foundingAustin’s Up and Comers

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 GossettAudio Engineer: Jake WallaceA Founding Media PodcastMusic 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 GossettAudio Engineer: Jake WallaceA Founding Media PodcastMusic 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-texasHost: Heather Wagner Reed - https://www.instagram.com/juiceconsulting/Producer: Myrriah GossettAudio Engineer: Jake WallaceA Founding Media PodcastMusic 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 GossettAudio Engineer: Jake WallaceA Founding Media PodcastMusic 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/)