#27 The Texas Venture Capital Ecosystem | Bob Metcalfe, Paul O'Brien, More

Welcome back to The Fire Show, the podcast from Austin about entrepreneurs, business strategy, and working your face off.
Today, I’m bringing to you the second panel I recorded at the FUND conference in April, brought to Austin for the first time every by FUND, Deloitte, Wilson Sonsini, and Entrepreneur Network.
In the first panel, we had investors and entrepreneurs, such as Jay Samit and BackGril Ventures amon many, talk about how meet investors, make an impression, and eventually raise capital for your company.
In this panel, we have a different focus, i.e investing and venture capital ecosystem in Texas. What problems do Texas entrepreneur face in this area? Why is there a perception of having to go to the east coast of the west coast for money? What are investors around us looking for that they can't find here? I mean, texas has no shortage of money.
The panelists introduces themselves as they speak, but we have on the panel Bob Metacafe, creator of the Ethernet Cable who was on the Tim Ferriss show recently, Paul o'brien founder of idea Tech Ventures, Joe Merrill and Amanda Eakin from Sputnik ATX, Martin Martinz from Founders Insittue, and more.
This panel was live streamed on the ENtrepreneur Network, and shared to a audience of more than 4MM.
Huge shout out to the FUND conference and MediaTech Ventures for helping me set this up.
I also invite you to the FUND conference on Oct 24,25th in Chicago, where I will be live-streaming the hell out of panels, interviewing people.
Ladies and gents, enjoy.