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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. Sadly, this diversity is not present in the job market, politics, in leadership positions in general.It

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Thanks to Keith Terrell, Backpacks Global ! #14- Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl !

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Visit to Case Foundation and Startup America

David Teten

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. We look for leadership, collaboration, and innovation.

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[Review] Out-Executing The Competition

YoungUpstarts

It’s no surprise then that many of those lessons in his book “ Out-Executing the Competition ” revolve around leadership, although there’s also plenty about business strategy, business transformation and the need for communication.

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[Review] The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

YoungUpstarts

Part self help book, part fable, “ The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny ” by leadership guru Robin Sharma is a slim volume that packs powerful life and leadership lessons in the form of a novel.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. billion was invested in 866 deals. ” for more industry statistics, CLICK HERE.

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