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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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Connecting the Dots: How New Job Creation, IPO’s, and Venture Capital in America Are Intimately Linked

Pascal's View

The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). government dataset compiled by the U.S. By contrast, in their first year, new firms add an average of 3 million jobs.”. (ii) Census Bureau. ii) Clearing the backlog in the U.S.

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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.