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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

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. For decades, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been on all of the “Top 10 Places for…” lists. Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer.

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Capital Factory Center for Defense Innovation Year One Success Stories

Austin Startup

Capital Factory community members won awards from: Air Force Army Navy Special Operations Defense Innovation Unit NSF NASA Department of Energy DARPA Intelligence Community Programs and contract vehicles included SBIR, OTAs, AFWERX challenges, AAL’s Capabilities Accelerator, xTech Search, and even a few subcontracts.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Free is Not a Business Model

ReadWriteStart

Giving stuff for free is a dangerous game, and it is difficult to sustain operations that have large numbers of free users. You then become dependent on outside financing, and that is a slippery slope. Seshu has already started operations in Dallas and Houston as well as launched in the Bay Area. I said, no.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Redfin specifically identifies Denver, San Antonio, and Houston as the next hubs newer generations will seek out. (I Will folks be able to buy a house and raise their families here?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. This lead to me needing to find a new career, and fast! 21- Master my own destiny.

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Promotions, Opportunities and Gratitude for 2019

Austin Startup

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. in line with the Texas Startup Manifesto the team that he manages is distributed across the state with members in Austin, Dallas and Houston. However, Bryan isn’t just focused on Dallas?—?in

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[Singapore] Far East Organization Unveils New SOHO Brand And Property

YoungUpstarts

. “We are proud to introduce a new era of SOHO-living, and an integrated lifestyle concept in Singapore where living, leisure, working and connectivity converge in one address,” says Chia Boon Kuah, Chief Operating Officer, Property Sales and Executive Director of Far East Organization. ” Small Office, Home Office.

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