Events matching tag "entrepreneur"
Friday, March 7
Join Dave Asprey, Veronica Belmont & Maneesh Sethi as they discuss automating your life while running your business. Running a startup is an intense, all-consuming undertaking and new entrepreneurs have a hard time keepi…
Intermediate
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Dave Asprey, Maneesh Sethi, Stephanie Burns, Veronica Belmont
What's it like starting a company with your significant other? Your work and home life will lose separation. Some VCs won't fund you as a matter of principle. But at the same time, you get to obsess about work together, …
Beginner
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Alexander Moore, Aye Moah, Derek Langton, Mendel Chuang
Saturday, March 8
Until recently, collaborative consumption primarily revolved around peer-to-peer transactions. In the past year, smart companies have taken notice of the possibilities for their businesses to take part as consumers in th…
Intermediate
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Andrew Reid, Mark Gilbreath
Wherever there are challenges, African creative minds thrive on building inventive alternative solutions. Westerners can learn a lot from their focus on a utility model, where disruptive ideas and applied technology re-i…
Beginner
Presenters
Fourie Du Preez
Sunday, March 9
The potential for Crowdfunding lies outside the USA. Emerging markets that have been cut off from the capital markets stand at a point in time to access billions of dollars of capital that will fundamentally challenge t…
Intermediate
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Jason Best, Sherwood Neiss
The handmade economy is a vibrant and growing sector, with increased online and in-person platforms to help makers and creatives build their businesses and sell their work. As events like the Renegade Craft Fair and Mark…
Intermediate
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Courtney Klossner, Eleanor Whitney, Rena Tom, Sharon Fain
Elite athletes must focus on more than physical training to win. Startup CEOs also have an inner game to master on the way to success. Yet many hidden challenges to being a startup CEO aren't talked about enough. Among o…
Advanced
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Dale Larson, Marcy Swenson
On August 20th, 2012 a product called “Instacube” was nothing more than a rendering. By the evening of August 21st, Instacube had raised over $100,000 in it's first day on Kickstarter and earned over 3,000 media hits. S…
Intermediate
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Savannah Peterson, Tom Miale
Circumnavigating the globe sounds exclusive to Magellan – but it’s shameful to think that type of go-anywhere travel isn’t accessible to everyone in the year 2014. What’s keeping you from traveling to the destinations of…
Intermediate
Presenters
Lee Abbamonte
Austin has created a reputation as a national hotbed for start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovation. This session will explore the elements that contribute to the creation of a community like Austin and how can entrepreneur…
Beginner
Presenters
Chelsea McCullough, Whurley
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP19922 A …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jessica Lawrence, Rasanath Das, Vipin Goyal
The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is sweating through the night when the dream turns into a nightmare. Minimizing politics. Firing friends. Sustaining a CEO mentality. Surviving the Struggle. While m…
Intermediate
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Ben Horowitz, Nas
This presentation puts a new spin on an old idea. In a world of seed rounds, exit strategies, and failing fast, entrepreneurs today are forgetting what it's like to run a business and your life in a way that a both are r…
Beginner
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Mario Lurig
Monday, March 10
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
There is a reason that office Culture is a buzzword today: Little has more power to influence you and your team than the environment in which you work. In fact, research has shown that positive Culture yields positive …
Intermediate
Presenters
Eric Falcao, Jeffrey Schutte, Liz Elam, Matt Chasen
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Mariano Suarez Battan
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
As a global society we are currently facing crises across every imaginable sector including economic, climate and humanitarian issues. What is the one common thread in all these crises? The solution lies in the power o…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chase Jarvis
We read stories of business failures every day—foolhardy CEOs driving a company into the ground, or startups never finding their footing. As an entrepreneur, failure will inevitably make an appearance in your story, too.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Evan Baehr, Lawson Boothe, Nate Little, Robin Bruce
Tuesday, March 11
Startups are great, right? Passionate people, working around the clock to launch ideas they know can change the world. Some get lucky and take off, going from tiny startup to mid-sized company in the blink of an eye. But…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gregory Gunn
Research has shown that increased gender diversity on boards leads to better boards and more productive companies with higher earnings. Only 11 women serve on the boards of Fortune 500 companies, even though in many cate…
Intermediate
Presenters
Fran Maier, Jody Greene, Rachel Pike, Theresia Gouw
How do you 'stand out' in a sea of startups, especially when over 40 million people in the US are involved in an entrepreneurial activity? Join Lyn Graft, producer and entrepreneurial storyteller, who has filmed over 400…
Beginner
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Lyn Graft
Get together with other bootstrap experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if y…
Beginner
Presenters
Bijoy Goswami
Stand up and present an up to 1-minute pitch about a music/technology related company or idea, to connect with others who might be interested in collaboration. Preparation is not necessary - but is definitely encouraged.…
Presenters
Brian Zisk
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