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What does it mean to be Latinx in Tech Today?

Austin Startup

Our imagination is bounded by our experience,” Hector shared, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to being able to imagine things properly. Blended Sense matches the right creative teams to the right projects so they can produce and distribute content, like photos and videos, quickly. Josh Alballero with IOOGO.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn - Why Not Affiliates?

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Deborah has interest from Whole Foods and some other grocery stores to build such greenhouses near their distribution centers. Finally, we had a discussion on Adam's proposal to sell 20% of his equity for $50,000, which I thought was preposterous. This is a greenhouse technology to grow fresh agricultural produce. Photo by ilco.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

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Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. The information is based on part of a confidential year-end 2011 investment report distributed to investors in a fund-of-funds that made commitments between 1999 and 2001. Providence Equity Partners IV (2000): 198% (186%).

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. UT Austin, UT Dallas, and Baylor University are top ranked as well. Texas dominates every top ten list.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

ReadWriteStart

Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game.

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Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

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Raymond has built a nice business through efficient distribution deals and will do about $250,000 in revenue this year. He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game.