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Startup Digest

Austin

January 13, 2020

Read homegrown content at AustinStartups.com. Know someone new to the Austin startup scene? Forward this along - they can subscribe here. Have an event? Anyone can submit one here

Highlights
● Saturday Startup Spotlight: TaxTaker - Capital Factory
● Kick off 2020: How to Host Your Own Panel Events - Moby Hayat
● January Accelerator All Access - Capital Factory

Austin Digital Jobs
● Account Supervisor (Somnio)
● Customer Service Agent (Stitch Fix)
● DevOps Engineer (Social Solutions)
● Enterprise Software Developer (Accio)
● Office Manager (Dropoff)
● QA Engineer - Director (SciPlay)
● Sr. Backend Engineer (First Dollar)
● Sr. Product Manager (Seilevel)
● Technical Writer (Khoros)
● UX Writer (Liaison)

Austinpreneur podcast
● Matt Chasen and his Vision of Experiential Entertainment with Personal Aerial Vehicles 
● Unlocking the Power of Podcast Analytics with Jonathan Gill 
● Building the Perfect Home Using Emerging Tech with Gregg Alvarez 
Listen on SpotifyiTunesGoogle Play, and Stitcher

A special thanks to Austin Digital Jobs for providing us with the rad job listings and to Joseph Midura who helps manage AustinStartups.com. The Austin Digest is a volunteer effort organized by Joshua Baer and edited by Chris Sanchez.

Startup Digest Austin is curated by:
Joshua Baer

Joshua Baer - Founder, Capital Factory

Contact Joshua Baer at joshuabaer@thestartupdigest.com

Chris Sanchez

Chris Sanchez - Curator

Contact Chris Sanchez at chris.sanchez@startupdigestmail.com

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MON 13

Bunker Connect Austin: A Community of Resources for New Year's Resolutions (Free)

January 13th 5:00pm

Bunker Connect is a new approach to fostering a community of mentorship for service members, veterans, military spouses and supporters who are navigating professional and personal transitions. The program creates meaningful connections to advisors, community partners, and local employee resource groups as it inspires and equips the military community for success. Made possible by the Schultz Family Foundation, Bunker Connect is harnessing the wisdom, expertise, and network that already exists to up-level our community. Come connect with your community - to share your wisdom and learn from others with insight - and have a great time.

Venue TBA - Eventbrite | View in Calendar

MON 13

Algorithms Meetup: Pathfinding Algorithms with Speaker Tyler Poland (Free)

January 13th 6:00pm

Pathfinding algorithms are a key component in every engineer's toolbox. This event will be covering common pathfinding algorithm implementations, such as Dijkstra's and Bellman-Ford in depth, and will be touching on a few heuristic approaches, such as A* and D*.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

MON 13

PayTalk and Open Spaces (Free)

January 13th 6:00pm

Back by popular demand, it's PayTalk! We'll start the evening with PayTalk. Then, to give people a chance to drill into topics, we will run up to 6 'rooms' of open spaces this evening. Open spaces is a forum where you all propose topics, the group schedules them, and discussions happen. Don't worry if you've never participated in open spaces; we will explain how it works as we go along.

Rackspace, 9001 N I H 35 #150 · Austin, TX | View in Calendar

MON 13

Co-Founder Wanted (Free)

January 13th 6:30pm

If you are looking for Co-Founders or want to join an early-stage startup, this is the group for you. Since 2010, we are organizing pitch events for co-founders to network and those who want to work for a pre VC stage startup, or are looking to invest in one. Everyone is welcome to our group! Software developers, UX designers, hardware architects, executives, and students looking for a more exciting and challenging opportunity, as well as angel investors and VCs looking for the next BIG thing in Austin. Come on in, join us!

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

SA DreamWeek Roadshow with Accenture (Free)

January 14th 12:00pm

Join Capital Factory at DreamWeek for special interactive panel discussions & breakouts! In line with DreamWeek's mission- to celebrate humanity by creating environments for civil and civic engagement to embrace ideas and dreams for the common good- we're focusing on highlighting the journeys of underrepresented entrepreneurs. 

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Intro to the Austin Startup Scene & Ask Me Anything ($10)

January 14th 4:00pm

This month we are featuring Sean Duffy, Senior Partnerships Manager at Capital Factory and Chris Gerritz, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Infocyte, Inc. 

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Black Women Talk Tech: New Year goal-setting workshop (Free)

January 14th 6:00pm

New Year, New YOU! 2020 is the perfect year to jumpstart your goals to make 2020 the best year yet.

 Please join the Austin Chapter of Black Women Talk Tech for an interactive workshop on setting your goals for 2020. You'll connect with other driven professionals, build your network, and get advice on how to set your goals for next-level success. Friends, allies, and everyone in between are welcome.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Control the Room: Facilitation Practice (Free)

January 14th 6:00pm

To kickoff the new year, we'll have facilitation practice where you can get hands-on with tools for better meetings. You can sign up like karaoke to try out a new method or just participate. Either way, we would love to have you! The best way to become a great facilitator is practice. Control The Room is a monthly meetup focused on helping facilitators hone their craft to help improve the quality of meetings.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Hyperledger Meetup: TradeLens Federal Maritime Agreement and the TradeLens Platform API (Free)

January 14th 6:30pm

If you are serious about blockchain and consider yourself a blockchain professional or your company is involved in the blockchain space you do not want to miss this event. This event delivers information you need to know and understand to succeed in the blockchain space. You will not receive this knowledge anywhere else. Arm yourself for the future of blockchain and network with likeminded professionals serious about the future of blockchains in the Enterprise space and at global scale.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Austin DJs January Technical Meetup (Free)

January 14th 7:00pm

This group is for new and veteran DJs to socialize, network, and learn from each other. We make time for presentations and workshops, socializing, and of course, playing some tunes. Whether you've been spinning vinyl for decades or just bought your first digital DJ controller, this group of music lovers is the place for you!

