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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Hear from venture investors and successful entrepreneurs to find out what factors they considered and how you can make your pitch stand out from the rest. Indigo Room Featured Speaker: Whitney Wolfe Herd As Founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney Wolfe Herd helms one of the fastest-growing social networks in the world.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Some of these businesses are still with us, including Google and the social media behemoth Facebook. Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Producer Rick Rubin started the Def Jam record label back in 1984 in his dorm room at New York University.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

Less than a month later, we received a term sheet from Charles River Ventures for the Series A and as they say, the rest is financing history.with investments from Intel, Kleiner Perkins, Cisco, GE, Comcast, ADT, Rogers, and others. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? 3 hours ago.