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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they

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Why This New York Venture Capital Firm is Investing in Canada

David Teten

The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Additionally, the Canadian government has significantly more rational immigration policies for foreign entrepreneurs than America, encouraging talented people globally to come to Canada. We are aware of only one other U.S. now BlackBerry Ltd.,

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. Not all VCs are equal.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

The Group is worth noting for: Investing their own private money, Reid Dennis would found Institutional Venture Partners in 1974 First group specifically investing in the valley’s electronics industry SBIC Act of 1958 During the cold war the launch of Sputnik-1 by the Soviet Union in 1957 both traumatized and galvanized the United States.