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

TUE 14

Tech Workers Coalition: Organizing For Tech Workers' Rights (Free)

January 14th 7:00pm

Our speaker this month is Aslan French. Aslan is a digital technologist with an interest in the intersection of politics, policy, and technology. He is one of several people regularly organizing TWC (Tech Workers Coalition) meets in Austin. He also volunteers tech work with several other local advocacy groups who are similarly aligned in purpose with TWC. Lastly he's a member of an art collective and likes to make weird tech art in his free time.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 15

Global & Agile: Executing a High-Performance Decentralized Team Strategy ($50 - $75)

January 15th 5:00pm

Engineering scarcity, strong competition, migration policies among other factors are affecting current talent and product strategies even in the fastest-growing organizations. We will encourage a dialogue to discuss the execution and dynamics of decentralized teams, using talent from all over the world, while maintaining their culture and service on top.

Max's Wine Dive: 207 San Jacinto Blvd Ste. 200, Austin, TX 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 15

Edtech Austin and Weteach on CTE Policy Change (Free)

January 15th 6:30pm

EdTech Austin is the hub for amazing keynotes, panel discussions, edtech mixers, member spotlights, and hands-on learning experiences that inspire teachers, entrepreneurs, technologists, education reformers, and edtech enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, and innovate. We meet to explore various topics at the intersection of education and technology, to learn about the latest technologies that are supporting teachers, and to hear from teachers about the problems in education that must be fixed now.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

WED 15

Products That Count: Indeed Product Lead on Building a Talent Marketplace ($8 – $10)

January 15th 7:00pm

We’re excited to kick off our 2020 Austin speaker series with a VIP Product Exec from Indeed! Indeed, a product pioneer in Austin, has been a host of Products That Count since our inaugural event last year. We’re so excited to start 2020 off with them! They will share best practices from their experience connecting people with jobs and building a global marketplace for talent

Favor Delivery /H-E-B Eastside Tech Hub, 2416 E 6th Street, Austin, TX 78702 | View in Calendar

THU 16

How to Improve Your Store and Sell More in the New Year (Free)

January 16th 6:30pm

This month, AJ Davis will be presenting "How to Improve Your Store and Sell More in the New Year." She'll be reviewing techniques for understanding your customers and what they need from your store. She'll also share trends you can test on your own ecommerce site to improve your conversion rate and keep your cusomers happy.

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701 | View in Calendar

THU 16

DevSecOps (Tools and Tactics) (Free)

January 16th 7:00pm

We will be going over the different tools that are used and the overall process flow and pipeline for DevSecOps.

Barnes & Nobles La Frontera Village, 2701 Parker Road · Round Rock, TX | View in Calendar

Upcoming Events:


MON 20

Web 3.0, Polkadot, and the 2020s: The decade of internet privacy beyond Big Tech (Free)

January 20th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 21

Founder's Academy (Free)

January 21st 11:15am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 21

Intro to Defense Innovation & Ask Me Anything: Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification with Kevin Landtroop and Luke Barnes ($10)

January 21st 4:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 21

Austin Job Seeker's Meetup (Free)

January 21st 5:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 21

CloudAustin January - 2010s Retrospective (Free)

January 21st 6:00pm

Rackspace, 9001 N I H 35 #150 · Austin, TX

TUE 21

Founders LIve ($0 - $10)

January 21st 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 21

Austin Music Tech Meetup - Founder Story From Jason Fox of Earbuds! (Free)

January 21st 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 22

LLVM Meetup (Free)

January 22nd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 22

Austin IoT: Introduction To AI and ML (Free)

January 22nd 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 22

Winter Job Fair (Free)

January 22nd 7:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 23

Scaling Your Mindset: Cultivating Courage with Jessica Honegger of Noonday Collection ($25)

January 23rd 11:30am

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

THU 23

Austin AWS: AWS re:Invent Recap! (Free)

January 23rd 6:00pm

AWS Austin Office 11601 Alterra Parkway, 5th Floor, Room 5.406 · Austin, TX

THU 23

Big Data AI: Panel Discussion - Advancements in AI (Free)

January 23rd 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

SAT 25

Data Day Texas 2020 ($280 – $525)

January 25th 8:00am

AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center, AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center, 1900 University Avenue, Austin, TX 78705

MON 27

Founder's Folly (Free)

January 27th 6:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

MON 27

Action Design (Free)

January 27th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 28

3C Small Business Roundtable (Free)

January 28th 12:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 28

Founders Stories Austin with Patti Soch and Robert Reeves (Free)

January 28th 4:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

TUE 28

Talk: How to Become a Web Developer Without Prior Experience! (Free)

January 28th 6:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 29

Healthcare Device and Data: The Market Potential of Connected Medical Devices (Free)

January 29th 5:30pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

WED 29

MassChallenge Texas in Austin Launch 2020 (Free)

January 29th 5:30pm

South Congress Hotel, 1603 South Congress Avenue Austin, TX 78704

THU 30

Network & Showcase - African Startup Ecosystem (Free)

January 30th 6:00pm

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin 78701

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