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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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He grew up in Colombia, South America. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup. Technical founder. It was all technical.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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As a Jewish person I know something about this scapegoating because it is the history of my people for 2,000+ years including the Pogroms in Eastern Europe that cause my family to escape using fake passports and wind up in South America (Colombia) in search of a better life. It was widely discussed at the Upfront Summit for a reason.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Cove.tool

Austin Startup

The software product grew from tools and processes developed by Pattern r+d, a sustainability consulting firm run by Cove.tool co-founders Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson (both building scientists and architects). Based in Atlanta (which has been named the best city in the U.S.

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12 Top Picks: Austin Startup Week on Oct 12

Austin Startup

Building Your Business on Open Source Data 10:00 am at Galvanize Featuring Data.world co-founder and CTO Bryon Jacob, this panel will explore the increasingly important role of open source data science in the startup economy. Why do these communities matter? How can you leverage open source data science tools to build your business?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.

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What Does it Mean to be American? Why Trump is Just a Blip on the Radar

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Our most famous current rocket entrepreneur — Elon Musk — was from South Africa. The co-founder of Google wasn’t born in America nor was the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, WhatsApp, Yahoo! and the founder of eBay and many others. And what of our most revered tech founder — Steve Jobs?