Happy New Year, Friends!

We're excited to host Austin founder and up-and-comer Sterling Smith this month to kick off the new year

Sterling is currently a Founding Partner at two technology companies based in Austin, Texas; Keystoke, Inc., and SandBox Commerce.

Keystoke is a software development agency and design studio that believes that if it takes longer than 6 weeks to build than it's probably not a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and SandBox Commerce is a SaaS Platform that delivers scalable mobile apps designed specifically for brands and retail to increase customers engaged from product discovery to checkout.

Over the last 10 years, Sterling has worked for Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, Lockheed Martin in Doha, Qatar, Booz Allen Hamilton in Washington, DC and Hitachi Consulting in Austin, Texas. Sterling was awarded 'Austinpreneur of the Year' in 2015 by the local Chamber and currently serves as Google's Code 2040 Entrepreneur In Residence. He is also an Advisor & Mentor to over half a dozen technology startups throughout the country and was recently featured on The Pitch Podcast.