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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End of Year Update

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Breyer Capital Austin?—?End End of Year Update After officially announcing Breyer Capital Austin earlier this year after two years of active planning and due diligence, I received a humbling number of gracious emails and messages from Austin-based leaders, entrepreneurs, executives, and investors.

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Silicon Valley VC Firm Breyer Capital Opens an Austin Office

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Breyer Capital has announced plans to open a new office in Austin. The Silicon Valley-based venture capital and private equity firm, founded in 2006, is already an investor in Austin-based OJO Labs and Swivel. “I The post Silicon Valley VC Firm Breyer Capital Opens an Austin Office appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Oracle Moves its Headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas

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Oracle is moving its headquarters from Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas. “We We recently announced that Oracle is implementing a more flexible employee work location policy and has changed its Corporate Headquarters from Redwood Shores, California to Austin, Texas,” according to a statement from the company. “We

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Silicon Valley Will Suffer a Shameful Legacy for Introducing Inequality to the Great Equalizer

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Silicon Valley — another American racist/sexist shithole just like the Segregated South When the Internet first came around in the mid-1990s, it was herald as “The Great Equalizer” where anybody with a keyboard can start an e-commerce shop, publish their works and reach the world to millions who are also attached to the Internet.

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Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Could Ripple Through the Economy and Impact Austin Tech Startups

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The Silicon Valley Bank failure can have downstream consequences depending on how the government responds to it, said Mark Cuban, billionaire tech entrepreneur. The rich people got wiped out already,” Cuban said at a South by Southwest panel discussion Sunday morning. What’s at stake is the depositor.

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

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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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Paradromics Moved from Silicon Valley to Austin and is Creating a Brain Modem

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By LAURA LOREKPublisher of Silicon Hills News Imagine a nickel-sized device implanted in the brain to help treat chronic and severe mental disorders like schizophrenia, which affect how a person thinks, feels and behaves. It’s not science fiction but a real device that is being developed in Austin.