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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

entrepreneur training

ATI SEAL Rice Alliance Entrepreneurs Workshop Tech Ranch VentureForth General Assembly IronYard MakerSquare

Accelerator componentsAll 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

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)

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

capital factoryAustins 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

46,000 Square Feet full of

Entrepreneurs

programmers and entrepreneurs

700 Meetups and Hackathons

32,000

classroom teaching skills startups need

Some of the meetups

THe Blueprint

Community Center Coworking pace Mentoring Fund

VIDEO STREAMING Follow @Austintechlive

coworking starts at $200/month

As your company starts to grow reserve

Dedicated Desks

Private offices Sound proof and secure

Private offices teams from 2-10 people

phones and tablets available in the

Device Lab

Google glass available in the

Device Lab

DEVICE Lab 3D Printers and more

DEVICE Lab 3D Printers and more

Find investors, introductions & advice at

office hours

Peer Roundtables Learn from other entrepreneurs

SXSW and startup week

demo dayS

sxswStartup Village

Happy hours bringing people together

DENSITY DRAWS IN EVERYONE THAT STARTUPS WANT TO MEET

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

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

Cratejoy Syndicate

Revolutionizing the $24 Billion self storage industry

180 employees - $26 million funding insight Partners

wordpress hosting Platform for business

150 employees - $18 million funding Northbridge

$6 Million Funding CHarles River Ventures, A16Z

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

Apply online

Coworking http://capitalfactory.com/join

Accelerator http://angel.co/capitalfactory/apply

Back the Syndicate http://angel.co/capitalfactory/syndicate

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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?

Whats 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

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

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

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

coder training?

General Assembly IronYard MakerSquare

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

what Blogs should I read? Bryan Menell - Austin Startup

austinstartup.com

Jason Cohen - ASmartBear asmartbear.com

Brett Hurt - Lucky7 lucky7.io

Gordon Daugherty - Shockwaveshockwaveinnovations.com

Ash Maurya - Running Leanpracticetrumpstheory.com

Kip McClanahan - ReOverthinkingreoverthinking.com

Silicon Hills Newssiliconhillsnews.com

WeAreAustinTechweareaustintech.com

Silicon Hills Lawsiliconhillslawyer.com

Joshua Baer - Austinpreneuraustinpreneur.com

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