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How Kip Lewis of Austin, Texas Found Success After Failure

The Startup Magazine

Austin, Texas, USA downtown skyline. Since that time, Kip Lewis has repeated the process with more than 2,000 other RV and mobile home parks in and around Austin, Texas. Kip Lewis on Operating a Business during a Worldwide Crisis. Kip Lewis was one of the first business owners in the Austin metropolitan area to make this move.

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An Austin Primer for Female Entrepreneurs— Follow These Leaders & Join These Groups

Austin Startup

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. but more importantly there’s a community that wants to support and see others succeed. In that spirit, I want to share some of my top resources for female entrepreneurs in Austin?—?the What does that look like?

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What we learned from the first week of Uber & Lyft returning to Austin

Austin Startup

by Andy Tryba & Marisa Goldenberg Ridesharing in Austin got even more interesting on Memorial Day as Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a statewide regulation framework overruling local Austin rules. In just one week — Fare, the #3 player in the market, closed up shop in Austin.

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Hear This From SXSW: Community Rules!

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: March 27, 2018 Humans crave community. In March 2018, SXSW content approached this issue from multiple angles, including taking a look at the lessons from a female-driven community, the importance of building team spirit and the impact of a very, very early online community.

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The Austin Startup Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

Austin Startup

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.

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Will Austin build transformative high-bandwidth applications?

Austin Startup

Unique grant opportunity to use the gigabit internet to solve community challenges Last Thursday, Austin City Council voted unanimously to accept $145,000 in grant funding as part of US Ignite’s Smart Gigabit Communities Program. Next steps First up is the Reverse Pitch Competition.

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Vote Local, Austin: 18 SXSW panels featuring Austinites that deserve your PanelPicker vote

Austin Startup

Support the ATX Startup Community by voting for this selection of panels featuring Austinites. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. Once submitted, the community is allowed to chime in and vote on what topics capture their interest. We reached out to the M.io

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