Events matching tag "entrepreneurship"
Friday, March 7
With 120% of mobile penetration in the region we are on a tipping point. 700 million users are looking for new forms of entertainment, commerce and services in Latin America. What kind of business relationships are neede…
Intermediate
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Pablo Salazar
The technology industry has reinvented information, commerce, and social connection. But what if we could do more? What if the tech industry, the cornerstone and hope of the new economy, could reinvent business as usual?…
Intermediate
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Ben Rattray
There has been a proliferation of accelerators across the globe, and now across various "verticals" like energy, finance, hardware, etc. But there is another emergent theme of mission-driven accelerators who marry a publ…
Intermediate
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Corey Ford, Jake Shapiro
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/IAP18020 Ho…
Intermediate
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Andrew Sanderson, Eric Shelton, Quintin Henry, William Lowe
Every startup raves about innovation, but how does it work within a large company? As technology changes and consumer demand shifts, it’s vital for companies big and small to question and re-evaluate their strategies. Ad…
Intermediate
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Greg Tseng, Hetal Pandya, Mike Isaac, Ryan Magnussen
In 2010, I took the stage at an entrepreneurship competition. While I stood up there, I didn’t notice that the other four finalists were male until the organizer gave us our awards. Along with a plaque, they gave me a ma…
Intermediate
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Catherine Cook
Digital Health is a burgeoning space, with relatively few prolific angel and venture investors, but entrepreneurs are getting creative about finding capital. This presentation will dissect the funding options for variou…
Intermediate
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Andrew Farquharson, Breanna DiGiammarino, Halle Tecco, Sarah Kessler
Saturday, March 8
The myth that there are no successful tech companies run by people of color is just that, a myth. Meet three successful tech-enabled companies that have raised over $4 Million dollars in angel and seed funding, won prais…
Intermediate
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Darlene Gillard Jones, Heather Hiles, Nichelle McCall, Nicole Sanchez
Presented by The University of Texas at Austin, the Longhorn Startup Showcase is a fast pitch competition for UT Austin-based student companies with revolutionary ideas looking for funding to scale their innovations. In…
Intermediate
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Ben Dyer, Ken Demarest, Nelson "Rudy" Garza, Rob Warren
Just as we took our cues from MBAs and the military in casting the ideal CEO of the 20th century, we can look to design - in its broadest form - to model our future leader, the DEO. DEOs look at every business challenge …
Beginner
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Christopher Ireland, Maria Giudice
There have been persistent discussions in the entrepreneurship and technology spaces in the past several years about the need to increase funding for women-led startups. However, an increase in the actual numbers and dol…
Intermediate
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Christine Osekoski, Jesse Draper, Kate Brodock, Megan Quinn
It all starts with the hacker. You’ve got the coding chops, passion, great hair, instinct, and an idea that’ll set the world on fire. Pounding code from day to night, you bring your idea to reality and demonstrate its ga…
Intermediate
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Dries Buytaert, Tom Erickson
You can’t innovate without diversity. Period. Yet most of the proposed solutions to increasing diversity in tech involve people of color moving to Silicon Valley (leaving their social and supports networks) or exposing b…
Advanced
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Kathryn Finney
Just 1 in 14 tech employees in Silicon Valley is African American or Latino yet the number of young urban americans who want to start a business has never been higher. The question must be asked: are African/Latino Ameri…
Intermediate
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Amy Schapiro, Andre Briggs, Jason Smikle, Ryan Stoner
Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …
Intermediate
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Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in America has risen to record highs. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Resea…
Intermediate
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Deirdra Burgess, Judy Robinett, Natalia Oberti Noguera, Rodney Sampson
US market entry can be difficult for all entrepreneurs, both for US citizens, and more so for international entrepreneurs. In this panel you will hear the stories of four entrepreneurs that chose to enter the US market …
Beginner
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Jae Lee, Jerry Tian, Kevin Koym, Ricardo Jimenez
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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Rohit Bhargava
The United States was founded with maker spirit – fix what you have, make what you need and work together to achieve the best outcome. The maker movement is now rekindling those ideals in this generation. TechShop, a nat…
Intermediate
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Mark Hatch
One of the hardest questions for anyone selling a product is 'how much should I charge?' This question becomes even harder when you're selling highly unique items: rare collectables, time, tasks, journeys, space. For dis…
Intermediate
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Daniel Hill
Don’t let SXSW be a blur. These six tips can help you take SXSW from being a blur of an event to a transformative experience. This is my fifth consecutive SXSW Interactive festival (the first three I attended and partic…
Intermediate
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Cathryn Posey, Sophia Wong
Cat videos are no longer just an entertaining distraction between emails and facebook posts; they are now an economic force. In just the past year cat video "cat-lebrities" have inked movie and book deals, inspired touri…
Intermediate
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Ben Lashes, Grace Suriel, Scott Stulen, Will Braden
Internet pioneer, billionaire, angel investor, NBA team owner assesses the current state of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in a no BS session with Silicon Valley veteran Guy Kawasaki. The fun and in-depth c…
Intermediate
