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Out of the Crisis

Startup Lessons Learned

Over the past few weeks, I have recorded a series of conversations with people leading the way out of this mess. I wanted to share the conversations with you, in the hopes that you will do the same. The first conversation is with investor and philanthropist Sam Altman. I’m working on a number of other interviews as we speak.

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Out of the Crisis #2: Mark Cuban on putting people first, the Dallas Mavericks, and what we'll want on the other side

Startup Lessons Learned

You may know him as the owner of the Dallas Mavericks or an investor on Shark Tank. You can listen to our conversation on Apple Podcasts , Google podcasts , or wherever else you like to download podcasts. You can find my conversation with Mark in that format below. Here's my conversation with Mark Cuban.

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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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How To Sell Yourself Without Being “Salesy”

YoungUpstarts

We teamed up with author, speaker, and entrepreneur, Dallas Dance, to go over everything you need to know about how to make an authentic sales pitch about yourself. Dallas Dance is the President and CEO of the DDance Group, Inc., Try turning the conversation around, turning your sales conversation into more of an interview.

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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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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are all more diverse cities than Austin and as a result we’ve added more Black and LatinX founders to the Accelerator. We need more Women and People of Color on the Capital Factory leadership team. Our Texas Startup Manifesto is helping improve diversity at Capital Factory.

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$100,000 Investment Challenge at Black in Tech Summit in Partnership with DivInc

Austin Startup

We’ve had the pleasure of working with DivInc in the past on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Challenges in Austin , Houston , and Dallas. DivInc is a pre-accelerator based in Austin that bridges the gap between underrepresented entrepreneurs and the resources they need to build profitable, high-growth companies.

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