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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). Global and Local.

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A review of the first eleven Techstars Unicorns

David Cohen

Twilio became a popular perk for Techstars companies globally over the years and many other Techstars portfolio companies use the product extensively. The company is based in San Francisco, with significant operations in Africa and elsewhere. #5: That accelerator was in San Antonio , Texas in partnership with Rackspace.

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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. 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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Capital Factory Doubles Down on Houston

Austin Startup

Startups in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio shouldn’t need to move to Austin to scale. that’s a full third of our deal flow in our first full year of operation. Increasing bridges between Texas’ major tech ecosystems in Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio has enormous synergistic value.

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Rackspace Appoints Taylor Rhodes as its Chief Customer Officer

SiliconHills

Taylor Rhodes is the first Chief Customer Officer at Rackspace Hosting, based in San Antonio. In that role, Rhodes will lead the company’s sales and support operations globally. San Antonio' He formerly served as senior vice president and managing director of Rackspace International.

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How CareerPlug Saved 25 Days of Work with Chargify Business Intelligence

Austin Startup

Chargify, the leading billing platform for B2B SaaS, announced today the massive productivity improvements and decrease in operating costs that CareerPlug has achieved using its new Chargify Business Intelligence product. This saves our operations and finance teams hours of manual work each week. and Canada.

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The Trouble With Non-tech Cofounders | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com

My experience: I exited my last company, an award-winning B2B telecoms operator, and knew that I wanted to build a SaaS product. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. Powered by Personforce.