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The Investors Guide to SXSW 2019

Austin Startup

Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. We will announce the winner of the Artificial Intelligence Technologies category at the SXSW Pitch Awards Ceremony on Sunday, March 10th at 6:30pm in Salon H on the 6th floor of the Hilton Hotel. Come check out tech through a military lens.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? The first and primary role of a government is to provide basic public goods competently. To the extent that the government fails to do that, it will retard job creation.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

Up and Running

The cost: it’s much more profitable for traditional lenders to do a two million dollar loan, or a three million dollar loan than doing a $150,000 loan or $100,000 loan. It’s a really great way to get funded from an angel perspective, and also get introductions to that angel group. Hopefully that does. Scott: Okay.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Angel Investors Angels are individual rich people. Infact, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are tobelong to a group.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Turns out my network (of politicos and do-gooders) is not one of accredited tech investors (meaning they meet income and net wealth thresholds and choose to make investments at all, and specifically in startups). I’m a wild-eyed, competitive founder with totally unique-to-tech expertise in this area. So, we worked to raise capital.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group.