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Learn your Austin ABC’s and become a local super-connector

Austin Startup

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Personal Technology. What They Know.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

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Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

I just knew that subscription-based dial-up services like CompuServe and America Online, and the one I’d been working on at Apple, eWorld , could potentially distribute information in far more powerful ways than what you could do with books, TV, and other traditional forms of media. It was 1999. You just started building.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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Fixing Tech – A Manifesto from a Raving Capitalist

Start Up Blog

After the Dot Com crash of 1999, most yet-to-be-disrupted big firms got back to business. But this didn’t stop the Government having the courage back then to take it and put the industry in public hands. The truth is the mixed economy model is what has provided the greatest distribution of wealth the world has ever seen.