THE CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TEXAS
An event every month that begins at 5:00pm on day Fourth of the month, repeating indefinitely
RSVP FOR THIS EVENT
Perfect your pitch in a low pressure environment for the next big opportunity that comes your way.
Learn to craft a compelling pitch for your startup in a friendly, risk-free environment. We’ll start the workshop with a presentation from pitch coach and CF Mentor Wen Zhang. After the presentation, founders who attend can practice their live pitch then receive live feedback from CF Mentors and Investors.
During the workshop, we will discuss:
- Crafting a story-centric demo day pitch (3 to 5 minutes)
- Building a slide deck to accompany your pitch
- Preparing on the day of your pitch
You’ll walk away with:
- An outline of your pitch structure
- Knowledge of how to build a unique investor pitch that gets to YES
- Winning mindset and strategy to use on pitch day
- Feedback on your pitch from CF Mentors & Investors
Wen Zhang Bio:
Wen is the Founder and CEO of INNW Institute, with a mission to empower and support founders to grow and scale their business via pitching.
Wen succeeds in both the startup and corporate world experiencing in software, hardware, and service-based business models. She has experience in launching a new business, expanding the market internationally, and scaling and managing global enterprise business. In a Fortune 500 company, she is leading a $320M yearly product portfolio while managing 400 sales teams across the North American region. She is passionate about supporting founders to grow and scale their ventures, working through their business model as well as the pitching process to connect and resonate with investors and customers via pitch deck.
Wen holds a Master’s Degree in Marketing and Advertising from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Duke University.
Capital Factory Venture Team Attendees:
- Nick Spiller, Venture Principal
- Sanika Bhave, Venture Associate
- Tanaka Tava, Venture Associate
- Dana Tran, Venture Analyst
Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Design, Gamification, Psychology… We explore anything that allows us to make large-scale, positive impact on human behavior. We discuss the emerging efforts of many industries to help people improve their behavior through things like products, services, programs, policy or other experiences.
Building tools and experiences is not enough anymore. We need to take into account the quirky psychology of the human brain.
This is a group for software and hardware engineers of Hispanic ethnicity to showcase their knowledge and experience, and to build their professional network. If you’re not Hispanic, this is a great place to get to know Austin’s Hispanic hacker community! Our meetings feature topics in software and hardware technology presented by Austin’s Hispanic hackers. Come meet with us, showcase your accomplishments, learn from each other, and get to know your fellow Hispanic hackers! All skill levels and career stages are welcome.
A chance to meet with healthcare professionals and care professionals after work hours. Sub-specialty, doctors, and nurses are welcomed to share current concerns and problems with day to day hardware and software.
Current healthcare IT folks are encouraged to share the latest updates to ONC certification, HIPAA best practices, and FHIR systems.
Each event will start with 1 minute introductions from every attendee that includes their current position and what they are looking for help on and what expertise they can share with anyone else looking for help.
In changing times, we’re used to pivoting. Based out of the Capital Factory in downtown Austin, TX, technology and innovation are in our blood. We’ve learned that sound leadership skills are reliable in person and online.
Our club creates a fun, relaxed, professional environment to work on skills that will change your life.
Come check us out, we can’t wait to e-meet you!
The Center of Gravity Toastmasters normally meets every Thursday from 12:05 – 1:00 pm every Thursday each month on Zoom. On the fourth Thursday of each month, we meet at Capital Factory from 7:00 – 8:00 pm in downtown Austin. You have the option of attending this meeting either in person or online.
- Safe space to practice your public speaking skills (digital or in-person!)
- Constructive feedback from membership with your best interests at heart, who want to see you succeed
- A guided process to professional development and networking that makes taking the next step clear and easy
- A global network of outgoing leaders you can plug into whenever, wherever you are
- The freedom to work at your own pace
This is a free event open for anyone interested in Austin startups.
Do you:
• Want feedback on your ideas for a startup?
• Want to meet people that founded/run their startups in Austin?
• Want to know how startups in Austin are doing things and learn from them?
• Want to discuss the challenges you are facing in your startup and get help?
• Want to spread the word and get people talking about your startup?
• Want to share your startup experience with newbies?
• Want to help local startups with their challenges?
• Just want to meet other folks involved in startups?
Then, this event is for you. You could be an entrepreneur, designer, developer…well it doesn’t matter. This is open for everyone interested in Austin startups. Come, grab a drink and meet other startuppers in Austin. Exchange ideas, information, contacts, help each other and do more.
In this event, we will discuss how to find and retain advisors and mentors for your startup.
Jump into virtual worlds to battle, strategize and create with your (new) friends at AVL
Network & Play with Artists, Devs, Enthusiasts and people who’ve never tried vr in their lives
We showcase multiplayer VR games that take no experience to play & a few single player leaderboard challenges
We’re a community of friendly VR Developers, Artists, Enthusiasts, and people who’ve never even played in VR before! We play really easy to pick up motion sickness free VR games at public events, and test developer’s multiplayer games in private events. It’s a good place to meet VR players, so you can play more VR!
When you’re not in VR, there will be plenty of devs, artists and enthusiasts to talk with on the sidelines, we talk about development, code, games, VR, AR, Tech, gameplay, multiplayer experiences, startups, tech stuff, and sometimes pizza.
Don’t have a headset? No worries. We’ve got plenty of headsets; you don’t need a computer to join!
Deep learning offers exciting solutions to an array of computer vision, natural language processing, and other data science problems, made possible by faster computing, richer data sets, and open source frameworks.
We invite talks from machine learners and data scientists applying deep learning to solve problems along with tutorials and lessons learned. Talks are open to all Deep Learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, etc.).
A meet your co-founder/investor/business dev event but everyone who participates must pitch in front of the group. If you aren’t willing to pitch you can’t enter and must leave. The group gives each speaker direct feedback which is priceless. This makes networking afterward easy because everyone in the room knows exactly who everyone is and what their intentions are. This meetup is for everyone regardless of what you do or what industry you’re in! No slide decks or props allowed.
In changing times, we’re used to pivoting. Based out of the Capital Factory in downtown Austin, TX, technology and innovation are in our blood. We’ve learned that sound leadership skills are reliable in person and online.
Our club creates a fun, relaxed, professional environment to work on skills that will change your life.
Come check us out, we can’t wait to e-meet you!
The Center of Gravity Toastmasters normally meets every Thursday from 12:05 – 1:00 pm every Thursday each month on Zoom. On the fourth Thursday of each month, we meet at Capital Factory from 7:00 – 8:00 pm in downtown Austin. You have the option of attending this meeting either in person or online.
- Safe space to practice your public speaking skills (digital or in-person!)
- Constructive feedback from membership with your best interests at heart, who want to see you succeed
- A guided process to professional development and networking that makes taking the next step clear and easy
- A global network of outgoing leaders you can plug into whenever, wherever you are
- The freedom to work at your own pace
By Appointment Only
Our doors are open! Reach out to Members@CapitalFactory.com to book your private, in-person membership tour.
