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

Austin Startup

He launched his first startup to bring the first cell phone technology onto the battlefield in Afghanistan. They operate multiple investment funds focused on industry verticals like Real Estate, Consumer or CPG and on under-represented founders such as Women and People of Color.

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part III: The Most Important.

Steve Blank

He was forced in to an internal exile to Groky (Nizhnij Novgorod) – a major industrial city closed to foreigners – about 300 mi east of Moscow in 1980 following his public protests against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He was allowed to return to Moscow in Feb 1987 – AFTER Reykjavik. (I