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Upcoming NYC family office conferences: Real estate and Blockchain

David Teten

Keynote speakers: Mr. Uri Levin , Co-Founder, Waze; Mr. Michael W. Keynote speakers include: Eric Ly , Co-Founder of LinkedIn (NYC), Alexandre Perrin , head of Richard Branson’s Single Family Office and Virgin Groups’ Blockchain investments (London) and Jack Chen , Inventor of the ATM (Dallas). Register here.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Mellie Price (@mellieprice) | Twitter Heather Brunner CEO WPEngine Heather Brunner is one of the most successful tech CEO’s in Austin’s history, recently raising $250 million in funding from Silver Lake for WP Engine, the leading digital experience platform built on Wordpress.

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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. Despite not having formal coding skills or startup experience, Pamela became a founder by using Facebook as her platform.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

An entrepreneur who brings out innovation and disruption at the same time is highly successful Muhammad Yunus, the founder of microcredit and micro-finance, and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize is an excellent example of a successful entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of the famous Huffington Post and the founder of Thrive Global.

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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

Of our 61 Accelerator startups in 2017, 8% had at least one Black founder, 13% had at least one Female founder, 16% had at least one Asian founder, 21% had at least one LatinX founder. Eugene Sepulveda was co-chair of the LGBTQ Council for President Obama. We need more Women founders getting funded.

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Rise and fall: Three Lessons for Entrepreneurs

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This post is by Scott Edward Walker , the firm's founder and CEO. My father was a good High School student and was accepted for admission at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University , where he studied electrical engineering and paid his way by going ROTC (i.e., If you like it, check out Scott's blog and tweets @ ScottEdWalker.

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Austinites represent at SXSW 2018

Austin Startup

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. 1:30PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.