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The Austin State of Entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

Thousands of entrepreneurs, programmers and designers gather day and night, in-person and online for meetups, classes and coworking. With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas and Houston, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers.

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Perot Jain steps up to support Dallas entrepreneurs

Austin Startup

Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. We are glad that Capital Factory is in Dallas and thrilled to see that they are also community builders who grow through collaboration.”

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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

He explains that this phenomenon spans from something minor such as people not pronouncing your name correctly, to the way people in the Rio Grande Valley won’t have the same experiences or opportunities as those in Dallas. They offer a modern, simpler way to design and bring your dream home to life. Gregg Alvarez with Myhouseby.

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Female Founders! Pitch for a Fast Track into Capital Factory with a $100,000 Investment

Austin Startup

Just some of the winners include thriving Texas startups like Syzygy Plasmonics (Houston), Shearshare (Dallas), Groupraise (Houston), Journey Foods (Austin), Easy Expunctions (San Antonio), Mynd VR (Dallas), ZPEG (Austin), YouGoNatural (Dallas), and Senseye (Austin). million Series A round. million in funding. Female Founders!

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Customers?

Austin Startup

More broadly, Austin-based companies can theoretically serve an area of more than 5 million people if you throw Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio into the mix. Moreover, businesses in Dallas and Houston are both within a driving radius. For several years in a row, Austin has ranked #1 in the US for growing a small business.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It came from an amazing small startup in McKinney, Texas (30 miles North of Dallas) called NewToy , which they acquired. Think the next big startup can’t come from Dallas, TX? It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. Didn’t come out of the SF facility. Think again. Angry Birds?

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$100,000 Dallas Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge in partnership with DivInc

Austin Startup

In August we released the Texas Startup Manifesto and announced our plans to expand our Accelerator program to include Dallas with a presence at The DEC. Many of the most successful entrepreneurs in Texas have banded together to give one startup from Dallas with a diverse executive team a $100,000 investment to try and change the world.

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