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Real! October 13 Deadline For Fake Essays

Austin Startup

Put together a 2000-word essay that answers this question to be part of the 2018 David Carr Prize at SXSW. All received essays are judged by SXSW staff, as well as an Advisory Board that is unique to this competition. So, in the future, how do you understand what is real and what is fake?

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

The collapse of the Internet bubble was not kind to us and by 2005 it was clear that our second fund – raised in 1999 – was a disaster, and our third fund – raised in 2000 – was off to a very rocky start. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s.

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