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Accelerator Spotlight: Influencer Direct

View from Seed

Long-term: Influencers across the world with 10K+ followers and across all major verticals (e.g. DC: Hi, I’m Dennis and I’m currently living in Dallas, TX. legal, bank accounts, government filings, etc) behind setting up a startup. automotive, home improvement, home & gardening, beauty, health & wellness, etc).

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Joe enthusiastically led Perot Jain’s support for Capital Factory’s Dallas $100,000 Diversity & Inclusion Investment Challenge. As the third U.S.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

SURVIVR (Dallas, TX) Brian Hoang, CEO SURVIVR is a VR training platform to help first responders improve decision-making and response times. Techstars funds all types of startups, working across all verticals, applying all types of business models. Large companies make connections with the best startups to future-proof their business.

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

Austin Startup

Alex has helped bring more than $160 million in funding to Texas startups through SBIR, STTR and other government funding programs for companies like Essentium, ICON 3D, and LIFT Aircraft. Ben lives the Texas Startup Manifesto having lived in Austin and Dallas and with Hypergiant offices in both cities plus Houston.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

I’ll add on one more – are there regional members of David’s team in at least the major markets like Dallas/Fort Worth? I would like to know, what are the areas/vertical they are looking for acquisition? This would make it much easier for smaller start ups to make contact with Google. July 18, 2012 11:30:30.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. My code is running well right now in universities, Fortune 500 companies, mom-and-pop businesses, power utilities, state and national governments, and, yes, a number of successful startups. March 26, 2011 at 9:02 am. The reasoning behind this post is questionable. “Why?”

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

I think it started with eBay, but then we got into more vertical specific ones, like Zillow, Grubhub, OpenTable and Uber that I’m on the board of. I get my healthcare insurance through Vox Media, so I actually don’t know the cost of my healthcare, or the government-. Bill Gurley : Great. Bill Gurley : Oh, absolutely.