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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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10 Famous People Who Flourished After Being Laid Off

YoungUpstarts

Billionaire businessman and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t reach this level of success without failing a little here and there. In 1997, Armstrong was fired from the French racing team Cofidis while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Michael Bloomberg. Lance Armstrong.

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Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Securing Capital: Innovative Financing Options for Today’s Startups

ReadWriteStart

Originally introduced in 1997 by the British progressive rock band Marillion, this means of acquiring capital has surged in popularity, and for good reason. Not only does this help facilitate securing the capital, but it also helps safeguard them from exorbitant interest rates or having only a limited amount of resources. Crowdfunding.

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Top 10 Podcasts To Become a More Well-Rounded Human

Austin Startup

The Moth The gist: “The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad.

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Entrepreneur Creates a Technologically Savvy Daycare Model

Hearpreneur

My wife Julia and I founded the company as Rainbow Academy in 1997. In 2011, the company began franchising in an effort to expand beyond our New Jersey footprint. Other key growth areas are Southern NJ (Philly suburbs), Eastern Pennsylvania, New York City and Long Island.

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Publicity Stunts: When Good Ideas Go Bad

crowdSPRING Blog

But, as Murphy’s law dictates, when something can go wrong, it will and it happened that the temperature shot up into the 80s in New York City that day. Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop.

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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.