THE CENTER OF GRAVITY FOR ENTREPRENEURS IN TEXAS
Are you an entrepreneur looking for the best next steps to finance your startup?
About this Event
On July 18, HERdacity is hosting a panel of entrepreneurs and investors from the startup community who will share their wins, losses, and experiences funding start-ups. The panel will provide mentorship to entrepreneurs with a focus on funding and discuss:
• The range of funding options in startups and what is required to get the money you need to keep your initiative moving forward
• The real trade-offs between family, self, and your startup, especially with regard to funding choices as a female entrepreneur
• Their journeys with start-ups and why they are passionate to mentor
We will leave plenty of time for Q&A and networking.
This event is open to the public, both women and men, and relevant for wherever you may be in your entrepreneurial journey. Whether you are considering a startup, actively seeking funding, or working to sketch out a long term plan for how to keep your startup viable, please join us!
Scholarships are available for those in need.
Speaker Bios:
Amy Looper
Co-Founder/COO of OneSeventeen Media, PBC
Amy is an AI EdTech-Mental Health Tech social venture entrepreneur. With nine partners, she grew her first tech company 8,164% in 35 months resulting in a $158M IPO one month later. Today, now on her 4th business having recently raised a $515k seed round, Amy and her partner at OneSeventeen Media have built a digital mental health platform called reThinkIt! that uses AI-driven chatbot assistants to help kids process difficult emotions. The evidence-based mobile apps have prevented a school shooting and student suicides.
OneSeventeen Media is Texas’ first Certified B Corp, recently becoming a Public Benefit Corporation. They are B Lab 2015 and 2016 Best For The World Awardees as a company recognized for using business as a force for good.
Andrea Kalmans
Principal, Lontra Ventures
As a Principal of Lontra Ventures, Andrea is a technology and new business market maker; she is an entrepreneur at heart with a keen analytical eye. She is a seasoned, Fortune 50 veteran with 15 + year’s experience in cultivating and building strategic relationships and delivering on financial commitments. These skills have been leveraged during her career spanning from NY Investment Banks to venture-funded start-ups in key sales, business development and marketing capacities.
Silva Gentchev
Co-Founder Reset
As Co-Founder at Reset , Silva helps create inspiring, productive workspaces for remote work professionals in Austin by partnering with unused restaurant spaces. Prior to founding her company, Silva spent 8+ years in product marketing and management – bringing SaaS products to market and driving adoption for companies like Ooyala, Amazon, and Dell. She is passionate about creating products that consumers connect with and love using.
Michael Gnagy
Founder, The Ordering.app
Michael Gnagy cofounded The Ordering.app, recently acquired by Google, a decade ago after realizing how frustrating ordering food was. Over the course of ten years, he grew the business and survived multiple changes in business model all without a dime of outside capital.
This is a group for anyone interested in decentralized applications and blockchains. Whether you are building on top of the Ethereum platform or simply want to discuss the possibilities of a cryptoeconomy, come join us.
Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications.
In short: Ethereum is the web, without the web servers. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.
To find out more about Ethereum, visit https://www.ethereum.org
Description
Startups with a direct sales model have to evolve from founders doing all the sales to managing a sales function. Since revenue generation is on the line, the stakes are high and the punishment for mistakes is even higher. A high-performing sales function can be the difference maker for successful future rounds of funding.
This supplement to the quarterly Founders Academy boot camp focuses on establishing and effectively managing the sales function for an early stage company. The topics covered include the following:
- Sales Models
- Sales Orgs & Territories
- Managing the Sales Team
- Sales Quotas & Compensation
- Intro to Enterprise Sales
About the Instructor
Gordon Daugherty
Over the past 15 years, Gordon Daugherty has seen more than 1,500 startup pitches, given personal advice to more than 500 entrepreneurs and been involved with raising over $45M in growth and venture capital. He spent the first ten years of his career in brand name companies like IBM and Compaq and then progressively gravitated towards the early stage and high growth companies. He spent eight years in the video conferencing industry, including four years as President of a company that grew to $36M in a short few years and went public on the Euronext stock market.
Gordon has served in an executive capacity over most company functions, but with emphasis on strategy, marketing, sales, business development, and M&A. He ran corporate development and strategy for Austin-based NetQoS, who grew rapidly to more than $55M in revenue before being acquired by CA Technologies for $200M and was a founding advisor for digital advertising pioneer MediaMind, who reached $65M in revenue and a NASDAQ IPO in 2010.
As President of Austin-based Capital Factory and through his advisory practice called Shockwave Innovations, Gordon is an active angel investor, VC and startup advisor. He is also a board member for Austin-based technology companies SwimTopia, Riskpulse and StoryFit. He is also a Managing Director at SoftMatch and a board member for Austin-based technology companies SwimTopia, Riskpulse, Chiron Health, and StoryFit.
What are Startup Founder’s Saying About Founders Academy?
“Founders Academy is a must! Gordon unlocked new value in concepts I thought I was already familiar with.”
“I’d recommend Founders Academy to other startup founders because of critical early alarms about easy to overlook things.”
“I wish we had done this a year ago.”
“I could not have been more pleased with how clearly Gordon explained things.”
“The way you convey the material is great and the examples you give makes things clear.”
“Fantastic. The camp really provides a complete view of the components necessary to build your business. The additional personal stories you interjected really validate your message.”
“I didn’t know anything about starting a company before joining Capitol Factory, and this workshop has probably taught me the most.”
“If you are thinking about becoming a founder this is an up close and personal intro from the trenches. If you’ve been around the block a few times, you’ll still learn something. A founder can’t hear this stuff enough.”
“I wish I could have done this years ago because my first venture with VC’s did not go well. You don’t know what you don’t know and the startup landscape is hard to navigate.”
This is a group for anyone interested in decentralized applications and blockchains. Whether you are building on top of the Ethereum platform or simply want to discuss the possibilities of a cryptoeconomy, come join us.
Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications.
In short: Ethereum is the web, without the web servers. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.
To find out more about Ethereum, visit https://www.ethereum.org
This is a group for anyone interested in decentralized applications and blockchains. Whether you are building on top of the Ethereum platform or simply want to discuss the possibilities of a cryptoeconomy, come join us.
Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications.
In short: Ethereum is the web, without the web servers. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.
To find out more about Ethereum, visit https://www.ethereum.org
This is a group for anyone interested in decentralized applications and blockchains. Whether you are building on top of the Ethereum platform or simply want to discuss the possibilities of a cryptoeconomy, come join us.
Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications.
In short: Ethereum is the web, without the web servers. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.
To find out more about Ethereum, visit https://www.ethereum.org
This is a group for anyone interested in decentralized applications and blockchains. Whether you are building on top of the Ethereum platform or simply want to discuss the possibilities of a cryptoeconomy, come join us.
Ethereum is a platform that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation decentralized applications.
In short: Ethereum is the web, without the web servers. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.
To find out more about Ethereum, visit https://www.ethereum.org
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