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Armando Vera Carvajal
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#local-austin - November 17, 2025 at 04:28 PM
Friday morning do work best in my experience
#local-austin - November 12, 2025 at 06:35 PM
<#C07CPS3P3G8|> Howdy! Hope everyone has been having a great November thus far. I'm looking to plan a founder morning walk around Lady Bird Lake in the coming weeks and wanted to get a pulse on everyone's general availability, considering two major holidays are looming. Feel free to reply to this thread with some rough times and dates that work for you. Thanks!
#02_general - November 12, 2025 at 06:30 PM
Thrilled to be a part of this community and excited to bring us together regularly here in the 512
#01_introductions - November 12, 2025 at 06:29 PM
Welcome to the community!
#local-austin - November 05, 2025 at 09:22 PM
Howdy! I'll be one of the judges at the upcoming Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition on December 12th at the UT Austin campus! Check out the post for more details if you are interested in attending!
#06_social - October 31, 2025 at 03:46 PM
Most haunting decisions - in my experience - always revolved around people. Whether it was not hiring someone early enough and missing out on a major opportunity, or even retaining them on the team by giving them better resources, pay, etc. Or worse, not firing/parting ways with someone soon enough before they caused disastrous damage to the business and culture.. Those types of people decisions linger around in one's head for a long time.
#08_advice-questions - October 27, 2025 at 07:05 PM
Would be useful to have a webinar or training on the topic. I'm focused on college reslife and most of my approach has been direct cold outreach and attending reslife admin/RA conferences
#local-austin - September 16, 2025 at 02:43 PM
@Ola George
#local-austin - September 16, 2025 at 02:43 PM
The first place I would start is LinkedIn, and connecting there. Then I would follow up by simply calling their main office (the small regional ones make it pretty accessible). Then just ask to speak with the owner about an opportunity with AI. The other approach is to show up at one of the businesses and build a relationship with ones of the managers at the location, and go from there. The other approach which might be far more effective is to attend industry conferences/trade shows where you will essentially find the key decision makers all in one place.
#local-austin - September 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
@Ola George I think for smaller restaurants or local chains, it’s best to just contact the owner directly. Talk about the pain point you’re addressing - and how you’re going to help them make more money. You want to reduce the risk for them as much as possible, so I would suggest doing a small scale pilot at one location to run the experiment. More importantly, it’s always best to tell them you want to build the product with them, and doing a free pilot will help you build the best product. Once you get user data and good outcomes, you can start thinking about pricing analysis and a strategy to grow. This anchor pilot will become your launchpad and testimonial to expand to other potential clients. This space in particular is very relationship driven, so choose local places (ie, Kerbey Lane, Tarka, etc)
#01_introductions - April 03, 2025 at 03:00 PM
So happy to see you here!
#08_advice-questions - November 21, 2024 at 03:48 PM
nope1
#02_general - May 21, 2024 at 08:04 PM
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#06_social - October 03, 2023 at 08:27 PM
Hey @ feel free to DM and we can figure out a plan!
#02_general - September 28, 2023 at 08:33 PM
Thank you for the highlight, @Brian Lee! Appreciate your support and the opportunity to be a part of this amazing community!
#01_introductions - June 14, 2023 at 05:30 PM
Thank you, @Brian Lee ! Excite to join the team and journey at Gildre !