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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

More broadly, Austin-based companies can theoretically serve an area of more than 5 million people if you throw Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio into the mix. Moreover, businesses in Dallas and Houston are both within a driving radius. For several years in a row, Austin has ranked #1 in the US for growing a small business.

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Servant Leadership In Action

YoungUpstarts

We can’t sit in Dallas, Texas, and write a rule for every single scenario you’re going to run into. When I think of servant leadership I think of Pat Summitt, my basketball coach at the University of Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. Not only do we serve and care about our people, but we empower them to use common sense and good judgment.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Sevin Rosen in Dallas launched the next year and throughout the 1980s and 1990s the two firms vied for their place in the Texas market. Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001.

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Austin’s Entrepreneurial Landscape

Austin Startup

states for fastest growth in the number of women-owned businesses — a number that grew by 98 percent between 1997 and 2014. We must point out that a big part of what makes Austin such a thriving hub is the fact that it’s in the middle of Texas.Texas ranks number 2 among U.S.