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

Austin Startup

Colonel) is the Director of the Texas Military Department Joint Innovation Unit, a DARPA and NSIN Fellow, and now leads the Defense Innovation Unit across Texas. Ben previously co-founded Simply Interactive, Chaotic Moon, and Conversable leading all of them to successful exits. The Connectors Alex “STOIKY” Goldberg ( Lt.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

According to Fortune magazine , “For decades, Austin Ventures was more than just the largest and most powerful venture capital firm in Texas. When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas.

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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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SX Startups: wrnch Expands Interaction

Austin Startup

Right now, we are working a “Magic Mirror” demo for the show that allow people to walk up to a huge, 100-foot vertically placed TV and see themselves beamed into cyberspace. Long term, we believe that AR is going to completely change the retail experience. Currently all of the big gains in machine learning use supervised learning.

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Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

Austin Startup

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. The University of Texas in Austin is particularly strong in fundamental research, even if it doesn’t have the track record of MIT or Stanford in commercialising intellectual property. The talent, however, cuts the mustard.

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SXSW Pitch: Applied Bioplastics

Austin Startup

Tell us your favorite thing about being based in in Austin, Texas. This track brings together founders and funders and showcases exciting new companies, products, services, and business models across different verticals and industries. Commit to this or walk away?—?there’s there’s no middle ground that will make you successful.”