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9 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Business They are Starting Next Year

Hearpreneur

2- Expanding into Texas. Next year, I am expanding my already successful business into Texas. 5- Project-based multimedia designing. My 2020 layoff as a Multimedia Designer was both a heartbreak and a lightbulb moment. People want more life per square foot not cost. Thanks to Lori Cheek, Cheekd ! #2-

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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The resume is not only well written in fluent English but also often has a much better visual design than you see from real candidates! We’ve seen lots of resumes that show universities in Texas, Florida, and Arizona. I distinctly remember one candidate saying that he grew up in Texas, but the whole time he pronounced Texas as Tex-ASS.

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

Capital Factory has been the most active early stage investor in Texas since 2010, investing in hundreds of startups and collecting more than $100 million in pre-emptive investment rights to invest in hundreds more. it has been decades in the making.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Joe Lonsdale.

Texas 90
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Two Clean Energy Incubators Launched in Texas

Austin Startup

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) are announcing a program to launch two new clean energy incubators at Texas universities. This program is designed to help university commercialization programs and/or existing university incubators create dedicated clean energy incubators.

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Don’t Follow The Buzzwords For Small Business Technology

YoungUpstarts

Rather than focusing on technology as a cost centre, businesses should regard it as an innovation centre. If an IT investment does not increase productivity, drive sales, makes a company more efficient, reduce costs or opens up bigger markets, then it is incurring costs that are actually reducing profits.

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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. For starters, it’s worth pointing out that Texas is an oil state. Namely, windfall revenue from oil means that the Texas taxman does not collect personal or corporate income taxes (on the state level).