Ideas to Invoices
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsInterviews with successful entrepreneurs, many of whom have built and sold companies, featuring lessons learned in the process and advice for others wishing to become entrepreneurs. This podcast is a product of Silicon Hills News, a six year old technology news site covering companies and people in the Austin and San Antonio technology region in Texas.
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Jason Seats, Techstars, cofounder of Slicehost
May 06, 2017 04:00 - 31 minutes - 44 MBJason Seats is a Techstars Managing Partner and a technology entrepreneur. Jason was most recently the Managing Director of the Techstars program in Austin and Techstars Cloud in San Antonio. Prior to joining Techstars, Jason was a founder of Slicehost, an early cloud computing hosting company. In 2008 Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace and became the core for the initial Cloud Servers product. Jason continued on at Rackspace until 2010 as Vice President of software development for Racksp...
Louise Epstein
April 28, 2017 17:32 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBLouise Epstein is an Austin entrepreneur, former Austin City Councilmember and now managing director of the Innovation Center in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Epstein also served as entrepreneur in residence at the McCombs School of Business and as a fellow at the IC2 Institute at UT Austin. She was one of the first women investment bankers in Texas and used her experience to create Charge-Off Clearinghouse, a distressed debt company that valued...
Zeynep Young, Serial Entrepreneur, VC partner with Next Coast Ventures
April 13, 2017 03:35 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBZeynep Young is a serial entrepreneur who just became a venture capital partner with Next Coast Ventures. Previously, Young founded and served as CEO of Double Line Partners, an educational technology startup in Austin. And before that, she was portfolio director at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation and an associate principal at McKinsey & Company. Young holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern and a BA from Rice University. She is currently the CEO of milk + ho...
Tom Ball and Mike Smerklo, founders of Next Coast Ventures
April 05, 2017 20:45 - 29 minutes - 41.5 MBThis Ideas to Invoices podcast looks at early stage funding in Austin, Texas. It features an interview with Mike Smerklo and Tom Ball, co-founders of Next Coast Ventures, an Austin-based Venture Capital Firm that invests in early stage companies. Next Coast Ventures closed on a $85 million fund last month. One of the things that sets them apart from other VC firms is that both Smerklo and Ball are experienced entrepreneurs who have taken a startup from idea stage to exit. Before launch...
Jean Anne Booth
March 30, 2017 21:36 - 23 minutes - 33.2 MBjean Anne Booth is a serial entrepreneur in Austin. In 2013, she founded UnaliWear, the makers of the Kenega smartwatch for seniors. She serves as CEO of the company, which has raised $7 million in funding. Previously, Booth founded Luminary Micro, which sold to Texas Instruments in May of 2009. She retired from TI in 2012 after serving as the general manager of TI's Stellaris family of products. Booth also was a co-founder at Intrinsity, the creators of the graphics chip in Apple iPa...
MaxHoberman
March 23, 2017 04:35 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBIn 2006, Max Hoberman launched Certain Affinity, which is now Austin’s largest independent game studio. It has 125 employees currently with plans to hire 105 more game developers, Hoberman said. And Certain Affinity just purchased the 55,000 square foot building which previously housed the Texas Association of School Boards at 7620 Guadalupe Street. It will be moving in later this year. The company is currently in rented office space near the Domain area of North Austin. In this intervi...
Liz Elam, Link Coworking Founder
March 15, 2017 19:49 - 22 minutes - 31.7 MBLiz Elam is an Austin Entrepreneur and Founder of Link Coworking and Founder of GCUC - Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC). She opened Link Coworking back in the day when there were only three coworking spaces in all of Austin. Today, there are more than 50. Elam, a former executive with Dell, is regarded as a pioneer in the field of coworking and is known globally for efforts in the industry.
Bob Metcalfe, Internet Pioneer, Ethernet Inventor, 3Com Founder, Professor of Innovation at UT Austin
March 09, 2017 23:02 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MBBob Metcalfe is an Internet pioneer, Ethernet inventor, 3COM founder, former venture capital partner with Polaris Partners in Boston, former pundit and publisher with InfoWorld and now professor of Innovation at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. In this interview, he discusses how he invented Ethernet and founded 3Com. Just so know: We recorded this interview at Galvanize in the 2nd Street District in downtown Austin and construction workers were ...
Joseph Kopser
March 08, 2017 07:12 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBIdeas to Invoices interviews Joseph Kopser, a successful entrepreneur and co-founder of RideScout, a startup smartphone app created to increase transportation efficiency by getting people out of their cars and into other public, commercial and private options. Before that, Kopser spent 20 years in the Army, retiring in 2013 as Lt. Colonel. Most recently, Kopser served as global president of moovel, a division of Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz. In addition, Kopser co-founded The Banke...
Michelle Breyer: Naturally Curly, Texture Media
March 07, 2017 21:18 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBIdeas to Invoices is a podcast, put on by Silicon Hills News and hosted by Laura Lorek, about Austin and San Antonio entrepreneurs and how they built their companies. We talk about taking ideas from the innovation stage to the point where the company is making money. Many of the entrepreneurs interviewed have sold their companies and gone on to start new ventures. This podcast is meant to provide lessons learned so other entrepreneurs starting or running new ventures can benefit from their e...