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. In 2018 and 2019, we connected together all four cities with staff, programming and a Texas-wide mentor network.

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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. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? Joe Lonsdale. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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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

MARCH 1, 2018

Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. Now everybody has an event the Thursday before, but you can tell your friends that you go to the original!

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Austin Startup

MAY 8, 2019

Here are the problems: Better AR/VR network optimization and data compression technologies There is a need for network optimization and data compression technologies to ensure delivery of scalable AR/VR capabilities with low-latency to no latency, on a distributed and global basis, even in bandwidth and computationally-constrained environments.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). In fact, cities represent some of the earliest network effects.

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