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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She attended Full Sail University in Winter Park, FL to learn about art and design for video games.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I believe a bubble occurs when a market is willing to pay greater than intrinsic value for an asset class. That asset class need not represent the broader market.

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Fighting an Asymmetrical Cyber War– Why We Need to Take A Different Approach

Pascal's View

… An apparently perfect device can provide a safe harbor for numerous threats– in the form of old and vulnerable chip designs, Trojan horses, or kill switches– that are difficult or impossible to detect.” networks, an approach that is very different from the current path that the U.S. is following. “ WESLEY K.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Transcript of How Reducing Friction Increases Revenue

Duct Tape Marketing

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. And you say, well why would a business design an interface that would only let me look at the last six months? On my Internet provider, I can only go back six months. Now that makes no sense.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Last year was the most active year for IPOs in the United States since 2000. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market you plan to attack. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

alexpoole.info

User experience design and research. Case study: Icon design. Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Alex Poole. Site français. Skip to content.