A Preview of Station 3.0 for Station Mentors
Thursday, January 24th 5:30–7:30pm
Station Houston, 1301 Fannin Street
By Invitation Only
Culturati Summit
January 27–28, 2019
Brazos Hall
204 East 4th Street Austin, TX 78701
https://culturatisummit.com/
Rice University Symposium on Data Privacy
Hosted by Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Monday, January 28, 2019 at 1 PM — 5 PM
Bioscience Research Collaborative
6500 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77030
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Dallas New Tech
Launch DFW
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 6:00 PM — 9:00 PM CST
Common Desk
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Financials for Small Business with Wells Fargo
by Joi Chevalier and Carrie Smith
Wednesday, January 9, 2019 7:00 PM — 8:30 PM CST
The Cook’s Nook
502 Thompson Lane
Austin, TX 78742
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Co-Founder meetup by The tech^map
Cofounder Austin — Keynote: Lindsay Gray, Immigration Lawyer
Monday, January 14, 2019 6:30 PM — 9:00 PM CST
Capital Factory
701 Brazos Street, 16th Floor Austin, texas 78701
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Inventors Software/Hardware Natural Disasters Hackathon
Hosted by Fruition Technology Labs
Saturday Jan 19, 2019 at 11 AM — Jan 21, 2019 at 2 PM
7505A South Fwy (288), Houston, Texas 77060
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#work
A Conference For Creatives And Entrepreneurs
presented by #bossbabesATX
powered by Texas MSTC, Texas MBA and Bumble Bizz
Saturday January 19, 2019 10 AM to 5 PM
Rowling Hall at the University of Texas
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Silicon Hills News 2019 Austin Tech Calendar Party
Thursday, January 24, 2019 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (CST)
Opcity
6800 Burleson Road, Building 312 Austin, TX 78744
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Station 3.0 Anniversary & Launch Party
Wednesday, January 30, 2019, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM CST
Station Houston
1301 Fannin St. Suite 2440 Houston, TX 77002
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Houston Cyber Summit
Wednesday February 27, 2019
The George R. Brown Convention Center
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