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

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. San Diego has Qualcomm.

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2017 Diversity Data for Capital Factory

Austin Startup

We highlight progressive startups and scaleups who are “doing it right” like Aceable and WP Engine. 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 organize Blacks in Tech and Women in Tech summits.

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The Top 5 Members of your Startup Team

Austin Startup

Your Architect, for example can involve two people: front-end and back-end engineers (how it looks and how it works, respectively). The Top 5 Members of your Startup Team was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. in English.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. For decades, Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio have been on all of the “Top 10 Places for…” lists. It all starts with people?—?talent.

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Houston Startups can Pitch for a $50,000 Venture 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), MyndVR (Dallas), ZPEG (Austin), Grain4Grain (San Antonio), and Senseye (Austin).

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What is a CTO?

Austin Startup

They will draw from their expert perspective and are capable of applying a broader spectrum of experience across many technologies as they help you plan your engineering process and culture. We facilitate Design Sprints in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco. What is a CTO?

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Now Any Accredited Investor Can Invest in Texas Startups with Capital Factory and AngelList

Austin Startup

With boots on the ground in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, we meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to investors, employees, mentors and customers.