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Meet our Startup Chica Committee Members

Austin Startup

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Paulina speaks both English and Spanish fluently due to being in primary and grade schools in both Colombia and the U.S.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. Where it stops being cool is when gifted and courted developers face outdated infrastructures and the attitude of large Valley corporates. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference

Steve Blank

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. After a demo, if you knew what a VCR was you knew what a TiVo was. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses. You got it.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. They were envious. Let me explain. You felt invincible.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

There are moments like being on stage when your demo crashes, reading about your competitors raising a ton of cash or having one of your top team members resign that test your will. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. They were envious. Let me explain. You felt invincible.

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A Look at Responsive CSS Frameworks

blog.teamtreehouse.com

All of the frameworks above had a breakpoint that changed layouts to one column for browser widths under 768 pixels — except for Responsive Grid System (Graham Miller), whose breakpoint was at 480px; Toast, 700px; and Ingrid, which only had “breakpoint examples” in a demo file. Full frameworks. Learn More. Ben Gremillion.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! Want to schedule demo?” And if someone’s interested, they can enter an email address, look for an open time on one of our rep’s calendars, and book a demo, all inside of the chat window. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.