Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

CF merges with Station Houston and is the first member of The Ion with Rice University and Houston Exponential. Startups in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio shouldn’t need to move to Austin to scale. one from Austin, one from Houston, and one from Dallas. It’s working?—?40

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

I also couldn’t be happier that friends from Silicon Valley like Joe Lonsdale, Drew Houston, and Elon Musk have also moved here. Even during this global pandemic, I’ve found ways to reconnect with old friends here in Austin and Texas. For example, we just announced our Mark Benioff co-investment in Richard Socher’s You.com.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Drew Houston. Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Panel with Joshua Baer The Texas Startup Manifesto is call to action to connect Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the rest of the state into a Texas Startup Megatropolis, unlocking billions of dollars in capital and unleashing thousands of diverse entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists would say that a portfolio that has one grand slam, and 99 failures, can still be profitable — that’s the economics from chasing whales. We’ll also have copies of my book (all proceeds from sales will go to Entrepreneurs for Houston, a group of entrepreneurs rebuilding another great city post-Harvey).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“When I asked David Cohen, Co-CEO of Techstars, for some advice on writing the book he suggested a collaboration utilizing the experience of the 1900 companies in the program’s global portfolio?—?we 6: Houston, TX?—? Of course I jumped at the opportunity to collaborate so we can help founders everywhere.” Austin, TX?—?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life. BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase.

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