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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Don’t Settle When You Decide Where to Settle

Austin Startup

This will not be a personal essay about that move, which is motivated by family and opportunity, but it does give me reason to address the decision process about where to locate your startup. The leadership centers of the microcomputer world shifted from Albuquerque to the San Fernando Valley (LA), the Bay Area, and Seattle.

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Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com

Want to start a startup? A lot of would-be founders believe that startups either take off or dont. 1 ] Actually startups take off because the founders make them take off. Nearly all startups have to. Stripe is one of the most successful startups weve funded, and the problem they solved was an urgent one.

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