foundingAustin’s Up and Comers: Recent Episodes
Heather Wagner Reed
foundingAUSTIN magazine together with Juice Consulting founder and CEO Heather Wagner Reed are thrilled to present the new Up and Comers podcast, created to cover Austin’s startup boom. Wagner Reed’s passion for and connections to the startup and accelerator scene naturally complement the mission of foundingAUSTIN founder and publisher Dan Dillard, who is working to provide his audience insight into Austin’s flourishing businesses and into the organizations that support them. Up and Comers features guests in conversation with Wagner Reed on the latest in Austin innovation. “I am so excited to lead Austinites on a journey through the local startup world,” host Heather Wagner Reed says. “We are truly lucky to live in one of the most vibrant, pioneering, socially conscious, and entrepreneurial cities in the U.S. — it’s a great moment to shine a light on all the innovation that is happening here.”
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This week Heather is chatting with HOUSE OF L founders Lana Carlson,former Curator and Co-Founder of POP Austin,and Leslie Gossett, Broker Associate at Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty and Founder of L Design & Staging. Lana and Leslie developed the company as a way to combine their individual passions and strengths in high-end art and luxury real estate, and was created to fill a need in the art marketplace to help emerging as well as established creatives expand their reach and access to collectors.
Guests: Lana Carlson and Leslie Gossett - https://www.houseofl.art
Host: Heather Wagner Reed - https://www.instagram.com/juiceconsulting/
Producer: Myrriah Gossett
Audio Engineer: Jake Wallace
A Founding Media Podcast
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This week Heather is sitting down with Amos Schwartzfarb, Managing Director of Techstars in Austin and author of "Sell More Faster". After a career in tech and startups Amos moved over to the investment side of things with Techstars in 2015. Now after over 70 seed stage investments Amos has become one of the more active early stage investors, via Techstars Austin in all of Texas.
Guests: Amos Schartzfarb - https://www.sellmorefasterbook.com/
Host: Heather Wagner Reed - https://www.instagram.com/juiceconsulting/
Producer: Myrriah Gossett
Audio Engineer: Jake Wallace
A Founding Media Podcast
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This week FoundingAustin Up and Comers is exploring the world of Austin-based accelerators, starting with MassChallenge Texas. Heather sits down with Mike Millard, managing director, and Dana Rygwelski, director of Communications + Ecosystem to learn more about MassChallange and what they are hoping to bring to Texas. MassChallenge Texas is the second domestic and sixth international location in MassChallenge’s global network. The region launched in 2018 in Austin, Texas and accelerated 84 companies from 5 continents, 11 countries, and 5 major Texas cities.
Guests: Mike Millard and Dana Rygwelski - https://masschallenge.org/programs-texas
Host: Heather Wagner Reed - https://www.instagram.com/juiceconsulting/
Producer: Myrriah Gossett
Audio Engineer: Jake Wallace
A Founding Media Podcast
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
This week Heather is sitting down with CEO John Higley and CMO Stefan Schuster of EQO Life. Their company uses early detection technology to find invasive aquatic species. Their work and tech combined has helped save cities money, and infrastructure while they work to solve problems like Zebra Mussels in Central Texas.
Guest: John Higley and Stefan Schuster - https://www.eqo.life/
Host: Heather Wagner Reed - https://www.instagram.com/juiceconsulting/
Producer: Myrriah Gossett
Audio Engineer: Jake Wallace
A Founding Media Podcast
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Welcome to Founding Austin's Up and Comers podcast! On our first episode we are sitting down with Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer at SXSX. Heather and Hugh discuss what is coming up for SXSW 2019 and what we can expect to see disrupting the space this year.
Guest: Hugh Forrest
Host: Heather Wagner Reed
Producer: Myrriah Gossett
Audio Engineer: Jake Wallace
A Founding Media Podcast
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Up and Comers is a show about Austin's start up boom and focuses on the city's vibrant innovation sector.
Music from https://filmmusic.io:
"Son of a Rocket" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)