Kevin stays very busy speaking, encouraging, and accelerating the entrepreneur community locally in Austin TX, as well as nationally and internationally.
Here’s a list of his speaking engagements with a summary of topics:
September 10, 2011, NextFest during Austin Startup Week
August 6, 2011 Product Camp 7, Austin, TX
Avoiding Common Entrepreneurial Mistakes
Summary:
How do you avoid some of the most common mistakes that kill most startups? In this session Kevin Koym, 5 time entrepreneur and Founding Partner of Tech Ranch Austin shares several stories that have killed startups, and what to do to make sure that your startup is not entrepreneurial road kill. Drawing upon real live issues around the Tech Ranch, this session can have direct impact on your startup.
June 17, 2011, Hulsey IP, Austin, TX
Summary: Kevin Koym, Co-Founder and CEO of Tech Ranch Austin presented “How Tech Ranch & Chile’s ‘Region Fertile’ Project, under the Creative Cities Program, supports the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Chile, Latin America & the world.”
June 15, 2011 IEEE Consultants Network – Consultants Workshop, Austin, TX
Why Entrepreneurs Fail
Summary:
Briefly, Why Entrepreneurs Fail is a topic of great debate. At Tech Ranch Austin, we’ve found that many early stage entrepreneurs have misconceptions about what causes failure, and so they may miss opportunities to succeed. Specifically, competition and cash flow are mistakenly seen as the major killers in a venture, when in reality Unproven Markets, Unknown Customers, and Unvalidated Products are more important to success than facing stiff competition or lack of cash flow. In Why Entrepreneurs Fail, we examine three case studies of entrepreneurs who had one fatal flaw in their ventures that stood between them and startup success. We examine these so that other entrepreneurs can learn to recognize the same tendencies and avoid failure in their own ventures.
5 Startup Bootcamps in cities around the country: Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and NYC
March 2011, uthinktank.com event at SXSW, Austin, TX
Kevin spoke about the four values related to startups.
August 7, 2010 Product Camp Austin, TX
Why Entrepreneurs Fail
August 15, 2009 Product Camp Austin, TX
From Employee to Entrepreneur
This was a speech that Kevin presented to Product Camp in the summer of 2009. It highlighted certain key issues when making the transition from a paid employee to a solo entrepreneur. Some of these issues include idea formation, surviving without a corporate paycheck, locating funding, and launching a product.
April, 2009 SXSW, Austin, TX
The Rise of the Enterprise Tribe
This was a speech that Kevin gave at SXSW interactive in April 2009 that presented and released the first copies of his book The Rise of the Enterprise Tribe: An Entrepreneur’s Field Guide for the 21st Century By Kevin Koym, with Marla Dial.
