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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Houston is fourth, San Antonio seventh, Dallas ninth, Austin eleventh, and Fort Worth thirteenth. Lockheed Martin is building the F-35 aircraft in Fort Worth. Texas is a leader in oil & gas but also in renewable energy. Texas is a powerhouse Texas has five of the 13 largest cities in the country by population.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

The employee picks a provider from a plan picked by the employer from the insurance carrier. This is then sent though the employer to the employee. Now the employee is exposed to the price for the very first time, and told the price was too high, but guess what — this is after the work is already done. In the U.S.

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Branching out: Why you shouldn’t limit your startup to just one location

The Next Web

And they’re starting early, with many having first opened their secondary offices in the 30 to 50 employee range. While I can’t say this is totally representative of technology startups in general, I do think geographically distributed footprints are rapidly becoming the norm. FieldAware now have an office in Fort Worth.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

As a boon to the Israeli market’s future stability, the Bank of Israel approved a new law that specifies price stability as the central bank’s primary goal, forms a board of directors with a majority of members who are not bank employees, and creates a six-member committee to set interest rates. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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