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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. Nereyda loves to travel and has been lucky enough to live, work and study abroad in Europe and Latin America.

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[US][Competition] U.S. Chamber of Commerce DREAM BIG Small Business Of The Year Award 2012

YoungUpstarts

These small business are each a shining example of the power of free enterprise and the opportunities it can create for America’s doers and dreamers. Each of the finalists will be honored for contributing to America’s economy while driving growth and creating job opportunities in their respective locations. Donohue, U.S.

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Debating the Tech Bubble with Steve Blank: Part I

Ben's Blog

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x. The internet is working.

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Top 20 U.S. Tech Conferences Every Startup And SMB Should Check Out

YoungUpstarts

By attending, you’ll make connections with 80+ of the world’s top social media pros (plus 2000 of your peers) and you’ll discover amazing ideas that’ll transform your social media marketing. AppsWorld North America. Attend the world’s largest social media marketing conference of the year! Craze Conference.

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Top 10 Tips For Female Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

by Annie Jie Xu, General Manager of Alibaba.com , Americas. Some people dream of global domination, while others would prefer a smaller operation which brings them a healthy income. Annie Jie Xu is the general manager of Alibaba.com Americas, responsible for the operation of the American office located in Santa Clara, California.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002.

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

Pascal's View

” While they do not mention it explicitly, the authors clearly are calling attention to the flawed logic behind the United States’ Trusted Foundry program, which is based on the assumption that only IC’s fabricated on U.S. With 17% or less of the global semiconductor fabrication infrastructure physically in the U.S.,