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Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban
Sunday, March 9
Whether you are thinking of starting a business or already started one, imagine being able to prototype your business using the same tools used by world class startups and innovative 21st Century businesses. During the…
Intermediate
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Jose Caballer
As the average student loan debt rises over $30,000 and options such as starting a company become more feasible for college-aged entrepreneurs, more young people will consider dropping out of college altogether. This pan…
Beginner
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Andrew O'Hara, Cam Houser, Connie Bourassa-Shaw, Michael Gibson
In recent years, Agile has impacted the way we create software. Delivering great digital experiences, arriving first to market and staying within budget is a growing dilemma in the technology space. We will talk about Ag…
Beginner
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Andres Angelani, Pablo Brenner
Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month…
Beginner
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Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
Journey entrepreneurship is a unique path which results from the "journey capital" of the founder. Your journey capital is the sum of experiences, relationships, knowledge, passions, skills and capabilities accumulated t…
Intermediate
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Bijoy Goswami
SXSW is a place of creative convergence, so why not use it meet creatives from other disciplines? Whether you are interested in telling a story through film or spreading the story of your brand you will be able to meet…
Intermediate
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Amy Dotson
Cited by People Magazine as one of the ‘Top Ten most successful young people in Hollywood’ and featured on the covers of magazine’s such as Complex and Black Enterprises’ 40 Under 40, Nick Cannon, 32 years old is a succe…
Beginner
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Mary Pryor, Nick Cannon
What if the world's best software entrepreneurs used all their resources to take on big projects beyond the Web like schools, hospitals and factories? Software engineers are already making real-world goods and services, …
Intermediate
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Glenn Kelman
I've just returned from a 5 month nationwide bus tour for my book on internet entrepreneurship, Without Their Permission, and I've met founders as well as college students (77 universities!), all fired up about creating …
Intermediate
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Alexis Ohanian
Transition is an inevitable part of every startup and successful business – at some (or several) points in time it becomes necessary to evolve in order to be competitive and maintain relevance. But, identifying the right…
Intermediate
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Ilya Fushman , Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Monday, March 10
With millions of sellers online and huge marketplaces like Amazon, can small merchants still compete? eCommerce sales in North America saw double digit growth and hit $364 billion in 2012. This number is expected to grow…
Intermediate
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Andrew Youderian, Billy Murphy, Naruby Schlenker, Sean Work
The Constitution calls for a patent system to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” …
Intermediate
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Julie Hopkins, Lee Dunn, Reihan Salam, Russ Merbeth
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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Kevin Planovsky
Returning from a decade of war, emerging military leaders had been required to innovate their way through countless cross-cultural interactions while deployed overseas. Stateside life has proved otherwise, as bureaucrat…
Intermediate
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Ben Kohlmann, Lindsay Rodman, Nate Fick, Victor Glover
Fact: There are over 20 million small businesses in the United States. Collectively, these small businesses represent a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. However, in the last five years alone, over 100 companies h…
Beginner
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Benjamin Rubenstein
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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John Arrow
Move over Silicon Valley - let's let the real pirates and gangsters play. In this panel, we'll hear stories about innovation from economic outlaws. What can we learn as entrepreneurs from pirates? From street hustlers an…
Beginner
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Alexa Clay, Catherine Hoke, Jean-Philippe Vergne, Jose Vasquez
Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as a meritocracy, where anyone can show up with a suitcase and a great idea and get funded. But that's not really how it works. Most venture cash flows to entrepreneurs with a prov…
Intermediate
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Sarah McBride
Tuesday, March 11
A description of an entrepreneur's two years serving as a senior advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship. The talk will include details on 7 mechanisms created to enable more engagement between the State Department a…
Intermediate
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Rebecca Taylor
"The Promise of a Pencil" is the memoir of Adam Braun, Founder & CEO of Pencils of Promise ("PoP"). Adam traded a lucrative career in finance to found Pencils of Promise, the groundbreaking organization founded in 2008 t…
Intermediate
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Adam Braun
In today’s highly competitive landscape, success often depends on the vitality of the creative process. From music to entertainment to technology, creativity is essential to producing and maintaining a competitive edge. …
Beginner
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John Maeda, Robert Safian
Funded in Austin features Founder/CEO’s of three technology startups who have pursued and secured investment in their entrepreneurial ventures – one from crowdfunding, one from angel funding, and one from venture capital…
Intermediate
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Cotter Cunningham, Josh Kerr, Shari Wynne Ressler, Utz Baldwin
Thursday, March 13
Most of the growth in Finnish music export originates from the success of Finnish metal music. Bands like Amorphis, Nightwish and Children of Bodom have been touring and selling records globally since late '90s. These ar…
Presenters
Laura Laaksonen
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