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Thank you to the Austin Technology Incubator at UT Austin for creating the Austin startup scene as…

Austin Startup

Thank you to the Austin Technology Incubator at UT Austin for creating the Austin startup scene as we know it! This is no exaggeration: Austin’s startup community would not have taken off without the solid foundation laid by the Austin Technology Incubator , the longest running active tech incubator in the United States. thank you ATI.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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‘The Future of Everything’: Chicago Booth’s Annual Conference, SeedCon

The Startup Magazine

Launched in 1999, SeedCon is a student-run entrepreneurship and venture capital conference at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; the conference is co-hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club alongside the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Event Focus.

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9 Tips to Increase Profit NOW from Leading E-Commerce and Online Retail Experts

Mike Michalowicz

The continual innovation of technology and product can provide infinite scalability for an Online Retailer. Nathan Huppatz, an online retail trailblazer, has learnt a lot since he began back in 1999. Throughout his online career, he has always looked to technology to optimize and problem solve. It’s a great business leveler.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

I was chair of NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I’d made after selling Feld Technologies (my first company). We all started working with SoftBank as affiliates (along with Rich Levandov). I met Jerry in 1995. Jerry became partners with Fred Wilson and they started Flatiron Partners.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

Liron – I’ve been in the online marketing scene since 1999, in the last six years has been involved in the online software vertical in the context of affiliate marketing. VC Cafe: Can you tell me a little about the technology you’ve used to build the service? I invested in quite a few other startups.