Where are you from originally?
The President of Code Authority and Founder of CodeLaunch,
Jason W. Taylor, is from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
What university did you go to?
University of Oklahoma
What brought you to Austin?
We are based in Dallas (Frisco) Texas
What is your group’s mission?
The CodeLaunch mission is to offer a venue for very early
stage App ideas to get seed funding and launched as a service to the hopeful
entrepreneurs and active angels in the North Texas community.
What need does it fulfill?
CodeLaunch is an App startup funding and investment venue.
We invite the general public to bring their “app ideas”, line-of-business
concepts and other ideas that could benefit from software development services
to compete for an invitation to our annual event in August.
Along with our own investment, we hope get third party
investors will also help seed fund some of the competitors.
What exactly does it bring to startups?
The “overall winner” of Pitch Day gets investment from the
software development services company that produces the event, Code Authority
Custom Software. In short – they get a partner, not a vendor. They can get
their app built for free.
There are many other benefits, awards, and ways to benefit,
as well as representatives from Angel groups and VC at the event and networking
reception which follows. Competitors can potentially be funded even if they are
not the “Overall Winner”.
What type of startup would benefit from your group? Any Embryonic
Stage, or Early Stage Software Application (or simple “App”) startup.
What was the most challenging aspect of starting up the
initiative?
This is CodeLaunch’s 5th year. We have started 6
companies in our history and helped 2 others connect with 3rd party
funding at Pitch Day. While we have one
recent “Exit” we are proud of, and have provided thousands of hours of free labor
to the various benefactors, the most challenging aspect is getting people to
know this medium exists and is credible.
What advice do you have for entrepreneurs?
Have the guts and mental toughness to get back up every time
you get knocked down when working on your startup ideas.
Key
Information
http://www.codelaunch.com/
Applications
Accepted via website through May 31, 2015.
Finalists’
Pitch Day event: August 13, 2015 Frisco TX 2:45-5pm, Networking Reception
follows.
CodeLaunch
is produced for the benefit of the startup community by Code Authority Custom
Software and a group of sponsors and partners. http://www.codelaunch.com/.
To
attend CodeLaunch Pitch Day RSVP to Sarah Mix, 469-656-5023,
2013
Winner RentEval “Exit”
More information here.
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