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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

Texas has 4 of the 11 largest cities in the United States and they are all within driving distance of each other. Texas is the most promising technology investment opportunity in the United States and Capital Factory is going to turbocharge it. I believe it will take all of Texas working together. Texas cities are diverse.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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Our Investment in Expressable: A Different Kind of Digital Speech Company

View from Seed

Founded by Leanne Sherred, Nick Barbara, and Spencer Magloff, Expressable is based in Austin, Texas and offers virtual access to synchronous speech language pathology (SLP) services combined with asynchronous support and personalized learning curriculum. NextView is proud to have co-led Expressable’s $4.5

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

Austin Startup

the Connectors, Angels, Venture Capitalists, Founders, Professors, Hackers, Press… and the Legends. Find the Connectors , the Angels , the Venture Capitalists , the Founders , the Professors , the Hackers , and the Legends you need to meet and get some hints about the best ways to meet them. Here is your COVID-friendly cheat sheet.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

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Our Investment in Expressable: A Different Kind of Digital Speech Company

View from Seed

Founded by Leanne Sherred, Nick Barbara, and Spencer Magloff, Expressable is based in Austin, Texas and offers virtual access to synchronous speech language pathology (SLP) services combined with asynchronous support and personalized learning curriculum. NextView is proud to have co-led Expressable’s $4.5

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas.