Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. The problem: El Paso is a hot real estate market with lots of young people and families seeking homes on the cheap. For example, PARE fixes and flips homes in the El Paso real estate market. For instance, in 2018, Trulia ranked El Paso in the top five hottest real estate markets out of 100 of the country’s most populated metropolitan areas. MORE

Daniel Echavarria, Director of The Lab Miami, and CEO of El Paso Advisors. The HBS Club of South Florida is hosting me at a panel discussion on “Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices”, Monday, June 17, 2013, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, at Greenburg Traurig, 333 SE 2nd Avenue, 44th Floor, Miami, FL 331312. Click here to register. The rest of the panel: 1. Juan Pablo Cappello, Principal Shareholder of Greenburg Traurig and investor in over 25 start-ups. MORE

Latinitas Austin and El Paso chapters together at last for our strategic planning session with IBM. In 2012, IBM graciously provided a $6,500 super server to connect our two program bases in Austin and El Paso. Coffee and pink cake helped with the process. If you looked at just the business pages in American newspapers, you’d think corporations working with nonprofits and delivering global responsibility was a new trend. MORE

Blackstone Group has expanded their signature Blackstone Launchpad entrepreneurship program from Austin and Dallas to include El Paso, Midland/Odessa, Houston/Galveston, San Antonio, and the Rio Grand Valley. Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. MORE

Daniel Echavarria, Director of The Lab Miami, and CEO of El Paso Advisors. The HBS Club of South Florida is hosting me at a panel discussion on “Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices”, Monday, June 17, 2013, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM, at Greenburg Traurig, 333 SE 2nd Avenue, 44th Floor, Miami, FL 331312. Click here to register. The rest of the panel: 1. Juan Pablo Cappello, Principal Shareholder of Greenburg Traurig and investor in over 25 start-ups. MORE

Photo Courtesy: Birdman of El Paso on Flickr. Yes, I would love to get a chance to meet with everyone of you someday. But that is not the point of this article. Everyone of us needs time with ourselves regularly – sort of “Meet with Me” time. The need is higher at this day and age. MORE

Take for instance, Joe Lewandowski , who in 1983 was in the process of acquiring a 300-acre landfill in New Mexico, when he saw the first of nine truckloads arrive from El Paso, Texas. With the bright lights of Las Vegas reflecting in his rearview mirror, Keith Ferguson listened to his wife, Cheryl, who was convincing him to finally start his own business. “Why don’t you do it? Just do it,” he remembers her saying. MORE

Please help us spread the word to entrepreneurs in Fort Worth, Plano, Cedar Park, Round Rock, San Marcos, Sealy, Amarillo, Brownsville, El Paso and other Texas cities where it’s not convenient to attend in person. It’s been more than a year since we a launched the Texas Startup Manifesto and six months since we opened our Dallas office in partnership with The DEC ?—?and and it’s going great! MORE