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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the 2023 Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

The first step is to collect data on how businesses are affecting their communities and the environment. 13- Sustainability and ethical investing Photo Credit: Zach Larsen I'm really excited to see how technology will continue to shape the personal finance space in 2023. Thanks to Austin Armstrong, Socialty Pro ! #15-

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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. SXSW Edu Intro to the Austin Startup Scene at Capital Factory. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so so here are some of my picks that might stand out from the crowd.

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HOT? Yes. And by the way I’m talking about Hotel Occupancy Tax

Austin Startup

On a balmy August morning last week, community and tech leaders populated a long conference room table at Capital Factory and listened to Mayor Adler passionately articulate the Downtown Puzzle which includes the expansion of the Austin Convention Center. Municipal financing is tricky. So what are we talking about here?

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. Tushar moved to Austin and joined VersaSuite after graduation.

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Finding an Affordable Commercial Space, a Business Partner & Community in Austin, TX

Austin Startup

By Kristina Modares If you’ve lived in East Austin for a while, you may remember passing the yellow abandoned building pictured below. When I started my search to find an office space in Austin, I was a bit overwhelmed at the costs associated with it. That’s how we came up with the name “ Open House Austin.”

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