Austin Startup
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Since at least 2007, Austin has been the fastest growing metro area in America. But something has in fact fundamentally changed about Austin over the decades, and new Austinites should be as familiar with these changes as longtime residents.
SiliconHills
AUGUST 1, 2013
The company, founded in 2007 by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, has more than 175 million customers. Dropbox, based in San Francisco, plans to open its second U.S. office in Austin and is hiring. The Austin office will focus on Dropbox’s growing business base, according to this post. The company has raised $257 million and [.]
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YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
The 2007 housing crisis, hitting Florida around October of 2008, completely ruined my early retirement and my real estate business, stealing away 16 of my 17 properties. With that crash, I made the decision to move my family to Houston, Texas. However, God had other plans. It was the worst housing crash in the history of America!
Hearpreneur
JUNE 14, 2015
Jessica Houston Enterprises is a women’s empowerment business that provides personal and professional development training. Thanks to Dr. Jessica Houston, Jessica Houston Enterprises ! Our mission is to help our clients identify and address the obstacles that have been holding their success hostage. 8) I found nothing.
Duct Tape Marketing
JUNE 15, 2011
Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.
Austin Startup
MAY 14, 2019
One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! - If you put up walls, there’s no point. Why are people in the same space?”
Ben's Blog
APRIL 7, 2021
A more recent incarnation of this is the 2007 development of ARPA-E, designed to fund basic science related to advanced energy technologies. NASA in Houston; SLAC and Lawrence Livermore labs in California). The federal government has also played the role of “kingmaker” in where important grants and contracts go.
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