Naturally Caffeinated: The Community Edition

  Troy Henikoff, the managing director of TechStars Chicago once asked our Starter League students if their startups were "painkillers or vitamins?" Vit...

  “Your first clients: Start with “who” then “how” to win over the “Cool Kids” A question I often get asked by entrepreneurs is, "how do ...

  What is within you waiting to emerge? What is that idea, that dream, that book, that company? Be in it. Just for a moment. See yourself living the s...

  Founding a company is unlike any other role I've ever had, even though I've started plenty of things from scratch for other people. In those other j...

  As someone who has had the privilege of being recognized with that fancy title you hear thrown around (" young entrepreneur"), I’d like to share som...

  An Example Investor Pitch Deck and Discussion A successful pitch deck organizes the concepts and details about your business so that you can clearly a...

  Many things have changed with regard to the systems and processes used to identify, evaluate, and hire college graduates and other young people in a t...

  First-time founders should go into their start-up understanding and accepting that, more than likely, they are not a CEO. It doesn’t mean that they ...

  In 1989, I was a contract recruiter at Tandem Computers here in Austin. My job was to recruit UNIX kernel hackers. I had a lot to learn, because our p...

  Creativity. One word with a hundred different meanings. It's creativity that enables entrepreneurs to succeed. We as the youth live in a time where be...

  The lean startup movement popularized the term "minimum viable product". The purpose of a minimum viable product (MVP) is to focus our efforts on just...

  I recall in the middle of my undergraduate studies a particular moment when I realized that everything in the world is someone's job. Yes of course co...

  Our world is rapidly evolving. All around us - and now, more than ever - enterprising young people are thinking about starting their own business vent...

  Some of the companies at Capital Factory will make it big. Most won't. That's ok. More important than every venture going big is supporting the gro...